A hand holding up two fingers. That's the mark — no animal, no crown, no portrait, just a gesture standing in for a number, because the number was the entire product. Kendall sold two thousand miles between oil changes at a time when most drivers were changing oil every five hundred.
Printed on a Gildan 18500 heavy blend hooded sweatshirt — 8 oz cotton-poly, classic fit, double-lined hood with a color-matched drawcord and a front pouch pocket. Tubular knit with no side seams. Tear-away label. Machine wash cold, tumble dry low.
Kendall refined in Bradford, Pennsylvania, and Pennsylvania-grade crude was the premium feedstock of the American oil industry — naturally paraffinic, and the basis for a whole regional marketing argument that ran for decades. Oilzum makes the same claim from Worcester, Massachusetts, in almost the same words. Two companies, one shared boast about where the oil came out of the ground.
The perfect gift for the collector who works Pennsylvania-grade brands, the mechanic who still argues about oil change intervals, the restorer with a shelf of vintage quarts, the dad who changes his own oil on principle, and anyone who wants a logo that's just a hand making a point.
The Faded Label Co. — keeping the golden age of American roadside art alive, one product at a time.
