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Originally Posted by Lee Stewart View Post
The biggest OOPS of my life. I bought a 4-speed, 68 Hemi Cart LO23 car back in 1988. It was painted a flat, red lacquer (never buffed out) and had a lot of vintage race hemi parts with it including an NOS 1970 iron block and a magnesium crossram still in the box with Dick Landy Enterprises on the label. (I thought that was who sold the crossram - not who it was mailed to. DOH!)

I bought the car just to get the engine and then quickly resold the race car. It was so heavily tubbed and modified in the back and the firewall, so I would have had to buy an extra 68 Dart just to acquire the rear wheel wells to restore it back.

I never bothered to buff out the paint or look closer. Had I sanded just a little I would have found Dick Landy's original paint job underneath it all.

It turned out to be this car.

Ugh!
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