Blew up my 440 with automatic trans and.....

Lordie, I'm glad you can laugh. The demise of my original 70 V code was on I-5 S of Stockton, about 2:AM in the early 70's. This was on a semi-illegal 4 day's off from NAS Miramar. Spent the rest of the weekend...........

Drunk wrecker operators from "wherever" into Stockton.......

Bus ride to 'Frisco

Taxi to Oakland airport

Big plane back to San Diego.

Fired up the black '64 440 (426) rented a U haul tow bar and drove all the way from San Diego to "wherever" S of Stockton and towed the poor thing back to NAS Miramar.

No 6 rod cap? rod let loose, one or two next to that one, and broke the cam. I Pulled the distributor, the intake, the valve covers, and threw the rest into the garbage can.

that sounds like one hell of a trip! I was about 1/2 mile from my garage! and FYI.... the original engine for this car was/is long gone.