Found this at an estate sale today tucked away in the back of a garage cabinet collecting dust. Now it'll sit in my garage for another four decades.
Any vintage Havoline fans here?
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Remember it well. My Dad was a Havoline fan, so we had cans like that and the later multi-viscosity Havoline in our garage.
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I used Havoline in my first car a 1975 Malibu 
Used it lots of times.
I'm a fan of all old and vintage oils. Great find and excellent condition.
What is the date code on the can.
Growing up in East Texas, Havoline was a very popular oil for cars, trucks and some farm machinery.
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I used Havoline in older cars and never gave it a thought. Of course, I knew nothing about oil at that time and now believe this product is of good quality. Now I know a little about oil that I've learned on BITOG.
Lots of memories of Havoline, first with a metal can and then the cardboard cans. One had to be careful with the oil spout. If it wasn’t inserted straight and vertical it would puncture the cardboard side causing a leak.
Good old Texaco. Sky Chief and Fire Chief gasoline.
Good old Texaco. Sky Chief and Fire Chief gasoline.
Found this at an estate sale today tucked away in the back of a garage cabinet collecting dust. Now it'll sit in my garage for another four decades.
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Back in the days of the round metal and then cardboard cans, Havoline had a very peculiar and strong odor.
Just like medicine, I figured that made it better for you !
Date code is 7-78
Go to the Star !!!!!!
I think the oil companies should put out special oil cans like the Havoline one here.
Current spec oil in them too. API SP and Dexos...
Not a whole, whole bunch of them. Just some.
Who would like to see a Sinclair oil can ?? With the dinosaur on it.
Or say a old school ExxonMobil oil can with current API SP and Dexos oil in it ?? With the Pegasus on it ....
Even a Cam2 old school oil can...
Or a old school Kendall oil can ??
It's advertising... Collectible... And ultimately useful if needed to be or not if one chooses not to use it.
I think the oil companies should put out special oil cans like the Havoline one here.
Current spec oil in them too. API SP and Dexos...
Not a whole, whole bunch of them. Just some.
Who would like to see a Sinclair oil can ?? With the dinosaur on it.
Or say a old school ExxonMobil oil can with current API SP and Dexos oil in it ?? With the Pegasus on it ....
Even a Cam2 old school oil can...
Or a old school Kendall oil can ??
It's advertising... Collectible... And ultimately useful if needed to be or not if one chooses not to use it.
Back in my childhood days my Dad had a old Texaco gear lube barrel he got from the service station he went to. They were going to toss it so he took it, cleaned it up, ( don’t ask) and put sawdust in it from his wood shop workings. The sawdust was used to soak up oil spills which happened a lot when we did the oil change on the 54 Chevy with the cantankerous canister oil filter set up that was on it. I believe it was white and green with Texaco and the Star on it.
My brother still has that barrel.
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Used Havoline in all my vehicles through the late 70's and 80's.
Never had any problem.
My Dad always used it with no problems as well.
Never had any problem.
My Dad always used it with no problems as well.
Great posts. Love the retro oil/ gasoline signs. Want to get some for my garage some day.
I was owner of a Texaco Express Lube.
Really liked the products and the company as a whole.
See user name.
Really liked the products and the company as a whole.
See user name.
Outside of legal bullhockey, there's no reason why an innovative producer could not revive some of the graphics of old!
Come on, Chevron, you can do it!
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My dad (GRHS) was an avid Valvoline and Havoline user. Great memories. Miss ya Pop. 
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