A stash from 60's on up. Various weights, 2 cycle oil, lithium grease, and loads of motor oil. My grandfather retired from Union oil in the early 70's and some of that was his.Him and my uncle just stockpiled it and this was what he didn't want after a while. I helped hm move and he paid me in free oil (he still kept some). It doesn't go bad!
Anybody else have a oil stash?
More importantly, do you have an oil can spout?
those will turn into collector items
ZOO wrote: More importantly, do you have an oil can spout?
Yes I do! I plan on using some of the old havoline in my datsun soon.
Just remember to shake it well first, the additives can settle out over time.
fasted58 wrote: those will turn into collector items
They already are worth good $$$
I only have 50 gallon drums stashed of burnt oil. I do however collect old shop manuals.
crankwalk wrote:ZOO wrote: More importantly, do you have an oil can spout?Yes I do! I plan on using some of the old havoline in my datsun soon.
I'd contact american pickers first, one of them is nuts for old oil cans.
I used to work for Amoco Oil Co. and I do have a few cans of their oil in the round containers. I just wish I had some of those glass crowns that they used to have on the tops of their gas pumps. One reason their rare today may be due to a story told to me by some "old timers" at Amoco when I first started back in 1978. They had "hundreds" of these glass crowns in the warehouse where they worked at the time (early 60's) and some supervisor one day comes by and see all these "obsolete" items and tells them to take them outside and SMASH THEM!
Better take that pic down before he come calling. 
crankwalk wrote: It doesn't go bad!
I'll disagree with that. I've got several quarts of Quakerstate jelly from back in the 70's. I've got several tins antique grease that are rock hard. I've admired unopened cans of oil from the 40's or so that rattle when you shake them.
Volatiles do what volatiles do, evaporate. Even through cardboard oil cans and the edges of tin can covers.
foxtrapper wrote:crankwalk wrote: It doesn't go bad!I'll disagree with that. I've got several quarts of Quakerstate jelly from back in the 70's. I've got several tins antique grease that are rock hard. I've admired unopened cans of oil from the 40's or so that rattle when you shake them. Volatiles do what volatiles do, evaporate. Even through cardboard oil cans and the edges of tin can covers.
It really depends on how they are stored I think. One of the tin can QS quarts from the 60's I opened and it was golden clear. Used it in my lawn mower. These were all in a cellar for their whole life.
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