Looking at buying a 1968 Dart with 440

You're going to have to pull the engine down to inspect the bores beings your by the coast and salt air can be killers on fresh bores.

check the cam out too it didn't look like there was any assembly lube on it and with the way the oil is formulated nowadays its real easy to wipe out a cam, BTDT. in fact it probably wouldn't hurt to take apart the engine, check everything, and put it back together. that way your not relying on the unknown quality of someone else's work. just my $.02...

-tim