Who's in the "I broke a 7.25" club?

1980 Volare slant 904. spiders broke. Low-mileage.

Funny thing is, in 75 or so I put a 340 in a 65 V100 wagon, with a 64 A904 (converted to non-push button) and left the 7.25 in there. The 340 had a complete 318 top end on it including the cam. I drove it like that for about 2 years, peg-legging it everywhere.
The tranny gave up first.
I gave it to my little brother.Who put a 225 in there. And drove it for a few more years. Then blew the 6 up. That 225 was a take-out from a 69 Barracuda I had bought the year before I got married( so 76), and installed a fresh rebuilt into. Well that FB was pretty snappy, and it didn't go un-noticed by my buddies baby-sitter. So about a year later, the kid rolls his 71 Demon340/727. And he wants my BabyBarracuda. So we struck a deal and made a trade. I got a mountain of Mopar stuff, including the roll-over. I went and bought a 74 DartSport 360 4-gear. Less than a year later, I saw the kid walking............ no....... the rearend was ok................a rod had exited the block. Wait, that's not the end. Some time later, I saw him driving it again. Well I had to know, so I chased him down. It turns out slantys run not bad on 5 cylinders. He had just stuffed the hole with rags and drove on. He said eventually it stopped clanging.
My Sport had an 8.25 in it.
Fast forward to 1999, and a lot of that mountain of stuff went into my current ride.
Along the way I've had many more 7.25s but never blew another one up. I didn't actually blow the one up in the 80 either. I bought that car in 94 with a blown up slanty, for $100. The body was mint. I bought a parts car and had the SS rebuilt, while I freshened the 904. The car had been driving just fine until the day the engine blew. Well, after I got the thing running again, I backed it out of the bay, and then I heard it. That awful grinding noise. Hyup the spiders were piled up. Back to the parts car, I went........