Many old Connies flew out their lives in the Carribean being used as freighters. Some even had rubbed out Pan Am and TWA paintwork on the side. Sea transport was unloaded by lighters that would cause half the load to disappear between the ship and shore so V&As, like perfume, cigarettes went by air.
I went over one at Belize. The tyres were soaked in oil and the inside of the cabin was lined with thin plywood. The flight engineer was just filling in some paperwork. The problem was with No 4 which they had to feather on the way in. He had solved that but there was still a problem with No 3's oil consumption and the were shutting that down after take off and restarting it before landing.
Later on a Connie forced landed at Belize. I believe, not having been there at the time or seen the accident report, that it had a prop overun that flew off and took out an adjacent inboard engine that rotated on its bearers and jammed the undercarriage. The whole shooting match landed in a considerable state of disrepair on one main and nosewheel but conveniently ended up clear of the runway. Despite being in the most heavily guarded airfield in Central America in slowly disappeared, except for the propellers, in a few weeks.