you were on it! And yes; bent fork. The front wheel didn’t match the rear but was era-appropriate, so there was probably a front-end collision back in the mid-late 70s that wrecked
the original front wheel and put this bike into the rafters for the last 40 years. It sold for $75; I’m using the 1st gen dura ace for another build—the full build kit is in really nice shape still