Good morning folks. I remember I was 15 and I bought a wix filter for my Pontiac sunbird. Bought dad a wix for his 92’ Dakota too. At a small mom and pop auto parts store. Do you remember the first oil filter you bought?
First oil filter you bought?
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Quite honestly, no. I got my first car in 1982. Pretty sure the oil was 10W40 but the filter? Been too long…
Napa silver for my Eclipse
First car was an air-cooled VW with a rock catcher screen. Second car was a 1974 Capri that took, IIRC, an FL300. I'm sure that I also bought the Sears equivalent.
I can't remember but I assume the first one I ever bought myself was an orange can, because that's all Dad ever used, and he had a shelf full of them. PH8A seems to be the number? Fit any Ford up to some point?
It was an STP filter for my 1989 Mazda 323. I just met my gf (now wife) and she had just done her first OCI with her brother. I had wanted to get into that but lived in an apartment. So I went over to her place and got it done.
It was $1.97 at walmart and came in a box with a little cellophane window. It was highly rated on the "minimopar filter study" that still exists!
It was $1.97 at walmart and came in a box with a little cellophane window. It was highly rated on the "minimopar filter study" that still exists!
Part number 17-1728 Canadian Tire house branded oil filter for my 1970 Pontiac. This is the usual PF24 "BOP" short filter. It was 40+ years ago so I have no idea who actually made the filter. When I started working at a local speed shop while going to University (I had my Buick by then, same filter number), I used mostly Purolator as those were one of the jobber filters we carried that I got staff pricing on. I don't have invoices that old but I seem to recall filters were in the $3 range (my cost) back then.
Purolator because that's way Dad stocked at his shop.
Then, when I bought an oil filter on my own after Dad retired and sold his shop, I bought LEE Maxi & FRAM
Then, when I bought an oil filter on my own after Dad retired and sold his shop, I bought LEE Maxi & FRAM
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HP1 for an air cooled VW when I bought an oil filter kit for it.
Would have been a Fram at Target in the 80’s. Back then Target had an auto service center. They also sold guns. Horrors! 
Didn't WalMart also sell guns? Maybe it was only rifles and maybe they still do?Would have been a Fram at Target in the 80’s. Back then Target had an auto service center. They also sold guns. Horrors!
My first oil filter was a Mopar MO-090 for my Jeep Cherokee 4.0L.
Fram Extra Guard. Pay me now, or pay me later.
WIX, I was in HS shop class. I remember my dad complaining to me how expensive it was.
