1970 "DUPED" Dart Swinger

Some issues like the paint quality could have been judged by you viewing the car in person. One can always find some imperfections. You could have asked for more photos under various lighting conditions. I'm not seeing much of an oil leak. Most people here use a silicone at the fwd and aft ends of the intake manifold, rather than the cork pieces in the gasket kit. Looks like the bead wasn't quite thick enough, but hard for the assembler to know that. Seems overkill for you to remove the engine just to replace gaskets, but looks like you did that to paint the engine bay. Did the seller misrepresent that or you just decided you wanted to paint it. Overall, looks like you got a really nice car. Had you seen it in person would you have declined to buy it at the price you paid? Seems that some of your complaints are more "buyer's remorse". It isn't like the seller was hiding things like rusted-thru floorboards. It has a modern Sanden AC setup so any refrigerant leak should be cheap and easy to fix.