Very Cool story, another great car Daytona!! What was your favorite of all the ones you owned? Any reason you stuck with the T/A you own now? 
my favorite T/A....for looks, the triple black, it was beautiful inside out and upside down....I still have people ask me about the car 10 years after I sold it....
my favorite T/A....that I drove alot, a red/red 4spd(40K miles)....it was also unusually beautiful, but it drove better than any T/A I ever owned...it was bought new in Houma La. by a drag racer named Sidney Bonnecarre(sp?)...he sold it to a guy in Detroit and I bought the car on my birthday around 1987....I sold it to a disc jockey in Tampa Fl. a few months later, then brokered it to a collector in Michigan....lost track of it after that....heard it was in the Carolinas, but I don't know for sure..
the Plum T/A is the first PLUM CRAZY T/A I ever owned....also the nicest by far....it still has only 50K miles and is all original except paint(painted in 1983)....never any rust or body damage....matching numbers, 4spd....it has it all....when I liquidated my remaining MOPARs several years ago, I gave the PLUM CRAZY T/A to my son and a PANTHER PINK T/A to my daughter....they both kept the cars several years and sold them.....I ended up buying the purple one back about 3 years later....it will never be for sale again....I bought it the first time in 1988($14,500) and the second time about 2002($28K)...the PLUM CRAZY T/A has been in Hot Rod, Car Craft, at least 2 MOPAR Magazine covers, and several MOPAR magazine feature articles, numerous hardcover coffee table books.....it has had its share of publicity thru the years and now it rests quietly in a bubble among my other toys...
