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Originally Posted by Charlie A
LO23 this is also rumored to have been your car:
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Thanks, Charlie. Yep, I have this photo and a few others with this paint scheme of my car. It seems Liteweight's car isn't the only LO23 shrouded in some mystery. As best as I can tell from piecing together personal accounts I've read online, and the photos I have unearthed, my car probably wore this paint scheme briefly when it was owned by Stan Antlocer, who I believe owned it briefly after Dick Smith, and just before Jim Keyes (who I bought it from). I know that my car was stolen at some point early in it's life, either when owned by Dick Smith or Stan Antlocer, and rumor is that there may have been some sort of insurance scam involved with this "theft", but I have no solid evidence of that. Jim Keyes told me he thought he bought the car from Dick Smith, but it was a long time ago and he wasn't certain. He remembered the car sitting on a trailer outside an apartment building or something, and that it where he bought it, after seeing an ad in the local paper for the car for sale. I think he probably bought it from this Stan Antlocer, who unfortunately died a year or two ago. I have the authenticity report from Galen Govier, and I don't think there is any denying the authenticity of my car being Dick Smith's real LO23 Dart, but there is a hazy period there with the ownership... Anyway, glad I own it now!