It was great talking to you last night John.
Here are a few things that might ruffle some feathers
I spoke to Carmen Rotonda about the car. He said that when Heavy bought the car the engine blew up. Carmen owned his own national record holding Modified Production car and says that he and Heavy traded cars. At that point Carmen had the Jenkins car. He says they painted the cars to look like the swap never happened and Heavy continued to tell people it was the Jenkins car.
When the FEDs arrested Heavy they confiscated all his cars but witnesses say the Camaro was not one of them. One source said that Heavy had the car at his "down south" house. If the swap story is true then the car he was hiding was Rotunda's old car.
Heavy authenticated the car shortly before his death (late 2000's) based on pictures from when Algeri owned the car.
The real Jenkins car had a VIN and trim tag and a very prominent member of the Nostalgia Pro Stock community claims to know the number. If the car didn't have a VIN when Algeri bought it it may have been removed to prevent the FEDs from taking it.
The Algeri car went to Kentucky and then to North Carolina where it was painted black with 2 white stripes and owned by Wild Man. Wild man died in a car wreck (not in the Camaro)and his father kept the car and supposedly still has it.
As for authenticating the car without a VIN and trim tag it would require that the car had at least the partial hidden VIN on the firewall. From there you could add the first digits since we already know the car is a 2 door coupe and send the number to the NCRS and see if they can find what dealer the car was shipped to when new IMO if there is no partial VIN I would not trust any authentication of the car.
Wild man's father is well into his 80's which matches the identity of the guy that John Ryan heard about. I have a friend who knows how to contact Wildman's father I am just waiting to hear back.
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