Phil - I had a '56 Ford station wagon that lost so much oil that I got a couple of quarts of oil drained from cans and a couple of GALLONS of oil drained from cars every week at my local garage.

Eventually the engine blew up and when I took the head off I found a large hole in one piston and a carburetor bolt in the crankcase that had blown off the bottom when raw gas finally got ignited by the broken plug in the bad cylinder.

I found out later that my buddy's father had lost a bolt when he rebuilt the carb, he thought that it was on the ground somewhere.

I drove this $5 car for 6 months or so.It was a top of the line wagon that my friend's father had repainted, including the wood grain and molding on the sided and back. He sold it tome because it ran poorly.

AH - the good old days!