I wish I new what happened to my old 6bbl RR. I was second owner, my Navy buddy who sold it to me and I are still friends, he is near 80. His wife of many years went completely senile in a few months.
I sold it to some ******** kid and he's STILL a ******** and likely into drugs. The car disappeared not long after he bought it, and I lived in a VERY small town, about 4K or 5K population or so at the time. I heard rumors that he was iin a "hit and run" and someone claimed they "put it over a cliff." More likely one of his friends buried it or they cut it up. I tried to look him up awhile back with not much luck. He lives over in MT.
Listen to this!!! At the time he bought it I had dumped a 360 short block in it with some 273 commando heads and intake. Had an adapter on the intake for I think an AFB. It was a torque monster up to about 4000!!! After that you might as well lift or turn off the key!!!.
He used to tell his friends it would "run 12's" and "lift the tires."
One night I heard that and told him, "you can lie to all of the people some of the time, you can lie to some of the people all of the time, but don't ever lie to the previous owner!!! The only time that car had the tires off the ground was on jack stands!!! And it NEVER got into the 12's with a small block in, and the 340 was a LOT faster than that 350!!! His friends just stood there and didn't say anything.
It had about 140K on it then, and he managed to something I never had--burned up the Dana 60. I think he must have gotten one tire in the mud in the winter with the other on pavement, drunk, and just sat there and burned it until the clutches went away.
Me, about 1972
