Good News and Bad News

First the good news.
I finished installing the window wipers today. I tried to cut and grind the two existing dash braces to get the apparatis mounted and finally did as the instructions said and cut both completely out of the way. With a little more modifying it all went into place. Most HotRodders don't like running their ride in the rain. This one will if need be.
Now the bad news.
Cliff called me about the 355 engine and said I should come and look at it. I headed on down to Missouri and he showed me basicly a pile of junk. The heads were bad. The crank bearings bad and one spun on the crank. (it can be reground). One of the pistons was froze on the rod pin. An old distributor gear was used on the distributor and ruined the cam gear. The rods are okay and can be reused. The timing cover was beat up and junk. The pan, intake, timing gear and chain are okay. There was a lot of filings in the pan and so the oil pump is shot.
We found a crack in the block, so that is no good.
To make a long story short, Cliff has another block and will build me a good engine using the parts that are salvagable. Everything else will be new including new heads.
This was a costly mistake on my part. I learned a hard lesson. Won't do that again.