[William]

Nope, they were ripped from a dealer meaning the dealer owned them. If they were still in limbo they would be registered to whomever paid the claim. Since they weren't [I ran the VINs several times] the conclusion is they were recovered and processed through an auction. One of them was used to bash open the gate and may have been scrapped. The VINs were not known until the early '80s so it is possible the others were rebuilt, driven daily for many years and scrapped. Or maybe became race cars-having walked the pits at dragstrips countless times I know there are many 69s with no VIN plate. One of them could easily have been a Merollis ZL1.