Originally Posted By: Canawler
Part of it seems to be lack of distribution. I was interested in trying some of the Brad Penn products but was told they have no locations anywhere near me to purchase it. Admittedly, I live closer to the other side of the state, but at least I'm still in the same state. I know I can buy by mail order but you get killed on the shipping costs and I don't want to be forced to purchase a case at a time.
This past weekend, my wife and I were visiting the oil region of PA (Titusville, Oil City, Oil Creek State Park) and I assumed the Brad Penn products would be widely available there. I stopped at 8 auto parts stores and no one, repeat.. no one, had ever heard of Brad Penn oil. I even happened by an oil distributor business while turning around, and they knew of Brad Penn but didn't know of anyone selling it.
I did find a tiny gas station/convenience store that carried cases of their SM dino oil and did pick up a case but none of the Penn Grade 1 oil.
Funny thing is, American Refining had a few Brad Penn brochures in the tourist brochure dispensers.
They seem to be going out of their way to make it hard to obtain.
Agreed on the distribution idea.
I was interested in using their V2 motorcycle oil in our Harleys and even found a distributor in our area. Unfortunately, they didn't carry either the Brad Penn motorcycle oil or their 20W50 racing oils and weren't all that willing to order it for me. Instead, they tried to push a couple of leftover cases of Kendall (Conoco/Phillips) 20w50 motorcycle oil on me and even went so far as to print of the spec sheets for it so that I could compare them. That in itself was OK, but I really wanted to try the Brad Penn products. Too bad. They lost a sale there.