Your biggest car hack job ever

My biggest hack job, I was about 17 when the oil pump went out in my Twister and wiped the crank out of the 340 T/A I had in it. I had just painted the car and charged the A/C system so I was not in the mood to yank the engine back out again. I talked to a few older mopar folks and they all said I'd have to yank the motor because it was impossible to pull the crank with the motor in the car.

I unbolted the 727, slid it back an inch or so and ran a ratchet strap under it to hold it up, unbolted the a/c compressor and tied it up (still connected and charged), pulled the timing cover and oil pan, dropped the crankshaft, replaced the bearings and put another crankshaft back up in with a new oil pump and had the car back on the road in about 6 hours.

It ran for another 4 or 5 years, till I parked it for a Resto-mod (I was going to replace the T/A with a Supercharged R3 340)...at which point I fired the car up and pulled it into the garage and discovered some iffy things about the driver's side quarter, yanked the motor and started doing body work... The motor is still sitting under my work bench and the car is still in the body work stage, 7 years after the "Resto-Mod" project began.