Hello. Unless I'm missing some piece of information, I don't believe there's any ambiguity about the ownership of the body dies. That fisherman bought them as scrap in the eighties, so the dies therefore belong to him. If someone buys and fishes up these dies for reuse, and the surface damage is less than one weld bead deep, I'd happily volunteer to resurface the two left front fender dies at least. If the new owner and I can come to terms, I'll donate the shield gas, welding wire, weld and grind time. It'd be the most off-the-wall thing I ever restored. I'm optimistic about their condition. They probably landed face down. Rick Gendreau