Let’s hear a 340 story

Sherriff had us tow a van into the yard. Story goes a man died in it. Nobody wanted to touch the thing. Obviously he was living (dyeing ??) in it. It sat and sat in limbo. It had all of his personal possessions in it. It had some cool stuff in it. I bought it for the tow bill. $230 if I remember correctly. Nobody but me knew it had a 1972 340/904 in it. Drove it home. Hindsight I should have done something with the van, 1978 model I believe. I cut the cowl out of it to harvest the engine. I regret that. Could of had a cool van. Engine is 20 over and in storage right now. Ready to head to the machine shop. Ima gonna stroke it if it sonic checks out for boring.
Was it grey?