[Trueoo7]

I'll bet since the car was located in VA, it came out of PA from a dealer whose name was/is (don't know if he's still in business) Tri-State Motorsports. ChuckG and me got our cars from him. Mike Mack was his name, may still be around and may be able to shed some light on it for you. Bought mine in 2003 and no you won't have the VIN plate riveted on unless the original owner did it. They sent that to me about a year after I had the car which I had to put on myself.
I'll bet yours is very close to mine (same color scheme too) if you want to give me the last 4 digits of your VIN, I'll compare it to mine and maybe that will give you an idea of how early a car it is. It looks like a second generation though, 1st gen had a narrower body where the tires stick out past the body.

Make sure you check the main bolt that attaches the rear diff to the chassis (there's only 1) It needs to be made out of hardened steel, mine wasn't and snapped off. It was a known weak link that they replaced for me.
Noticed your daughter in the car, check the passenger seat belt mounting point. Mine was bolted to the rear (fiberglass) fire wall, made sure that I changed that quick and mounted it to the frame. One other thing is the seats were drilled and mounted to the fiberglass floor with just small washers. I bought some thin steel plate (1/8") and connected the 2 front and back mounting points through it so now if I'm getting thrown out of the car, quite a bit of the floor is going to have to come with me.