62 Year Old Stuff Breaks...

Having a 62 year old "toy" has had some challenges.  

1. That random toggle switch under the dash may not be so random?  I recently found out that the car has the original primary mechanical fuel pump and is augmented by an electric fuel pump under the car.  Now I didn't find out about this the easy way (like when the car was on a lift), I found out when the toggle switch wires came unhooked one day.  Not knowing the switch mattered, I ignored it and drove off.  As I turned on to Route 106 in Loudon, the car was essentially stalling out the faster I tried to go.  I limped to the gas station thinking I was out of gas, but I wasn't so I headed home.  When I turned onto Allen's Mill Road, the car got part of the way up the hill, stalled and wouldn't restart.  It was that moment that I knew that I knew the car was fuel starved but not sure what to do.  I rolled down to a driveway and let the carburetor fill back up with fuel.  This allowed me to travel back up to the next flat spot and fill the carburetor again with fuel.  I repeated this until I arrived home.  Needless to say, that I rewired the switch (and corrected some terrible wiring that was done "who knows when") and the car has been rolling fine ever since.  
2. That weird noise may not just be age?  I also recently found out that the car burns oil AND you can lose 2.5 quarts of oil (50% of all oil) and still not destroy everything...  I now obsessively check my oil regularly...
3. Overdrive is great but it shakes at low speed....  Not sure what I was feeling while I was driving with the mechanical overdrive running, I read the manual and found that at speeds below 30 MPH the overdrive essentially shuts off at slow speeds.  Pretty amazing technology for a mechanical process on a 62 year old car!