ASK RAY

ONE MAN’S EXPERIENCES

Q: This letter is in response to two reader’s letters from past issues of HMM.

I grew up when the cars of the 1960s and 1970s were brand new. My dad had a 1957 Oldsmobile Super 88 and the neighbors had a variety of early and late 1960s models, so both the old and new Rockets. I had both a 1968 and 1975 Hurst version of the 4-4-2.

Regardless of the year or model, any owner or dealer would tell you a quart of oil every 500 miles was normal consumption for the Oldsmobile V-8. As long as it wasn’t smoking or leaking, it was nothing to worry about. My dad had later wagons with the Olds 307 V-8, and he worried that they didn’t use enough oil.

Now for the Mopar: I used to keep two rotors in my toolbox, one marked M and one F. The rotors looked identical but