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Here is what I know about the car. The first owner purchased it new from White-Allen Chevrolet in Dayton, Ohio. He started converting it into a drag car, circa 1971. However, he died before the project was completed. The second owner, Raymond Morgan, completed the transformation of the car into drag car and raced it from approx 1972 - 1979. He ran it with a 468 Big Block Chevy, a turbo 400, 5.13 rearend gears and 32" tall tires. He raced in the NHRA super street and/or super gas series at Edgewater, Kil-kare, and Tri-State raceways all located in Ohio. In 1978 it was the NHRA Formula Stock Record holder for that area. The following pictures show the various incarnations of the car from 1978 and earlier.

It is believed that the third owner was Tad Petrosky of Dayton Ohio, who raced it up until the early 80's. The fourth owner, Kenneth Lowden of Dayton Ohio, purchased the car on 9/20/2000. Based on the purchased price, it can be assumed that the car was fully intact at that time. The fifth owner, Christopher Tucker of Towanda, NY purchased the car from Kenneth on March 30,2002 in Akron Ohio for $500. The purchase price implies that the engine and nose were stripped from the car before he bought it. It should be noted that Chris is known for his award winning restorations, which have appeared in Hemmings Muscle Car magazine. I'm not sure what it looked like when he got the car, but this is what it looked like when the fifth owner (Rick Hexemer) bought it and pulled it out of storage in 2006:

Once home, Rick cut the roll bar out of it and dismantled it to the point where it was just a rolling shell. He also started to remove layers of paint, perhaps in order to identify the color of the original pinstripes. Were they standard Black for the RS/SS or were they pace car replica Blue? There was no indication found that I am aware of. While in his possession Rick located a correct date coded 350 block with correct 1182 crank, heads, intake, carb and Muncie 4-spd transmission. All of these parts came with the car when I got it except for the transmission. Unfortunately, Rick was unable to continue the restoration of the car and sold it off on e-bay. Here are some of the pictures from that auction. The pictures on the left show what it looked like when he first brought it home. The pictures on the right are what it looked like when he sold it.

Dwayne Salisbury of Bradford, Vermont was the winner of Rick's auction for $8,218.24. Dwayne started a restoration on it, but only got as far as getting the undercarriage and firewall sandblasted. Due to a financial debt Dwayne traded the car, all of its parts and a big pile of aftermarket sheetmetal to his landlord, Sargent Metalworks of Bradford, Vermont, to help pay down the debt. I heard that there was another Camaro, a Z-28, that may have been part of the deal. There was definitely more aftermarket sheetmetal than one car's worth. When Dwayne started working on it, he posted a picture of it online. Here it is:

Sargent Metalworks did not want the car and posted it on Craig's List. My father bought it, thinking that it was something that he would re-sell. And re-sell it he did as soon as I took a look at it. This all happened in April 2016. This is what it looked like, when he hauled it home:

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