Hey Julian....
That's what I thought too (with the serial number), but when you look at the Provo Mo site you see that serial number 9023 is marked as a 1977 GTS in a listing from Claude Dubois.
So I'm not really sure that we can be 100% positive that this is a 1980s car. Interesting stuff anyway. Hopefully we can find out more!
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