The shop working on my car now, the owners name is Holgar, when i first met him a year ago, we got to talking about europa's. at the time i was parts scavenging and ended at his shop (Powerslide motorsports, Jackson NJ) to look at a customers dashboard. Like i said, we got to talking and hed mentioned that in the 80's there was a big market for Europa's in Japan. back then he, and a few others were buying all the europas they could get there hands on, doing some modifications and selling them in the Japaneses market. He said it was great money at the time.
I suspect a number of those cars made their way through his hands. Small world