Let’s hear a 340 story

A slightly different 340 story. Back in high school when the 68 was out of commission for one reason or another (always had something getting torn up in it) I bought a 72 Olds Cutlass. Nothing special and just had a 350 2 barrel in it but like any other teenager I loved to beat the hell out of it. There was a kid I went to school with that had a 71 340 Demon and we ran across each other one night at the local cruising spot. We went out and lined up and he proceeded to beat the pants off of me by about 6 cars. The next night I blew the 350 up. (It had had a rod knock in it that was camouflaged with a couple of cans of STP for awhile) That week I swapped in a 455 and ran across him again that Friday night. Told him I wanted to run again which he promptly accepted. Beat him that time by about 3 cars. When we went back to the cruise spot he asked what I did. Him not knowing Olds couldn't tell the difference between the 350 and 455 so I told him I just put a holley on it. A few year later I ran across him again and came clean about the 455.