Antique Engine Oils:
 

Found this in the shop's attic. The price tag reads .59 cents....

Perhaps a bit of a collector or display item now? I was just sitting here wondering when the last of the metal cans where still common.

The seventies?

Frank from Pickers would want it.;)

Is that a metal can or a paperboard tube with metal ends? The spiral impression on the label leads me to believe it is paperboard

Interesting....trying to remember the last time I shoved one of those metal spouts in one of those cans.

Paperboard...

looks like the cans our shop used in the mid 80's only it was quaker state.
our shop had a large cabinet with hooks to drain the dregs into a bottle for use.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_WubeN06WLX...f1ebae10_b.jpg:eek::eek::eek:

We put all the bottles in a big funnel and drain the dregs. I throw it in my fuel tank once a week....

now THIS is an old pennzoil can!

notice it does not have the metric volume notation...
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_WubeN06WLX...3c9d7d36_b.jpg

in ME and african countries you can still buy 1 litre oil in metal cans and their sharp metal spouts too.

I have also seen a 4L oil packed by Idemitsu Japan in a square 4 litre container with no opening, You had to hammer a metal spout in it - and it was in the late 90s

I only have 1 old school Quaker state can. I wish I had more

I went through about 40 cases a week at the old shop... every wednesday we'd stop at the supply house and load up the van with cases of the stuff... never thought about holding onto a can...

A friend of mine has a paperboard can of factory Mercedes Benz oil, ill have to get a pciture next time I am there

I recently saw the metal spout that punctured the cans out in my wood shed.