I'm way into the old trulines and harringtons and stuff. I think they're awesome, I wish I had more money to buy a bunch of old jigsticks. My dad works up at lake cachuma and he was able to bring home some old glass rod that he found in an abandoned boat. It was all thrashed, but I managed to strip it down, and refinish the blank and it's waiting to be re-wrapped right now. Sounds sort of similar to yours. Had a detachable rear handle, but the foregrip was bonded to the blank so I had to cut it off. I think the overall length was 8ft. but with the hack job it's now closer to 7. It's gonna be a super fun rod for flylining calicos and screwing around with barracudas and stuff. Bends all the way to the butt, but it has a really cool action. I like that blank. I think I decided it was an old Roddy, which is apparently pretty good. Some of those old rods are just cheeze, but sometimes you'll find one that's made by truline or fenwick or something and it'll be sweet.
-Brian