Steve,
If I had a little bit more confidence in myself I would pull the 454 out of the truck since it is rusty and put that engine in the chopped top 50 ford.

I have two more old Chevy trucks just sitting there so I don't have anything to lose except time and sore bones. I have a 305 from a 76 Nova sitting on the floor with the trans still hooked up. A paint job and new gaskets would do wonders since it was leaking oil when I bought it for parts. The junkyards are getting low on the cars we want for parts at least where I'm at. They are crushing them more and more.

My friend that was paralyzed as a 19 year old kid told me he has a 454 in a truck that hasn’t been started up for about the same amount of time as mine set. I told him I would help him try to get it going. I was telling my friend what I would like to do with that engine and him sitting in a wheel chair said, "Just do it."

When I was a young guy late teens early twenty's I didn't think twice about pulling a motor and putting another back in the same day. We would paint a car in one day also when we were young. I borrowed the neighbor’s air compressor paint gun and his expertise to paint a 55 Chevy while on a three-day leave from the Army. As for me now as I get older I seem to be losing the confidence. Now that the truck worked out I may attempt another project.

Richard