Rusty,
I have just spent the past 1 hour of my life reading this thread & I am never going to get it back!
But you...You have the chance to get that car of yours back, just think about driving into the sunset in it, or ripping out the dash and doing another million things to it
So much work has been put into that thing mate, you deserve to have never lost it in the first place, so get out there and get your car back!!
Let us all know how you go.