So I found a 440BB

It was on craigslist. Where I live 440s are as rare as hen's teeth!! It was a few miles out of town and the guy only wanted $450 for it. So I drove for 45 min to find that the guy has 2 454s (complete)and one 440 complete with 727. Unfortunately they had all been sitting outside for about 15 years, the intakes (no carb) were full of leaves and crap, one intake had an extremely large tarantula peeking out of the intake ports. I tried turning the engines over with no luck at all. He only wanted $250 for the 454 engines (each). But they were all locked up and after 15 years in the weather I figured that I'd never get them to come apart and if I did the cylinders would be so pitted it would have been a waste of money and time. The lifters were surely froze solid and I'd probably have to break the cam to get it out.
I hated to leave them there. The guy says "Oh yea, just pour some Kerosene into the cylinders and the pistons will come right out....been doing this for years!!". I guess he thought that he was talking to a fool??? I've hammered on frozen pistons (with a 2 X 4) for hours trying to the piston free so I know. One more thing...I live on the Gulf coast, salt air and high humidity. When things get wet they corrode really bad really fast.
I didn't want to be discourteous so I told the man that I'd have to borrow a truck from one of my friends and that I'd have think about it.

PS - Oh yea, when it rains around here it rains inches!! These engines were leaning against the outside of a lean to shed on the side where all the rain water would normally pour off of.

WHAT WOULD YOU HAVE DONE?? BUY OR WALK???:realcrazy::soapbox::BangHead:

Treblig