I’m stumped as to why

[jorgeinmiami]

So I took off the head today and found that the lowest piston is shot. Nearest I can think is that the engine sat for awhile had a stuck ring and when I cranked it up it sounded like it was stuck but let loose and here are the results. You can see where a small part came off the piston at around the 3 o'clock position and then damaged the piston around the 12 o'clock position. The cylinder wall amazingly did not get damaged. I also found plenty if deposits in the cooling system especially down low.

Options are

Sell for parts
Have someone rebuild it.
Or have fun and do it myself.... although I've never done this before.

I mean what's the worse that can happen