Paper oil cans

[El Rat]

If you are under 60 you won’t believe it. If you are over 68 or so it probably brought memories. Note: obviously the ends were tin.

 

[dakota tom]

I have some Trop-arctic paper quarts. Some still full, some have leaked. They are on a shelf in an old garage and oil has soaked through the siding. I don't think paint is going to stick there anymore.

 

[dakota tom]

I think there may be some Harley-Davidson quarts here also.

 

[62BillT]

I remember well. They sure did leak, even when fairly new.

All tin cans soon followed.

Plastic today are a waste in my opinion. They should go back to all tin.

Who still has their metal can opener with the spout? I still have mine, lol.

 

[dakota tom]

Can

 

[IMBVSUR?]

You might need to adjust that age slightly. Will be 57 next month and I remember them well.

 

[scott hall]

Me too I’m 50

 

[El Rat]

Ok

 

[La Hot Rods]

 

[boxerdog]

Reminds me of several times when I went to pound in one of those handy metal spouts which leaked anyway, then the cardboard buckled and you had a mess!

 

[409gang]

I still have about 3 cases of full cardboard oil cans in the basement, and those are 24 cans to a case.

 

[409gang]

I worked at a couple Mobil stations back in the day before self serve gas stations, you would wash the windows and check the oil on every car while it was filling up. Those push in spouts always leaked, you had to wrap a paper towel or shop rag around the can while filling.

 

[Barry Taylor]

Gave away three quarts of Penzoil ATF couple of years ago. They were starting to weep just a little.

 

[dakota tom]

With the spout there was always some oil left in the can. I remember in one station they had a rack for the cans to drain completely and would sell that oil to customers that wanted cheap oil for their car.

 

[blkblk63ss]

I had filling station for about a year till I got my fill of it, hard to find good help ,long hours just got tired of it. Anyway I would sell quarts of drain oil from cans half price to the oil burners. Lol I even had a guy with a old ranchero wanted 90 weight for his oil burning engine .

 

[Phil Reed]

With the spout there was always some oil left in the can. I remember in one station they had a rack for the cans to drain completely and would sell that oil to customers that wanted cheap oil for their car.

Give me $2.00 of regular and fill it up with bulk oil!!!!!!!!!

 

[dm62409]

Valvoline, Phillips 66, Zephyr, and Sunoco are paper cans Earlier STP were paper also. . Others are tin.

 

[IMBVSUR?]

I didn't drain the oil cans, however I would do oil changes, then record that I sold each quart separately and a filter that someone wanted. The oil change fee? What oil change? Lets just say it got donated to the poor

 

[64ss409]

Those tin oil cans would rattle around in a jeep for several years. Then they came out with cardboard cans. One afternoon of rough trail riding and they started to leak.

 

[62BillT]

We also had a Bulk Oil drain rack at the Texaco station I worked at. We sold it for 25 Cents a quart. A friend of mine had a '65 Mustang that smoked like a freight train. I would sell him Bulk Oil, till he realized he could get the pit oil for free, lol. No telling how many quarts I gave him.