I bought my Cuda from a dealer near them, and the previous owner had like $50K in it upon trade in and it had been "restored" by Hodge Restorations very recently (this was back in '03) - cloned to an AAR. I bought it based off of the pics and the conversations I had with Lee. Everything he told me about the car was true, and he was very helpful.

BUT.... I spent a few years and THOUSANDS of dollars chasing gremlins around on the car. The car was never represented as a show car... but it was just painted by what appeared to be a shop that knew what they were doing, so I expected that I wouldn't have to worry about the paint.

The problems I had were prep issues, lifting and corrosion under the paint. But for the most part the car appeared nice and everything I was told was correct. And if I had to do it again, I would have still bought the car for the deal that I got on it... I just would have stripped the car and repainted it sooner.

Now its black and beautiful, and its all good.