Oil Cans and More

Oil Cans and More

A few more items from my garage collection.

*Justrite Mfg. Co. Chicago - 1 gallon oil cans.
*Some oil can spouts
*Mobil drum - now my garbage can
*1964 Chevy C-10 Hot Rod- 383 stroker motor & 12 bolt posi rear end(The wire you see hanging out of the hood is my battery tender.)
*Pennzoil can with spout
*And in the background, Eddie Hill and the Pennzoil Top Fuel dragster. Or as some remember the nickname...."The Nuclear Banana". Sadly I had the same picture with his autograph but I gave it to a friend.

Since 1906, Justrite has been recognized as an industry leader in the safe management of flammable liquids and other hazardous materials.

They're in amazing shape and they could be used as intended today.

EDDIE HILL
In 1960, he set the NHRA record for the largest improvement in the elapsed time (e.t.) when he drove the quarter mile in 8.84 seconds to break the previous 9.40-second record.
Hill raced at open competitions and Top Fuel events from 1955 until he retired in 1966. After opening a motorcycle shop, he returned several years later to race motorcycles.
After attending a drag boat event in 1974 and he won championships in all of the major boat drag racing sanctioning bodies. Hill set the lowest wet elapsed time (e.t.) record with a 5.16-second run, which was lower than the land drag racing record of 5.39 seconds. He quit water drag racing after he suffered broken bones at a crash in Arizona and returned to land drag racing in 1985.

(I remember he had black eyes for like 6 months from that crash. It was pretty horrific.

Hill set the all-time speed record at a National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) event in 1987, becoming the first person to hold both the land and water speed records simultaneously.

My favorite quote from Eddie Hill after being asked by a reporter what does it feel like to drive a top fuel dragster....
"When you launch there's so much G-force it feels like getting hit in the head with a hammer. Then when you pull the chutes it feels like someone hit you in the head with a shovel."