Something I’ve been wondering about for years….

Professor Fate said

Back in the bad old days I went as far as to request my machinist of choice (RIP Steve) to not hot tank my engine parts- after explaining why, he grudgingly agreed. When assembled, the engine had old flakey paint and often mismatched colors, and with an appropriate coat of grime liberally applied it looked like a tired "ridden hard and put away wet" engine. When potential victims checked it out at the Dog 'n Suds or the Red Barn it was dismissed pretty quickly as some wannabe.
:lol:
$$ Money in the pocket.

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Are you Boyd?
My friend did the same, with two Novas.
One was obviously fast, so he asked if the victim, uh, competitor wanted to race his other one instead. Single exhaust, two barrel, tiny one snorkel air cleaner, three speed knob. Greasy dirty small block.
Was a 434, with a 500cfm 2bbl, air cleaner was opened up underneath where it couldn't be seen , 4sp trans with a bunch of gear in the back. 2 1/2 ram horn exhaust, nice pipes dumping underneath.
Won five times as much money with the sleeper than the fast car.