Many years ago I checked the vitals on my dads Lancia Beta and topped up the oil, drove 10 miles to my girlfriends and then 30 miles to Victoria coach station for her journey back to uni and then back home, some 70 miles.
As I got close to home a mate caught up with me to tell me the car was smoking badly!
Turned out the oil filler cap was no where to be seen and the car had been pumping oil on to the exhaust manifold!
Home to black Alfa Romeo 159 3.2 V6 Q4 ,green MGF VVC and red MG Maestro T16.
MG - the friendly marque.