Weird Engine In A-Body

I used to have a 48 Willys p/u with all the running gear out of a 69 1/2 440 sixpack 727 Roadrunner that a friend of mine totaled after only 3,000 mi from new. Swapped the 383 that came in my 67 GTS for the 440 because the Jeep was too hard to handle with the straight axle. Then got married and wife thought we needed a tv worse than we needed that Jeep so there went my original engine that I had swapped into it and sold it for $500. Big mistake!!!