Products You Remember

Beemerboy

Beemerboy

Just One More Coat
I was thinking the other day about some of the products I used when I started detailing. I used TR3 Resign glaze as a one step and Dupont #7 liquid polish/compound, I don't think that they make that any more. I applied it with a toren bit of cotton towel:lmfao

Then the dreaded Armour-all for the trim, tires, and the inside:wait

Windex for the windows, with paper towels, I sure when threw alot of those.

My results where good but most all the cars that I worked on where MB, Cad's, Jags, all freinds of my Mothers. I charged 100 bucks for about 5 hours work.

What was yours?
 
at age 13 my producrs were ..carskin oxidation remover.rain dance wax.hi tone glaze. armorall ..brown tires suck.. glass cleaner with newspaper to remove..man i had the best stuff you could get ....:lmfao :lmfao
 
Was the TR3 resin glaze big around 82/83? I think I remember helping my dad with some when I was in kindergarten. :)

I still use armorall from time to time...

How about the original GC formula that you applied to one section at a time(no set up time). I loved that stuff.

Original TW, FULL SUN! :wait

TW emerald series

TW color restore(metal can mid 80's)

TW foaming spray wax, boy was that stuff awful!

Armorall tire foam(I still have some, why? who knows?)
 
When I think back to my younger days of car care I only remember washing the car a couple times a year whether it needed it or not. I didn't have anything that was newer than 15 years old and none of them were really worth saving. They were $200 beater cars for the most part and just not something I could care less about.

When I first started detailing I think I made the right decision by sticking with Meguiar's products. I used Gold Class for the most part and it worked out very well. I'll admit that I must have been doing a pretty halfassed job before I found places like Autopia to show me the finer things in life like Klasse. I like to think that I started out right to begin with and then built on that. No real big product faux pas that I can remember committing. I've never been sucked into the the Nu Finish crap or anything like that unless I was testing it for educational purposes. lol
 
i started detailing again when i was 29 ...products were ..meguires carwash megs cleaner wax .simple green for interiors . no touch for tires .. some sort of dressing for interiors ..whatever i could get at costco..also used 11 in gem buffer that put more scratches than it took out ..i had no clue on which pads would be good i bought them at sears..once again i thought i was a DETAILING GOD
 
I was born in 84, so i dont have a clue what yall are talking about.
I didnt get into detailing until recently, but when I got my Tahoe a fews ago, I went to pepboys and bought Meguiars car shampoo, clay, wax (nope, no SMR or polish for me:D) leather cleaner/conditioner, window wipes, and endurance tire gel. I also got one of those car wash brushes, that, compared to a nice MF or synthetic wash pad, felt like a brillo pad.

Once I even tried that car wash bottle that you hook up to your garden hose, and it sprays car wash all over your car. No scrubbing, you just hose it down with soap and water, then rinse. Looking back on it, it must have looked horrible.
 
I used Meguiar's carwash and some kind of "space age polymer sealant" from J.C. Whitney. This was back in the late 70's very early 80's.
 
I remember cleaning whitewalls with Brillo Pads and using Kit Wax and the original Simonize Paste wax that you put on and rub like crazy to remove and then rub some more to get a shine. I also used Rain Dance for a while and yes I even used Nu-Finish.
Products have definitely gotten more user friendly.
 
I was lucky enough to have a father that liked quality products for his older cars. We used stuff from Pro and Car Brite. I was buying a bunch of stuff even back then. I relaly like Mother's California Gold Carnauba Wax. I used Deep Crystal, Blue Coral and othe stuff. I had something called "The Treatment" that came in a big toothpaste looking tube. I even gave Astro Shield a try.

Now, my shelf is just as fulll, but the products have gotten more expensive. :D
 
I recall layering turtle wax on my Dad's 76 Celica. I put so much of that stuff on that it looked like a clear coat. It its day, Turtle wax was like today's Zymol (at least the cheap stuff). Everyone used it because it was so readily available. I can still remember the bottle. I wonder if there is a collectors market for the bottle and that little turtle mascot?

I also used Ajax to clean the tires, and the dreded Armor All to dress it.
 
When I first started washing 'n' waxing (couldn't really call that "detailing"), I used Joy dishwashing detergent, Simoniz wax, and Westley's Bleech White (on the whitewall tires and steel rims). :bigscream That was a very long time ago. :nono
 
Simoniz Paste, Simoniz Bodyguard, Blue Coral, Johnson Car Plate, Dupont #7 cleaner and polish, Dupont New Car Wax, Simonize Vista, Johnson J- Wax, Luster Seal, Turtle Wax, Hutchenson Waterproof Wax, Plastone, Autobrite ( first car polish with silicone in 1947 ), The Treatment , Slax Super X, Porcelainize, Dupont Sheild, Car Groom #26 polish and # 24 Wax, Westleys car polish, Car Skin, and many others that I cant rember.
 
Ive tried every one of these at one time or another. Iworked in a gas station and a car dealer in the late 50s and early to middle 60s , And we tried everthing
 
If want to relive the wonder years check out ebay for your original Simoniz, Dupont No. 7 and rain dance. TR3, astroshield, Kit wax and the treatment are still made.

I used just meguiars cleaner max ( maroon bottle after a blue coral wash), then moved on to the original GC liquid wax and wash. The original GC wash was a lot slicker in my opinion. Then came the Meg's DC system.

Link to ebay detailing supplies

Eric
 
I used Nu Finish Armor All and turtle wax back when it was a hard paste this was back in 89 after that I think I tried just about every thing you could purchase from these big market auto stores like pep boys.
 
TW had a wax called "Clearcoat" I think. It was really oily. More like a thinned out Vaseline. (1980?). I also used Rain Dance, Simonize car wash,it was a POWDER that dissolved when you added water to the bucket. :lmfao
 
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