Maybe Webb's the "singer"?
About 1978, I advertised in the "Snakebite" wanting to buy a 427 Shelby Cobra.
At the time, they were in the $30 to $40 thousand range.
One Saturday morning I got a long distance call from Canada (Toronto). It was Webb. Seems if I gave him $115,000 in cash, he would tell me where the car was.
When I asked for paperwork, he said, "just go get it". (the car and it was "apart")
That was "just" a little more then I had in the budget and the terms of sale were not exactly comforting.
Within the year, Harvey Paxton "had" the car and as I recall was for sale by him for years if not decades after that.
I may be mistaken but I think Paxton still owned it when it brought $5.5 million at Barett-Jackson one year?
It is a car with very strange specifications and as Cosby said "a do-hickey on the hood where the superchargers lived".
As far as accurate journalism goes, never ruin a good story with accurate facts. You can always blame bs on what someone else told you, use it as filler and you certainly don't want to be pigeon holed as an aggressive investigative reporter that no one likes or just a ho-hum boring specification writer do you?