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74Dusted said
Hopefully when it strikes, you don’t ignore the deal like I did about 15 years ago.

I was putting my ‘74 Twister together and as a broke teenager I was trying to pinch pennies but wanted performance. I responded to an Ad for a 413 with a 727 bolted to it.... Went and looked at it and the seller wanted $200 for the engine/transmission “I don’t even know if it runs and it probably gets horrible mileage with those dual 4 barrels.”

Can you see where this is going? ...... it had the longtube crossram intake on it!

Like an idiot, I passed on the deal (I didn’t know what it was at the time), because my Dodge D50 pickup needed a clutch, so I used the money I had saved to buy a clutch instead. The motor died in the D50 6 months later anyway.

well not as bad as my story...

I was 17, enlisted in the Army Guard that year, 2004. A couple days before I was to ship out for BCT, I stumbled across a 1970 B5 Blue, Plymouth Barracuda, 340, auto. Bucket seats. sitting on concrete blocks. reverse gear was out in the trans, car hadn't moved from inside the barn since 1979. Guy wanted 500 bucks. I had the cash, but being a minor in my state, you had to have parents signature to buy a car. or to withdraw the funds from the then joint savings account. Mom refused to let me buy it due to lack of air bags. I inquired about it when I got back home from BCT 11 weeks later, guy had crushed it... for 200 bucks in scrap metal at the time.