Date on oil filter?

[68stangcjfb]

Does anyone know the date on this oil filter? The box it came in has an 11/67 date on it. Thanks in advance.

[Bob Gaines]

Does anyone know the date on this oil filter? The box it came in has an 11/67 date on it. Thanks in advance.

It looks to be February of 1967 by the date stamp on the filter.

[68stangcjfb]

Thank you Bob. Obviously this is correct for the 67-68 time frame prior to the logo changing to the one without the star. When car shows come back again,(hopefully sooner than later) I'm going to use this in my display for my 68 1/2 Cobra Jet Mustang.

[Bob Gaines]

Thank you Bob. Obviously this is correct for the 67-68 time frame prior to the logo changing to the one without the star. When car shows come back again,(hopefully sooner than later) I'm going to use this in my display for my 68 1/2 Cobra Jet Mustang.

Keep in mind that it would be of a display of a car after at least the first oil change and not after delivery from the dealer to the first customer like concours expectations typically are.

[68stangcjfb]

Yes. The filter on a Concours should be painted blue. Which is why it perplexes me that these filters go for so much money when people want to sell them. It must be because they look so cool!😁

[Bob Gaines]

Yes. The filter on a Concours should be painted blue. Which is why it perplexes me that these filters go for so much money when people want to sell them. It must be because they look so cool!😁

Agreed they are cool. Also you can tell the difference between the repro where they slid a sleeve over the exterior and you can see the sleeve end at the base of the filter along with slightly longer length of the repro. Even though it is painted the shape and differences still justify a high price over a repro IMO.

[68stangcjfb]

So a thoroughbred car would have to have one of these and they would have to paint it blue.😢

[Bob Gaines]

So a thoroughbred car would have to have one of these and they would have to paint it blue.😢

Yes that is what many do if you can't find a lunch box assemblyline blue one .

[shelbymann1970]

So a thoroughbred car would have to have one of these and they would have to paint it blue.😢

Yes that is what many do if you can't find a lunch box assemblyline blue one .

There used to be a LOT of lunch pail oil filters around here over the decades(my friend bought a bunch of black Rotunda ones at one time). My only mistake I made was in my younger years I didn't spend the time to go to garage sales in the Dearborn neighborhoods. I got a New Production line 68 Shelby/deluxe Mustang shift knob that a friend got out of a Dearborn garage sale for a buck(I gave him more) in 1994. And I remember the story of that Dearborn employee who had a BASEMENT full of whatever would fit in his coffee Thermos.... Gary