So... What did I buy?

Any 340 block found today under $1000 is a good find. They are 50 years old and very few left out here. I have sold complete clean standard bore short blocks for as high as $2000. blocks .030 over bare for as high as $1000. HP 383's are even harder to find. Many threw them away and installed 440's. We get calls for early production 70-73 casted 360's to build LA strokers . Very thick cylinder walls .
I was just browsing the thread and thought the same they are very old castings. I do have a .030 o er 340 and a sightly worn std bore block... the thing with 340 is, people want them they dont want to pay for them. Anyone would take a 340 for the price of a 318:) ( and i remember getting 318s for free)