Yep, hes on a gold mine.
Saw a 360 for sale a few weeks back - stock runner with an edelbrock performer manifold and 600cfm edelbrock carb - guy wanted $5,500 for it:wtf:.
Complete 318 cores go for around $1,500 now and the last 340 I saw for sale must have been about 10 years ago.
I just paid $500 for a complete 360 core, $600 a few weeks ago for a good running 318 (stock except for a Performer intake but no carb) that came with a working 904 and converter.