[Pro Stock John]

Here is my working notes and timeline.

TIMELINE:
So the timeline I'm tracking the most, though I'm happy to modify it if facts and/or people who were actually involved share info.

-Bill Jenkins purchases IV, a butternut yellow L89 in 1967/1968. He races IV until the middle to end of 1970, and then sells it to Brooklyn Heavy (Rufus Boyd). At that point in time the car has a 3 pt bar.

-Heavy campaigns the car and Carmen Rotonda drives it at least some of the time. Car is then sold in 1973 to Carmen and/or Frank Carnisacola, there is some sort of relationship there. Some say Rotonda's speed shop becam F&Js.

-Car is sold to Bob Veniero in 1974.

-Bob sells the car to Joe Algieri. It's said that Joe has the chassis work done by SRD (but I've also heard Bill Hayes of AutoWeld). Car gets backhalfed and tubbed and there are pics of the car running 15x32s out back. I've also heard the car around this time recieved a Dana 60. Joe said he swapped the nose off the car and changed it to standard grille. He's said on occasion he sold the nose and one person said he was told he kept it. At this point the car has fiberglass fenders.It's said that Heavy looked at the car and said it was IV. Since Heavy may have been incarcerated from 1973 (unless he was out on bail) I wonder when he would have seen the car. He was officially sentenced in 1976 so we can assume he started his sentence then. So the story about Heavy verifying the car feels like hearsay for me at this point. (feel free to show me otherwise).

-Joe sells the car as a roller in 1980 to someone in Kentucky. Joe delivers the car and it's an 18 hour drive. The buy 's location had a lot of escavating equipment.

-The trail goes cold at this point.

-The car is rumored to have been painted black sometime after 1980. Was reportedly owned by a guy called Wild Bill who ran it in a "Super Shifters" club. Car was named the most dangerous car in the class because of how hacked up it was.

-At some point after 1980 but before his passing Bill supposedly looked at the car in person and verified it was IV. This is supposed to have happened in the Southeast. Bill said the car was too hacked up to restore. There is another version of this story that the car was getting pro streeted and he saw it in NJ. That latter theory seems like hearsay to me at this point.

-I'm told from a credible contact the car still exists as is. I have followed up with the contact info I have. We'll see what happens. In one of my calls today one of the people, also extremely credible says he has the VIN number of the car.

I'm just in it for fun of it, feel free to help or if you have additional info and want to keep it private shoot me a message. A few folks have graciously shared info with me.