1995 Sunoco 5w30

[lucky7901]

I have a small business and sometimes real estate agents ask me to clean out the basements and such and it's amazing what some guys keep in basement for decades.

Found an old quart of unopened oil that you guys might like to see.

 

[Hermann]

I remember that bottle style, thanks for the memory.

 

[The_Jeff]

I remember my dad showing me the "weird" way to pour oil so it doesn't glug with that style bottle, as depicted with the embossed graphic.

Remember, oil came in cans until the mid 1980s so this was still a novelty at press time.

Then Exxon/Mobil came out with the wide mouth quarts around y2k and everyone thought, duh, that's even better!

 

[k1xv]

I remember, as a kid, at gas stations they had filled glass quart containers of motor oil with no labels. I assume they filled these from a 55 gallon drum. If you needed to add a quart, this is what they put in. Who knows what it was.

 

[daves87rs]

Seen that bottle before….

 

[ka9mnx]

My '93 F150 would love that oil.

 

[Nessism1]

I remember, as a kid, at gas stations they had filled glass quart containers of motor oil with no labels. I assume they filled these from a 55 gallon drum. If you needed to add a quart, this is what they put in. Who knows what it was.

I pumped gas for a year before starting college, and we had those cylinder shaped containers where a spout was pierced in to the top. Union 76. Straight 30 or, I think, 10W-40 was our standard stuff. The cheap boss loved it when we sold oil, because the profit was about 5x on cost.

 

[Kira]

An old garage owner I knew kept his vehicles oiled with drippings from cardboard cans.
A copper pipe, slotted to hold the cans' rolled edge was mounted at a smart angle. It was smartly done.
He sure didn't care about contamination.

 

[Tdbo]

Went through several cases of that back in the day.
One of the local stores sold that, and in conjunction with a MIR, made that either free or almost free.