Originally Posted by IndyFan
Originally Posted by Bighorn2500
I think it was Quaker State FS 4x4 oil in the clear 1 quart bottles.
I still have a bottle of QS in a clear bottle. I loved those bottles! If they sold it that way today, I'd probably buy it and run it.
One neat thing...It is a bottle of 10w30 and it sat undisturbed for a number of years. There was no settling or separating of any components. It looked the same when I picked it up, looked at it, and topped off a lawnmower as when it was new.
I have about five cases of the clear bottle QS. It's more than ten years old, but I'm still using it.
Funny story how I got it. The boss at the P-QS distribution center got a communication saying that three pallets, 2 of 5W-30 and 1 of 10W-30, had to be bulked. What was wrong with it, he asked? Nothing, there was a mistake on the label that couldn't be released to the public for liability reasons. I never found out what that was. Rather than bulking it, the boss let all the area employees have ten cases. After everyone got some, round two commenced, and so on until it was gone. I must have ended up with 40 or so cases. I was changing oil on four cars at the time, so it was a welcome windfall.
And first synthetic purchase? That would be Mobil 1 around 1979. I didn't use synthetic again until Jiffy Lube forced Pennzoil to sell a synthetic around 1990.