tigerbeetle
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- Jan 2, 2009
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- Metal Detecting
Oddish petroliana finds. After digging some decent 1920s milks and sodas, I began hitting a slew of these showy celluloid wire attachments. They're meaningless doohickeys meant to place on engine wires under a vehicle's hood -- to show you they're hot on Oilzum oil. The Oilzum Company sure adopted a strange logo image.
By the by, while celluloid is highly flammable and burns insanely hot it resists in-ground weathering like few other plastic-like materials. These Oilzum items were buried for nearly a century but still look mighty fine.
So, why the burglar-ish face? Hey, their oil was most popular back in the Roaring Twenties so maybe gangsters felt safer using an oil close to their hearts. Truth be told, it was also big with the precursors to NASCAR. Per the company, “Oilzum was positioned as ‘The Choice of Champions’, and was used by professional drivers across the country winning several Indianapolis 500 races. Oilzum was used to set early land speed records.”
Still an odd image.
By the by, while celluloid is highly flammable and burns insanely hot it resists in-ground weathering like few other plastic-like materials. These Oilzum items were buried for nearly a century but still look mighty fine.
So, why the burglar-ish face? Hey, their oil was most popular back in the Roaring Twenties so maybe gangsters felt safer using an oil close to their hearts. Truth be told, it was also big with the precursors to NASCAR. Per the company, “Oilzum was positioned as ‘The Choice of Champions’, and was used by professional drivers across the country winning several Indianapolis 500 races. Oilzum was used to set early land speed records.”
Still an odd image.
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