That quite the story that goes along with the car and I am sorry to hear about both your buddies. Crazy how much old cars had stories to go along with them where you don't have that as much now it seems. We don't have unique cars like this that are found at junkyards and rebuild multiple times and sold between friends anymore. They just cars now that are driven and go to the junkyard as just junk and one of 50k+ built so nothing special.

Is the car still sitting in the barn looking for a new owner? If so pm me some information on it as depending on information on it I would be interested in keeping it moving and back on the road.