Here's a couple more. I have first hand knowledge, in that I saw the Pennzoil given to the racer or his crew, of Michael Waltrip, Dick LaHaie, and Whit Bazemore. I have friends who have first hand knowledge of Grumpy Jenkins and Bill Elliot (when he was sponsored by Citgo) of receiving Pennzoil racing oil. Jenkins on sponsorship, and Elliot paying cash.
One of my favorite stories is when I was at the Indy Car race at Nazareth around 1989. There was about a dozen empty Pennzoil 20W-50 bottles on the ground around Rick Mears car when the crew was thrashing in the pits. I asked if I could have one, and one of the crew kicked one over to me on the other side of the ropes. I took it into the office on Monday and called Oil City and asked for information on the batch of oil that was recorded by a code printed on the bottom of the bottle. I was given blending and packaging dates, etc, but what I remember best is that the batch was 25,000 gallons. Any batch that large was no special blend, but just what anyone could buy off the shelf.
