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Thanks for the offer guys - the beer will be on me! I'd love to have a bunch of you guys down here. To Tom's concern - he is correct, I was a real skeptic on this car. Heck - I was the first one to tell everyone that it had the wrong firewall and even posted the cowl vin before I ever bought the car. I even suggested that others might want to run the cowl vin at dmv to track down the story on that car. Well, I inspected the car again and got a statement about the cowl vin car being wrecked (and never re-registered after 1982). Then my skeptisism began to fade. Then I found out that the car was actually inspected about 10 years ago by folks who knew what they were looking for - and they believed the story that the owner gave them at the time about the car having come out of a junkyard. I then found out from the previous owner that the junkyard story was partially true, but the repairs of the car actually occurred in about 1985 using some junkyard parts ("about 7 years prior to 1992" according to the statement). The female owner that was spoken to in about 2000 wasn't the one who did the repaint in about 1995 and, therefore, was just repeating (I believe incorrectly) the story that was passed on to her from the 1992 owner. What remains is for me to find the 1985-1992 owner of #616414. I have a second hand statement, but need first hand. The DMV is working on it - you may not hear much for a while.