Is this engine recoverable?

Years ago Todd and I would would scrap cars. If they started we would take the air cleaner off put a stick between the seat and throttle peddle. with the motor running flat out we would throw what ever we could find at the carb. Buckets of stones and sand , Dirt . liquids. What ever it would suck in and then run. You would not believe what makes it out the exhaust.

The most indestructible out of all brands and sizes was a 72 duster 318.

The worst was a 455 buick. parts were at the neighbors, Connecting rod cap and part of a rod sticking out of the asphault under the car. Mike would come out of the body shop to see what the racket was and walked back in shaking his head .

Those were the days. 440's would always come out the sides . GM usually out the bottom. Slant sixes would usually always take out the starter and break the trans.

We didn't do many small block mopars or forged crank big blocks.

Fords You wouldn't get to throw anything. They would disintegrate on their own. There were times you didn't even make it out of the car or truck and the fords were coming apart. FE's were the worst . Had one blow the whole oil pan off with most of the pan rail attached.

The driveway was down hill to the road. When it would rain the oil would wash to the road and traffic was always spinning their wheels to make the slight incline.

when we get together and talk about the old days we usually laugh ourselves to our knees,