Reuniting numbers engine/trans. with your car

I wish I could find the original engine and trans. for my 1970 340 Dart I've owned for 17 years. My car currently has a 1972 340 and 4-spd. trans. in it. I check the lost and found from time to time but no luck so far. I was just wondering how many of our fellow Moparts members have been fortunate enough to reunite the original engine and/or trans. with their car. I'm not talking about a situation where you knew where or who had the originals when you bought your car and you were able to acquire them. Like in my case, I'm talking about situations where you had no idea or knowledge of where the original engine/trans. was when you bought your car but somehow you were able to track it down and acquire it.

Although I haven't had the pleasure of reuniting a engine to it original car. For the life of me, I can not get rid of the original 318 and tans for my 70 Barracuda, I know I will never reunite them (put them back in). But after reading so many stories of those looking for them makes me keep it.

If it doesn't still have the original engine and trans, there's a reason and most likely because it had problems and again most likely to the point at the time it was cheaper or less time consuming to just replace one or the other. After that within a day or even a few years it was off to the scrapyard never to be seen again. Not related but I had a problem with the original 5.0 V8 MerCruiser in my Sea Ray SR225 boat and called a local friend engine shop that told me he could touch it for several months or until after racing season he was so backed up. He said my best bet was to go to Summit Racing Equipment just down the road from us and buy a brand new GM Goodwrench long block 5.7 from them for $2500 and swap out the Sea Ray MerCruiser marine intake and buy a Melling marine performance camshaft and put the brass freeze plugs and pickup 50+ hp and get the boat back in the water. Did that quickly and then my friend's son hauled the original 5.0 block off to the scrapyard and got the scrap money for himself for hauling off. I would think that had been going on forever. My A12 engine was rumored to have been sitting uncovered beside a garage in a tough neighborhood in Youngstown, Ohio for decades but I never had to go look for it and its most likely been off to the scrapyard for years for some crack or some 20/20

Never say never.

I'm delivering an engine next week to the guy who owns the 69 roadrunner this came out of back in the 70s

I have a 340 stamped 2B359418 or 2B3594118. believe it's out of a 72 Cuda