Frank,
A great story indeed, and I too will look forward to seeing the pictures.
It is very interesting to me about the possibility of Brigance doing transplants. Back in the early 70's, there was a guy named Dave Spencer that worked with me at Caterpillar Tractor Co. Dave had a LeMans blue/bvt 69 Nova SS that was essentially a 'street racer' type car; i.e., it had a 5.13 gear was not driven as everyday transportation. It was a Brigance car and it had a non-stock BBC engine in it. Dave always told the general populace that it was an original 375 hp 396, but he let on to a few close friends that it was a 427, and that he bought it that way. I wound up buying the car in 1976, and at that time it had 13,000 original miles on it. By then the big block had been blown and it had a bone stock 195 hp 283 installed - still with the original 4 speed and the 5.13 gear. My wife drove that car to work for quite a few months and used to get her kicks showing off to the construction workers building Fox Valley Mall as she would bang gears going by them[img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/
[/img] The last time I raced at Oswego Drag Strip was in that Nova, still with the 5.13 rear, where it was wound out in 4th gear long before the end of the 1/4 mile [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img] Eventually I swapped in another rear axle to make it a little more livable. I still have pictures of that car, with the Brigance decal on the trunk lid. Bottom line is, I guess it is a good possibility that this Nova could have been a transplant car, too.