I tried searching but didn’t have any luck so I’m starting this thread. I have a couple different quart bottles, one pint bottle and this one that I believe is smaller than a pint. See pictures attached. I’m thinking the one that is smaller than the pint bottle is older than the rest but I haven’t researched it yet. Just a gut feeling
VINTAGE OIL BOTTLES…
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1930artdeco
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I have one that still has some oil residue still in it. But the reason I bought it was that it has the cap still on it. I will try and post a pic tonight.
Mike
Mike
That’s Kewl looking forward to seeing the picture
1930artdeco
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That’s a beauty!!
Shiftless
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Many of us are old enough to remember service stations that had bulk oil drums in the back with hand crank dispensers to fill those glass bottles for dispensing into customers’ cars.
Can anybody remember what a quart of that oil cost back in the late ‘50s or early ‘60’s ?
4xdog
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I remember the Certified station in my southeastern Ohio hometown in the late 1960s with a rack of glass oil bottles on the end of the island, including used oil(!) sold cheap. It wasn’t bad looking oil, TBH.
four.cycle
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I remember the garages with the wooden floors that were oil-soaked and grimy, and the big square tanks with the manually-operated pumps and the glass bottles, but I do not remember the prices.
I do recall that when we had to raise our oil prices in 1977, and we set the price of Pennzoil 10W-40 to 39 cents a quart, customers came in and called us names, told us it was highway robbery, and said bad things about our mothers.
Go figure.
Here’s a recent addition to my glass oil bottles… I came across a set of 8 plastic oil bottles… one one side is the line for a quart (not imperial) and in the other side is the line for a litre. I’m thinking they came after the glass bottles and b4 you could buy oil in the local store in plastic one quart or litre rectangular shape…
