Feels good to find something from the cars past like this!
I sent the photos to Misty the ex wife of the 3rd owner Alan Mason and she loved it. Alan thankfully took photos when he owned the the car in the late 70s including the interior pic shown. He was a high school student then. Alan was able to help me solve the puzzle of the ownership history before he passed.
The two big missing items to the car are the POP and trans. Bruce says he thinks the POP went to the car when it sold. I reached out to Shane Goss, brother of 2nd owner John Goss. Shane says his brother confirmed he didn't keep any paperwork to the car and when the car sold it likely went with the car. Since Alan passed, I reached out to Richard Buckley (4th owner) through his wife Dorothy who said he didn't remember the booklets coming with the car. (See previous posts for pics of Dorothy with car as a HS student).
This leads me to believe that Alan must have had the POP last if Bruce indeed sold the car with the POP in glove box. So I reached out to Misty who said she's going to ask a family member who kept some of Alan's things to see if somehow the POP is there.
In regards to the transmission the last I know is that Richard Buckley sold the Camaro with a bad steering box and without an engine. Younger brother Charley Buckley remembered the trans was tied up in the car.
Mr Jenkins who got the car as it was pulled from the barn from his friend John Baxter in the 2000s said the Camaro had a non numbers matching junk transmission and the fiberglass hood was coming apart.
My guess is trans was likely swapped out between Tom Rooker (5th owner) and Judy Stevens-Rooker (6th owner).
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