As I said before, the top is a very intricate system of articulated bows.  It looks like a real 3 bow system.  The hood is glass, and the louvers are dummys as in most kit cars,  The only thing that even remotely looks like it might have been identification is a round spot on the firewall tthat is about 2 1/2 inches in diameter that has three small holes that could have been where an emblem was once mounted.

I think that I have answered at least some of my questions, and used our site to do it!  If you go to our home page, there is a link to a Daytona MIGI pdf.  If you download and scroll through the ads until you get to a front engine version, you will see a grainy picture that shows a hood opening like mine.  They also list a folding windshield.  The cloth or velour seats also fit.  That said, the top mechanism is wrong and they list only a Chevette engine.   

Just a quick update.  As I mentioned in another post I have finally identified the car.  It is really not a kit at all.  In the early 80’s, members of Kosair Shrine in the Louisville and Southern Indiana area decided to build parade cars.  There were initially 20 members.  They used a basket case MGTD with a decent body to make molds and proceded  over 7-8 years to build cars.  They designed and built frames and even made molds and cast aluminum pieces for brackets etc.  Eventually 10 were produced, 5 on a VW chassis and a slightly modified version on a cusom frame using Pinto components.  Mine is one of the latter.  They employed the talents of many of the members.  The one (of three) remaining people that I talked to has terminal brain cancer and short term memory loss.  I met with him and his wife on Tuesday.  There are three Ford based cars that they know of including mine.  They still have one.  It is a replica to drool over.  He made all castings, windshield, radiator cap, hinges, headlight brackets etc out of brass, again all sand cast and polished.  They took an MG 3 bow top, disassembled it and replicated it.  They even made a matching trailer (much like a motorcycle trailer)  I’m told that the molds may still exist with one of the grandsons.  So, if you see the picks of my car, at least you know its’ story.  By the way, he was thrilled to see my car and was happy that someone still loves his babys.