According to folklore, he did... I have often wondered which XU-1 it was that he bought... on one of the other forums around the place, trhey were discussing the whereabouts of various old racing cars (the identites of the Gp. C HDT VK's was certainly open to a bit of conjecture, and hasn't been yet resolved to my satisfaction ) and I don't think anybody had really found where Dick's last (ex-HDT) XU-1 went in the end.