Thanks for your responses to my gripes/sarcasm (and taking over the thread).
Here are my issues:
I bought it in 1983!
I live in CA!
I have used online phone books to get a number of addresses. With 30 letters sent out of 90 I have written down (spreadsheet), no luck. Though, I have been offered beers if I ever show up in a few of the wrong addressee's towns! And that is only the first 90 people of that name listed on those sites. :-(
I've gone the DMV route (dang CA). What a great break to see my own name 4 or 5 times in their records...
I haven't gone the town hall route. I'd have to figure out where that town hall is, if it exists... lol
Bonuses:
1968 model
No TT
Non-original drive train
Met at least 2 previous owners, other than the guy I bought it from, in my area in the first couple years I owned it. But I was 18 and didn't really care. Kind of freaked me out, actually... So, to get to the original owner, I'd have to find at least 3 people through the other's memories!!!
I try not to think about it too much. I'm just going to (re)build my car the way I think I should be... If I luck out, I luck out.