Catch Cans for coolant overflow - what-ya-use?

I would like to see what creative things you guys n gals have come up with to use as coolant catch cans. Show us your pics!!!

 

Trojan, large reservoir.

 

Beer cans work well...empty them first!

R-

 

if it pisses, you probably dont have enough radiator. thats why almost all old cars do not have an overflow and you run em about an inch or so from the top.

 

My car has a gay ass jack daniels bottle its the only thing people notice about the car half the time... if you wont want it to be called "cute" just a normal bottle i cant wait to smash the bottle of j.d.

 

True, but I'm going to need one for running at the track and thought it would be much better using something different than what's offered in catalogs these days.

 

I use an empty can of octane booster(metal). NHRA legal. The Tuner kids all think it is somekind of 'nahs' system.Sparky

 

a vintage STP gas treatment can...on my superstock style 66 Dart:
(more pics on my website, address below)

 

I use an old pull tab PBR can........ Bill

 

I picked this up recently... an old Go Kart gas can. I'll have to come up with a cap and hose fitting but the bottom already has 2 tapped holes. I'll plug one and put a petcock in the other.

 

I used a can of Marvels Mystery Oil - cause it was the oldest looking CAN on the shelf I didn't care about. Since then I've been looking for OLD auto related cans - cool graphics - stuff like UPPER LUBE -Mcmillan Oil - STP - etc. I've found a couple COOL one's. The one I keep wanting to make up is a......... naw I better fab it up first - don't want any one copying it until it's on my car.

 

i dont have a pic but my bud just used a martini shaker in his forty truck. it looks kick ass.

 

Usung an old Moon tank I found at a swap for $40 with the spinner cap.

 

This could start a run. Old canteens, ww2 has a metal cap and some korea. after 54 ,i think they all had plastic caps .works good.

 

i used a stainless coffee thermas on my old buick, nobody knew until i told em.

 

I haven't mounted it yet, but I have a 90 year old Johnny Walker bottle, that an buddy of mine gave me, promising that is would hold up to the heat. When he gave it to me I asked if it was a bit insane using something that old, (due to the value) and his response was, "Maybe, but your car is like 70 years old and you're going to drive the wheels off it." I like how he thinks!

No need for a label, this baby's clear glass and embossed 'John Walker & Sons, LTD., Kilmornoch, Scotland'.

Vance

 

Jim Beam bottle.... I drank it the first time, I let the neighborhood cats drink it the 2nd time, 3rd time, etc....

I've broke 2 so far, can't wait to break the current one so I have an excuse to break another to give me an excuse to drink another! Plus it helps me keep warm in the garage, as long as I don't get stupid and break my windshield by kicking it.... and then ask how i can fix it....

 

How 'bout a WWI Army canteen?...will have pics shortly...

 

Another STP can.

 

Those red rubber enema bags are old timey,and cool huh?Sparky

 

You could use one of those old skinny brass carbon-tet fire extinguishers.

I plan to use a newer aluminum fire extinguisher I have. About the size of a propane torch bottle. I plan to strip the paint and polish it first.

 

Vintage Pabst Blue Ribbon can, has " no opener needed" on can. Can't remember when first pull tabs came out, mid 60s?

Anyway it passed tech @ HAMB drags and Continental's Day of the Drag Race.

 

running an old elco tank with the fliptop on my A

 

I run a bicycle cage and a water bottle.

 

hey...a catch can....good thinkin, i've just been using the ground .

i've seen at local junk shops tons of old beer cans, i always wanted to find the one that jus said "BEER" on it. white can, black lettering! my buddy johnny is a pilot, he's got a piss cup that he uses on long flights, like a 'pee-canteen' .it's a red plastic jug...dammit it has a funny name and i can't think of it. They make the "lady jane adapter" for lady pilots...now that would be humorous to use.

 

You could always use a Massengil bottle;even leave the applicator on it and run the hose into that.

 

HaHaHa...I love it.

 

I've got an old Winchester gunpowder cannister with a screw cap, all metal, holds about a pint.

Flatman

 

[I used one in my terraplane, took it apart cut off pump, drilled a hole through the handle for a vent then soldered back together. Used wall mount to hold it to the fire wall,works. QUOTE=Frank]You could use one of those old skinny brass carbon-tet fire extinguishers.

I plan to use a newer aluminum fire extinguisher I have. About the size of a propane torch bottle. I plan to strip the paint and polish it first.[/QUOTE]

 

Heres one I just built for Johnny Gringo's T roadster truck bein hes from the south I only thought this was fitting for his delux ride.Its a pull top dummie can tab still on the top so its a sealed can with a amal petcock from a triumph on the bottom for drainin purposes.

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