Ok, that's clear and definitive and has focus.
What would make a car like that stand out would be attention to detail on the aftermarket periphery items: rims, tires, tach, gauges, coil, plug wires...
Of course every car was a different, but I would pick and combine items that stand out visually: chrome valve covers, mechanical tach, cool can,
This is key to your 69 era build plan. Study old photos such as posted above. Landys dart
was also over engine photographed as a great reference.
Notice things that have been mentioned above and the milodon
dual line spacer and pump cover. The aluminum tube from the spacer.
These parts or Lee Smith parts were popular. The pans were 1 1/2" deeper than
the SS pans offered today and had a round tube for the steering linkage to pass thru
rather than rectangular. Also had a different swinging pick up than what is available
today that works with the extra deep pans.
Some racers built their own pans. The shifter handles used are long discontinued
as well as the sandwich style reverse lock out.
The cars also used a cable driven mechanical rev limiter
that required a splitter
