Saw one for myself a few years ago- a longblock bought by the owner of a large collection, for an original HM 63-1/2 NASCAR Galaxie. Supposedly dyno tested, all "correct" blah blah. My friend who has a race resto shop went to install it, and when they tilted the back down to drop it in, the oil started running out of the back in a pretty good stream. Off to my neighbor's shop, tore down, and what a mess- and messed up parts. It had a press- plug steel crank (way undersize of course), but I have never seen anyone put a crank in an engine in anything close to that condition. First was very obvious- a couple of the plugs had been replaced with screw-in versions, but crooked and not seated deep enough, and the remaining press-ins had no snap rings. Pull the caps, journals pretty rough, but the real seal was the worst, rust-pitted so badly that there was no way a seal could be expected to hold- really bad. Considering that the rest of the journals were way undersize, and the rest of the crank was also pitted, not hard to figure out- scrap pile rusty crank, ground to "fix". Rods were in similar shape, heads were half-assed "rebuilt", non- matching valves etc. They called me, look at this crap, so I brought down a cherry std steel crank, the rods also got tossed, and heads completely re-done. Of course the owner paid pretty good money for that engine "built on Biblical principles"
