Fresh carnage!

To catch everyone up on the backstory, my Dad is having his 73 Barracuda repainted by a good friend of ours. The engine was installed at the painter's home based shop. Painter was going to move the car to make room when it happened.
My Dad's other buddy since high school built the engine. He is the owner of a successful local auto repair shop. Honest and well intentioned in every way. The fella has pretty much let his son take over the repair shop and he does custom stuff and engine builds. He's a Ford guy and this isn't Mopar Country so I told my Dad to ask him about the hidden oil gallery plug in the china wall on LA's. He didn't know about that so I offered my Dad to take my Larry Shepherd and Jim Szilagy books to the guy but he didn't.