| Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 29,842 | I inspected a pretty good fake of a one-year-only Dodge Duster that looked good until I started doing a little research on the VIN number- - - -which was from a car two years newer than the only year that particular one was produced. It was at the Gateway Classic store in East St. Louis. The asking price was about twice what the car was worth, particularly when they were unable to provide documentation that the "340" engine in it wasn't actually a 318. They refused to remove the block hugger headers and the starter to give me access to the block casting number, and the machined pad at the front of the block had no numbers on it. I don't think the client from Australia who commissioned the inspection bought it. Jerry
"It is better to be silent and be thought a fool than to speak and eliminate all doubt!" - Abraham Lincoln Cringe and wail in fear, Eloi- - - - -we Morlocks are on the hunt! There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. - Ernest Hemingway Love your enemies and drive 'em nuts!
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