Cheepy Three-Sixty build

Back in the early 80's when I was first getting into ratty musclecars and hopping up engines in my suburban bubble all there was were magazines, books, a few known speed shops that did all levels of machining, that we could never afford, catering to older guys that had money, good jobs, who had hotrods that were but fantasy land for our crowd of just out of highschool with entry level paying jobs, and a Napa that did machine work, or a filthy cluttered machine shop operating out of an old converted gas station. To pull your motor, or snag a 440 from a 71 Imperial from the boneyard for a rebuild meant a hot tanking, a crank regrind, rod resizing, either a hone job or bore and hone, and bronze wall guides and a tri-angle valve job. That was it. Decking, cc'ing, line hone, flowbench, balancing, etc was all out of reach on a pauper s income. A big cam, maybe some home porting, an intake and carb, headers and you had a performance engine. PAW was a dream catalog....Anything else was big buck stuff. As long as the crank was ground and rods resized correctly and the engine broke in right all was good, what did we know? No money!... Hell it worked! It was what it was for our time. Surely it still works today, but having money sure is a lot nicer.