i did get an email reply from what I believed was the second owner. the car had the turbo when he got it and his recall was that this was a test/prototype either with Garret or Crane.
Additional googling found the first owner had started an engineering company that only was in existance the time he might have owned the car. the current address of this company is now a body shop that started buisness when the engineering company went out of buisness.
any one every hear of a turbo project venture in the Ft Lauderdale area of the name " ALL-TRONICS SYSTEMS "?
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