Are number matching or original components a big deal?

pauly v.100 said

Spend a couple bills and a weekend and drop a teen in there, then go have fun while you decide on it's future plans.
It sucks starting a big project before getting a chance to enjoy it for a while first.
When ready, do what ever suits you, a 340 or stroked 360 car will out-sell a 273 car all day.
Those Keystones look right on your car, and I don't even like them that much, nice ride sir!

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Thank you for the compliment and advise. The car was stored for 10 years in Michaigan of all places before I purchased it. I had to fix some 50 year old parts that were near failure. In repairing the tired parts I have made, what I feel are, period correct changes in preparation of the future engine change.

- I rebuilt 8 3/4 from '72 demon with open diff and 3.23 gears
- add a new three core copper brass radiator
- new calipers from A1 Cardone
- Cardone reman services rebulit my orginal booster and master (Steve Tortu in the R&R department is the man at Cardone)

Funny you mention the 318. I was offered my pick of (2) 318's just this week. A 1968 and 1974 date coded blocks. I will test compression and leakdown and put the best one in of the bunch. Thanks for the advise.