Vintage motor oil?

[slowpat]

You can use these when changing oil in your vintage car! Is that like using NOS vintage capacitors to restore your vintage amp?

https://sfbay.craigslist.org/sby/ele/d/22-cans-of-this-vintage-motor/6637088019.html

 

[faber12]

Period correct!

 

[Pio1980]

Good for turntable spindle bearings.

 

[BillWojo]

Shelf queens is all I'd use that stuff for. Not that it went bad it's just that modern motor oil is SOOOO much better. It's the major reason that engines routinely last several hundred's of thousand miles.
Today's higher temperatures require better materials but most importantly oils that won't break down into sludge like the oils of years ago.

BillWojo

 

[Dazaa]

The value isn't in the oil it's in the packaging as a display item. Those seem really cheap, I bet they're worth 20/30 each on ebay.

 

[John James]

Somebody call the guy from "American Pickers"!

 

[alteclipsch]

I remember those cans, you needed one of those pointed can openers. Weren't they called church keys?

 

[rickiroo]

This is what we used back in the day.

 

[swechsler]

Yup, I remember those spouts, but by the time I started driving and changing my oil pretty much all oil manufacturers had transitioned to using the plastic bottles that they use now. But oil was only a buck a quart.

And get off my lawn...

 

[dosmalo]

I remember when it went up to 60 cents a quart - we were horrified.

 

[c.coyle]

The value isn't in the oil it's in the packaging as a display item. Those seem really cheap, I bet they're worth 20/30 each on ebay.

My mechanic has a beautiful collection of old automotive fluids. The containers are gorgeous. Many different shapes. Lots of long forgotten brands. Not just motor oil, Marvel Mystery Oil, all kinds of additives, brake fluids, etc.

 

[John James]

My mechanic has a beautiful collection of old automotive fluids. The containers are gorgeous. Many different shapes. Lots of long forgotten brands. Not just motor oil, Marvel Mystery Oil, all kinds of additives, brake fluids, etc.

 

[c.coyle]

Well, I'll have to ask him for permission next time I'm in there.

 

[zebra03]

I have some old Emblem oil in Metal cans .

 

[Djcoolray]

SAE 30 weight oil belongs on a shelf.....

Back then they use to mix paraffin into distilled petroleum....a type of wax to reduce friction between moving parts. I use to change my oil monthly on high performance engines so the rings and bearings would last longer. Synthetic oil is so much better, so there isn’t really any actual use for SAE any more other than a static display.

 

[jcamero]

Only for Beer.

I remember those cans, you needed one of those pointed can openers. Weren't they called church keys?

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[jcamero]

In 1968, my parents bought their current home at a real estate auction. We knew the owners, 3 "Old Maids" none of which ever married. Their car came with the house, a '39 Mercury. In the garage were numerous stone crocks full of used oil. Apparently they kept the oil, after oil changes. So Dad got a vintage car, and vintage oil too. BTW, the car ran so quiet, when driving on gravel, you only heard the gravel moving under the tires, no motor/exhaust sounds whatsoever.

 

[toxcrusadr]

I bet those stone crocks were worth a few bucks once the oil was cleaned out...

I have a quart of WalMart oil from the 80s with the old font. Looks like they changed it in '81.

 

[zebra03]

Walmart oil is like Yorx stereo .

 

[alteclipsch]

This is what we used back in the day.

I do remember those, they were neat, if a little messy. My cars back then either leaked or burned oil because they were so old and worn out, so I had one and a couple quarts of cheap oil in the trunk.