Your facts are mixed up. Lets start with your quote.
- 360's only came in trucks ???? (you claim it's a truck motor)
- I don't need to "learn history". I've built 340's and 360's in "next to stock trim" and raced them at the track. In fact, I did a 340/360 comparison in the exact same car. I used the same heads, cam, intake, and carb from the 340 and swapped them to the 360 short block. I know what the results were. It is you, my friend, that needs an "opening of the mind".
- Are you even aware that the 360 Little Red Express truck put down a better 1/4 mile time than the '73 340 Duster from the factory??? Yes, that LRE was heavy and had the dynamics of a brick wall and still it laid a better ET.