Any opinion on Wolf's Head oil???

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My local distributor has a rack of oil for $1.50/quart. Among them is 5W30 Castrol, Valvoline and Wolf's Head. Also 5w20 in Motorcraft, Kendall syn. blend and Mobil 5000. Anybody have experience with Wolf's Head? He say's it's a Pennzoil product, probably weaker additive pack.
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Click on search above, click on car and truck lubrication, type in Wolf's Head. Somewhere on there I posted a short history of Wolf's Head. Yes to your last two comments.
 
"Use Wolf's Head 30 weight. It'll never let you down."
Search this site, there are several references to Wolf's Head. Apparantly it is a SOPUS product.
A little history also. Wolf's Head was gobbled up at one point by Standard.
"Pennzoil maintained its small gasoline distribution business while concentrating on the lubricants business. A controlling interest in Elk Refining was purchased in 1952, adding Keystone stations to the company. In 1955, South Penn completed the purchase of Pennzoil and Pennzip started to be replaced by the Pennzoil brand. Pennzoil Oil had sufficent exposure and the gasoline marketing was no longer an issue. In 1963, Pennzoil purchased Gulf Coast Oil producers Stetco and Zapata. Wolf's Head Refining and its gas stations were also purchased in 1963, as well as completing the Elk purchase. All the company's stations were re-branded Pennzoil in 1965, and the National Transit Company was added to its holdings in 1965. In 1968, Fleet-Wing was purchased from Sohio. Within five years, most of its stations were re-branded Pennzoil. In 1973 Pennzoil purchased Pennsylvania Refining Company, adding its Penn-Drake and Pennreco stations to its network."
 
I used to run Wolf's Head 15W40 in my old VW diesel. It seemed pretty decent, and from what I can remember it wasn't that expensive either. My Carquest store stocked it before they switched nearly everything over to their Carquest labeled Valvoline.

It was either that, or Farm Rated 15W40 from Fleet Farm, but I was never sure of who made that oil, just that it was cheap. For a high school kid on a budget it was fine, and I always changed it way before the 3000 mile OCI I'd been engrained with. It was a win-win situation...I'd get credit in auto shop to change my own car's oil.

Man, I miss that car. 50+ MPG, and at the time diesel was less than a buck a gallon! I'd go 3 weeks on 5 bucks!
 
Back in 1997 when I was in High School , my shop teacher told me that he only used Wolf's Head because they were "American oil from American land".

I saw a couple quarts ate Menards
 
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