Let’s hear a 340 story

I had a 71 dart with a 318 back in 1982. I put an ad in a local free paper looking for a 340. This was during the time that gas had gone from .50 cents to a dollar and people were freaking out. Big block anything were going cheap. My Dad even traded our 68 Charger RT for a freaking valiant with a 6 cylinder!!!! So I get a response from a guy named "Spike" who tells me come and get it air cleaner to driveshaft just pulled from a Demon Price $50 !!! I borrow $50 and Pap's truck and go to see it. As described all there he even gave me the radiator. I remember the Demon was bright Orange with a red plaid interior that looked like a kilt God Awful ugly combo. In the engine bay sat a 6 cylinder.

I never installed the 340 in the Dart and ended up buying a 69 Charger RT a few weeks later that was a 440 4 speed car. I traded he 340 to my buddy for a set of N50-15 tires for the back of the Charger. I had $50 in it and at the time didn't care. That same guy bought my Dart and put the 340 in it. Holy Crap did that thing run!!! He got drunk one night at a party I was at and he was in no shape to drive. I threw his drunken *** in the back seat and beat the hell out of that car the whole way to his house. Burn out after bun out that car asked for more. I kick my own *** to this day for not putting that thing together myself.