Hey the photo of the car and it's roll bar worked!
I hope you agree the unrestored condition is pretty pristine. Hard to imagine going door to door on a race track with it when it was new. John claimed he could pull the Corvettes in the straight away and then loose out to them in the corners. He did have to replace a front fender and grill header panel. Said he was plowing a Corvette in the door sideways at a Milwaukee Mile road course.
He told me a story about a post race incident in Minnesota. He and his girl friend were in the process of changing out the racing tires for the street tires for the drive home. Dick Trickle had been in the event too. Trickle pulled up to John's pit in his loaded hauler and shouted in shock "Your DROVE that thing?"
The dealership (Hult) caught on real fast when John come in Mondays with burned up disc brake pads expecting them to be under warranty.
John did blow up the MO motor in Iowa street racing a kid during a trip to California. (Can you imagine grinding a 4.10:1 gear from Wisconsin to California? The local Chevy dealer fortunately sleeved the motor under warranty so I still retain the numbers matching block. Most dealers would have swapped in a service block and my MO would have been bye bye forever. John never told me this stuff when, as an 18 year old kid, was buying the car. He told me this stuff recently when I reconnected with him.