Let’s hear a 340 story

OK, one more story. Same '69 340 Swinger but my buddy and I are now putting a new cam in it.
We can't get the harmonic balancer bolt to break loose so my buddy gets the genius idea of jamming the existing cam by putting a tool between the cam lobe and the lifter valley webbing. He said, "Who cares if the lobe on the old cam breaks?".
One healthy jump on the extended handle attached to the socket on the balancer bolt and CRACK!
The cam didn't break.
There was now a break from the a webbing window right up through the wall of a lifter bore. And now I have to explain to my wife why I need to buy a new block.
I called all over SoCal trying to buy a 340 block from a dealer and all I was quoted were short block assemblies.
At the time I was in the CA National Guard with Kenny Black (Keith Black's son). I called Kenny and he said, "Come on down to the shop and pick out the block you want. We have a bunch of them."
Drove to Black's shop in South Gate and they had 340 blocks stacked up against a wall. Turns out they were high-nickel content 340TA blocks meant for the TransAm program builds. That block was still in my Dart when I (stupidly) sold it years later.
Sure wish I'd kept that car...but none of us have ever said that. Right?