1970 "DUPED" Dart Swinger

67Dart440GT said

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?

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Sorry I missed that in post 30 you finally mentioned oil drips on the ground below. Before that, you had only shown photos of slight oil mist around the distributor, way back where many wouldn't notice it, and not atypical in many of these engines. What parts are you now stating were claimed as being on the car but were missing? In post 50, you state that the distributor cap doesn't match a receipt you later found inside the car, presumably after you purchased it. Did the seller ever state that part was installed? Were the pricey after-market roller-tip rocker arms in post 48 as-found or something you added? There are always two sides to a story, so don't expect every reader to nod in agreement with your fussing.

The only way to know if the car was fairly valued would have been to instantly flip it and let the market decide. If you did, would you have managed to detail every little niggling issue and document ever tiny nib in the paint?