You didn't think I had given up on this did ya?
Update:
I'm always thinking of ideas on how to find prior owners, or dealers. However, certain events can make it very difficult. One unfortunate event is when a car is repo'd early in it's life - such is the case with Benjamin's '69 Nova SS.
The last title on record with the PA DMV shows a bank as the owner, that's not good bec/ the bank is gone as is the dealer that they sent it to in order to sell it for them.
One assumption that I'm making is that a bank that repo's a given car would send the car to the dealer that sold the car originally, saving the bank the trouble of selling/auctioning off the car. The dealer that received Benjamin's car within a few days of the bank titling it, was Sunderland Chevrolet in Lemoyne, PA - within miles of the bank which was located in Harrisburg, PA. Sunderland Chevrolet is no longer in business.
So, the next strategy is to find ex-employees, which I did through the help of a guy in New England who is the original owner of a '70 SS Chevelle from Sunderland. I spoke to an ex-salesperson, but didn't get very far. Late last week I was doing some more searching, and found a site showing the political contributions for some Republican campaigns (sorry Schoneye!). One such contributor was named Sunderland who made the contributions in the name of his car dealership, Sun Motor Cars (BMW, Merc.Benz & Porsche) located in the Mechanicsburg, PA area. I confirmed today that the owner of Sun Motor Cars is indeed the previous owner of Sunderland Chevrolet, and that they are willing to research the old Nova and see what they have/recall!
The search continues.....