Long lost engine found! Well maybe not. Not really lost. No one was really looking either!
Short story. My aunt owned my Valiant. And when she bought it my dad told her to keep a check on the oil because it used oil. She didn't and I ended up with the car in 1976 for $52. (the price of 2 new tires she had just put on it) So dad and I dragged it home and put it in my grandmother's garage where we swapped in another engine. Fast forward 42 years and my brother says to me, "hey there is a slant 6 out in Grandma's garage, it must be yours!"( He purchased grandma's house after she died) I said that I didn't know why I would have an engine in grandma's garage! Then I remembered that we had swapped the original engine out of the car in that very garage!
I stopped and took a quick peek and there slid under an old work bench and covered up with a old rug is definitely a Slant 6 short block. So I may have located the original engine out of the Valiant. No cylinder head because I swapped in a big valve head when we switched engines. So I'll go and haul it home and add it to the collection. If it is a 64/65 block I hope it has really thick cylinder walls! I may build a bigger, bigger bore engine next time around!...