1970 "DUPED" Dart Swinger

Of course I did. You seem to be a perfectionist, which is OK but means that any work that anyone else did probably will not satisfy you. That doesn't mean you should blame them for all the extra effort you chose to tackle. All the terms describing the car which you are complaining about are subjective. Things like "no leaks" in a 1970's car usually means "no drips on the ground below". You can stop all leaks if you change to modern materials like silicone gaskets and other resto-mod approaches. You decided not the inspect the car in person and to buy as-is, so unfair to publicly shame the seller over fairly niggly issues.
I really don't think that having a manifold with an 1/4 inch gap between it and the block with zero sealing is being a perfectionist.... I also don't think that having all the receipts for a car and then noticing some of those parts are in fact NOT on the car... and have been replaced with cheap junk is being a perfectionist... I also don't think that having a pool of oil under a car after driving it once isn't considered leaking oil... Subjective? Maybe to you and the seller but not to anyone else I'd guess. I also don't see anywhere that I publicly shamed the previous owner.. Not once did I mention his screen name or who he was.

I also think you've completely missed the point of this entire thread... maybe you read it, but I don't think you caught it. If you were looking for a gold watch and I said I had one, sold it to you and sent you a Casio... You'd just put it down to being subjective right?