Engine messed up. Replace or rebuild?

[patdaly]

Originally Posted by Dclassen

WHERE IS THE OIL DIPSTICK?

If you have the original engine ( or at least a pre-1980 replacement ), your dipstick will be on the Drivers side, about middle of the engine. The tube will be pushed into the block at a small kick out boss where the oil pan meets the block. This tube is pressed into the hole and will come up to about valve cover height and will have the dipstick. If your engine has been replaced with a 1980 or newer vintage, it will look the same, but be on the passenger side.

Now if you don't see anything like that from above, it raises the interesting proposition that just perhaps your tube has broken off, and that would indeed dump a ton of oil out in a hurry.

Take a look and let us know what you see, perhaps snap a picture of the oil pan/block interface on both sides and post them?