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Originally Posted by extrashaky
. People actually carried extra cans and a spout in the trunk, and they remembered to punch the air hole in the other side so it would flow without excessive glugging.
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Which was an absolute bitch when you didn't need a full quart. It was not uncommon to just let it keep getting lower until you needed more than a quart so you wouldn't have the hassle of an open can. Mind you the engines that were around when oil was in cans were far more tolerant of low oil then engines today. They also burned and blew more oil out though so sometimes the wait for a quart wasn't long.
I was amazed and overjoyed the first time I saw oil in a resealable plastic container!