Oil signs and cans

[SteveH-CO]

Since the readers of this forum seem to like old oil signs and cans, I'll show a few that I have.

My uncle worked at a Conoco station before WWII, and got the big rectangular signs for Conoco oil. They were stashed under our family cabin since then, for use as scrap metal/roof patches.

I found the 1 gal. Kendall oil can at a church camp, and my father pointed out that '2000 mile oil' was a big deal when people were expecting to change it every 1000 miles (at the time).

The Greenseal oil (ironically from the Red Seal oil company) came from my father in law's garage attic in Michigan.

The Mopar bug/tar remover was my fathers, hailing from when he had a '57 Plymouth, (which was his 'worst car ever' until the '81 VW Rabbit). The can still has some product in it, which smells a lot like kerosene.

 

[30cal]

Very nice..those signs are not easily found. The Kendall "two fingers", meaning 2 thousand miles, was a marketing wiz when folks changed oil at 500 miles..

From Kendall history website:

"Koch acquired Kendall’s first producing property in 1917 and increased the firm’s producing holdings in the Bradford Field dramatically in the early 1920’s. Kendall initiated its first national marketing program in 1923 and placed its first full-page ad in The Saturday Evening Post in 1928. It was then, Koch introduced the slogan, “Kendall, the 2,000 Mile Oil”. At a time when automobile oil changes were made every 500 miles, the familiar Kendall logo illustrating a folded right hand with two fingers extended was a graphic reference to Kendall’s revolutionary 2,000 mile oil."