Quoted from Joker2415:

ummmm? reminds me of a guy that put a quart of oil in his girl friends car every couple of days for about 2 months. Then one day decides to pull it in his friends shop, put it on the rack to see where this leak is. Ya? The oil filter had actually rusted a hole through it! That tells you how often I changed oil and filters in our vehicles! They still remind me of that every now and again even 20 years later. "i've been around cars my whole liife, and you are the only one that I've ever seen have an oil filter rot through"

Quoted from cosmokramer:

My mom and sister checked the oil in her car when dad was away on business and proceeded to add a quart of oil...drop by drop...down the dipstick tube...

Quoted from FrankJ:

Not really a hack, but...
I went to college in La Crosse, WI. Me and 2 buddies stole this car from our roommate and took it to Florida for spring break (we couldn't find him that day and we were in a hurry). It got better gas mileage than our cars did. It had holes in the floorboards and dash(we drove huddled in sleeping bags). The passenger door was held closed by a bungee cord. On the way home, the alternator was going, we found a junk yard that had the part and the owner felt so bad for us that he lent us the tools to change it in the parking lot.
We left town with $220 between the three of us, 6 quarts of Catherine the Great Vodka, a loaf of bread, and a jar of peanut butter. We made it to Daytona Beach and back in that car.

Quoted from FrankJ:

That model of Ghia has a back seat. Not large or comfortable, but better than the breeze you felt in the front seat.