Long time lurker, first time...etc. LOOK AT MY CANS!

[D-Spec]

Sorry no babe pics here. I've been lurking on the forum for a while reading threads and what not and decided to do some "picking" of sorts. Saw an ad for old oil and garage stuff and decided to go see whats what.

Pics of the shelf when I got there.

My haul.

Not too shabby for some decor once I get my garage sorted out.

 

[D-Spec]

Oh and the blue roller cart was 5 bucks.

 

[motorcycle79]

Sweet

 

[lotsoftools]

Cool. I remember using those kind of oil cans back in the day when I worked at a full service gas station. In fact, I still have a spout that stabs into the can for pouring.

 

[NUTTSGT]

At three dollars a can, ol' Frank would have bought them all.

 

[Kevin54]

You didn't get any of the old Coke bottles?

 

[johnny]

Nice set of cans.

 

[bajones238]

Interested in selling any? If so please send me a PM.

 

[CamarosRus]

Are the above round cans metal or cardboard........

I have round cardboard Pennzoil Racing cans from the late 1970's. (unopened)

What might they be worth each on EBAY ???

 

[wellpoison]

i wouldve deffinately scooped them all, easily worth 5 each at a flea market.

 

[Murphy4570]

I would have bought them all at $3 a pop. If any are full metal, and not cardboard, they're worth a bit more than $3.

 

[D-Spec]

Well they are a mix of cardboard and plastic but they are in great shape. I thought about buying them all but she had much more than I showed in the pic and it would have ran me several hundred to buy them all. Didn't have enough room to store or transport or the time to sell or ship. So I took the ones I deemed pretty enough to decorate with and that's about it. The Valvoline sign I got at a different sale for a dollar, it was hidden behind some other junk.

 

[Lippyp]

Nice find, I picked up a bunch of old oil cans over easter at a flea market in France, various brands from BP, Shell, Total etc, most I think are probably 60's/70's but the prize find was a 2L Mobiloil Gargoyle AF oil can from the 1930's for eight euros.

 

[Ole_Red]

Somewhere I have some old Texaco Cans that I was planning to sell.... I should find those...

 

[autoclassicnut]

Somewhere I have some old Texaco Cans that I was planning to sell.... I should find those...

P.M. sent Ole Red...

 

[Ole_Red]

P.M. sent Ole Red...

10-4 good buddy

 

[D-Spec]

I know some people are into the oil cans all ******** and stuff, but I just got them for a little decor in the hell hole that is my garage. I'm not a collector or anything, I'm just a regular joe with a 2 car and a minty Acura. Hell 99% of my tools are metric (no lie I keep the SAE stuff in a junk drawer cause I've never used it)! My dad used to tell me when I was a teenager to hand him tools for working on his Harley like a 22/37ths or something and I ask him what's that in metric... wonder why he never comes over???

 

[rockchucker]

"Nobody makes Sheriff Buford T. Justice look like a possum's pecker."

lol...


Very nice Cans. I would have bought them all. Slowly distributed them over the years to my Wrenchin' buddies.

 

[Nozzlejocky]

Nice haul. I have a few in my garage for deco too. I think they look pretty cool on a shelf.

 

[DIYKiah]

Cool find!

 

[D-Spec]

"Nobody makes Sheriff Buford T. Justice look like a possum's pecker."

lol...


Very nice Cans. I would have bought them all. Slowly distributed them over the years to my Wrenchin' buddies.

Now get me a Diablo Sammich a Dr. Pepper and make it snappy I'm in a goddamn hurry. (yells to JR) YOU WANT SOMETHING?

"Hushpuppies daddy..."

"WE AIN'T GOT TIME FOR THAT ****!!" (under breath) dumb sumbitch

 

[DynoDave]

Great buy! I love these old things. Don't collect them, or have a whole lot of them, but they sure bring back memories.

The day the oil can world changed for me: I used to work for a lady who kept her car in an old time brick multi-story downtown parking garage...cool place. I was in school and working for minimum wage, and she talked the owners into letting me park my old car there too. This place had a gas pump, wash bay and did oil changes too. They had a whole wall of shelves lined with cans of oil. I walked in one day to get my car, and they were taking down all those cool old cans, and putting up plastic bottles. I knew the end of the world was near.