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ItBites:

Thanks. I couldn't make it out. Eyes deteriorate with age. It is CSX 2036. Not an official DragonSnake according to the Registry. The owner's name did not ring a bell. This is a pretty small fraternity of cars.

According to the Registry:

....."the car's early history is a mystery, beyond noting that it was NOT, as suggested in the '82 Registry, a DragonSnake...."

...."the first know owner was Jeff Plitt (NY) who advertised it for sale in the mid '70s as "dark blue with black leather..."

...."unsold, 2036 was advertised in mid-'81 again by Plitt as "partially disassembled for restoration; all there except tach and door straps........

Successive owners were George Raterink (he used to own a Cheetah and lives in Longmont, Colorado), Bill Murray and then Rick Nagel who had Murray perform a resto with the DragonSnake lettering. After that, it went through three more owners (including Raterink, again) by the time the '97 Registry was written.

Looks like it was a street car converted to comp specs with DragonSnake paint.