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hershey
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Boy O Boy! Have we come a long way. Remember the old Texaco Havalin oil? It would sludge up an engine to the point that the sludge took over the voids in the rocker arm covers.
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fchammer1
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I remember glass bottles with the screw-on spouts. They were filled from a larger barrel that had a crank that I turned to pump the oil into the bottle. Another of my early (age 5-6) jobs was to drain the "used" bottle into another so that by the end of the day I had another bottle of motor olil that was 100% profit! That was my pay.
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hershey
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fchammer1 wrote:I remember glass bottles with the screw-on spouts. They were filled from a larger barrel that had a crank that I turned to pump the oil into the bottle. Another of my early (age 5-6) jobs was to drain the "used" bottle into another so that by the end of the day I had another bottle of motor olil that was 100% profit! That was my pay.
Back in 1962 I was in the service and bought a '55 Ford that was in very poor mechanical condition. They fellow GI's would all pitch in a few coins and for a dollar, I could get 90 cents worth of gas and a dime would buy a quart of the oil you eluded to.
It always paid to have a car full of guys for gas money or to get a push start when the darn thing wouldn't start 
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fchammer1
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Let's go back a wee bit farther... I pumped gasoline at $019.9 when the Atlantic station up the road and my dad's Sunoco station participated in a "gas war." I remember breaking the windshield wiper on a '30 Model A Ford and the owner went berserk! That was 1949 and I was six years old. 41 years later, I bought my own '31 Model A sports coupe and understood the guy's anger. That was a car to love!
By the way, Quaker State oil would also sludge up an engine back then.
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Raften
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fchammer1 wrote:I remember glass bottles with the screw-on spouts. They were filled from a larger barrel that had a crank that I turned to pump the oil into the bottle. Another of my early (age 5-6) jobs was to drain the "used" bottle into another so that by the end of the day I had another bottle of motor olil that was 100% profit! That was my pay.
I remember turning the crank to fill the bottles. Cheapest gas I remember was 24 cents/gal. I could cruse main street all evening on $1.00.
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Cloud Dancer
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In the 50's, I attended Ysleta High (10 miles downriver from El Paso TX).
I always had a car, or two. Sometimes, during lunch period, we would drive across the border to Zaragoza. We'd buy gasoline for 11 cents, and go pay 50 cents for tacos and a beer, and see a free girly show.
Oh yeah, oil of choice was RPM.
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In the early seventies we still had a station with those quart jars with spouts of oil, in a wire crate, next to the pumps. The Attendants still wore those wheel caps with the little points like an umbrella.
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AKsilvereagle
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I always been a Valv-O-Line guy.
Union 76 in Los Angeles once had a gas war price of a low 29.9 cents per gallon to my existence as a young kid ..the normal price for a gallon of leaded regular was around the low 50 cent range.
I kept four oil cans for my collection until my stepbrother shot them up with BB's and got thrown away as they phased them oil cans out with todays plastic oil containers.
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In the 60's I had an old Austin A40 panel that I bought for $50. just to thrash around in. It burned oil so bad (almost as much oil as gas) that I would save the used oil from my other car, and everyone I knew and pour it in the Austin. I got way better oil mileage out of used oil. My Dad laughed and said it's sort of like re refined oil. I had more fun in that car than any other.
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