1980`s Car Care

dschribs

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This will certainly separate the older guy`s from the younger guys.

My top three car care products in high school. Grabbed them off E Bay. Believe it or not they`re full and unopened.

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oh yeah i remember those. i was really impressed with rain dance at the time. i think they still make zip wax don`t they?
 
Here`s a couple more from my own shelves:

Early sealants from the 80"s

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And my personal favorites-"premium" car care products you couldn`t get at the local K-Mart

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Bill
 
This was the 80`s-90`s Blue Coral, advertised in infomercials by Dennis Weaver of "Gunsmoke" and "McCloud" fame. It actually had decent durability, but the looks weren`t anything to rave about. I did use the original Blue Coral in the 70`s. Even in my twenties, it was too much of a workout to do often.
The Armorall bottle was their attempt at a paint coating in the early 70`s, capitalizing on the success of their vinyl dressing. A miserable failure at best. When it rained, it looked like you had an oil film on the paint.
Dura-Shine was another infomercial product that was designed to repel Acid Rain spots, a big problem with 80`s clearcoats. It coated the surface to eliminate any beading properties.
I kept these around all these years as a reminder not to buy car waxes from infomercials!

Classic Wax, on the other hand, was a superb product. Slipstream was their top-shelf aircraft wax. A Carnuaba-based cleaner wax, it was easy to remove if you worked it sufficiently on application and lasted a long time. It was solvent-based with a fine abrasive content, so it cleaned off tar spots and bug guts with ease. If they still made it today (impossible with VOC regs), I`d still buy it.

Bill
 
Wasn`t it Raindance that came in the nice box with the blue applicator? I remember it being a high dollar item back in the day.
 
I go back further, Simonize Vista, Johnsons J-Wax, Dupont New Car Wax, Johnsons Deep Gloss Car Nu, Dupont #7 car polish and cleaner.There was a lot of different stuff out there.
 
Here`s a couple more from my own shelves:

Early sealants from the 80"s

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And my personal favorites-"premium" car care products you couldn`t get at the local K-Mart

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Bill

I still have a bottle and tin of Blue Coral AutoFom! Also have their Ultra Fine Auto Polish. One whiff, and it`s 1996 all over again....
 
I remember waxing the 86 White Buick Century with my Dad. That summer of 86 I turned 10, but few years before that I got a packet of Turtle Wax with a "Lock Em Key Car". The car had rubber tires, and the wheels, doors would lock if you used the key to lock them. That car is still in my garage (I bought my child hood home from my parents). I found it while going through some old totes over the summer...

I remember that my grandpa had the glass bottle of Turtle Wax back in the 80`s.
 
Any of you old school guys remember the infomercial for some car wax where they actually lit a fire on top of a hood of a car???

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I always enjoy these threads, even if the modernity of the "old time products" kinda dates me :o

Rain Dance wasn`t all that bad. My favorite aunt switched to it when her health precluded doing the M07/M16 combo.

I always liked the old-time cars on the Classic Products! Must`ve sworn off `em before that SlipStream came out. Still remember how their carwash smelled.

Speaking of carwash, I used *GALLONS and GALLONS* of ZipWax before I wised up.
 
Ah, there we go! Round Mirror Glaze Bottle :D That`s still how I think of that stuff.

Unfortunately, that`s the only one I have left. I`d refill `em with #2, #3, #7 and #9 from the jugs, but the plastic wasn`t durable enough for multiple refills and started to crack.
We were cleaning out the detail supply cabinet from a Buick store when we moved from our old building in 1980, and found a glass bottle of Buick-labeled #5 New Car Glaze pushed to the back. At the time it didn`t seem significant, so in the trash it went. Still kicking myself every time I look at any of the old products. When you`re in your twenties, old stuff had no appeal.

Bill
 
,, I`d refill [round bottles] with #2, #3, #7 and #9 from the jugs, but the plastic wasn`t durable enough for multiple refills and started to crack..

Yeah, they seemed to get fragile pretty fast.

Hey, that was interesting about the M05 in the Buick bottle, I didn`t know they did that.


When you`re in your twenties, old stuff had no appeal...

Yeah....sigh. I dumpstered boxes and boxes of old stuff back in the mid-80s when I thought I was all "updated" :o Though I did keep a few things from back then, still have the ProWax paste wax I was using back in the late `70s.

BudgetPlan1 said:
Rain Dance was it back then.

I wonder what people would say if somebody did a good prep on a car and RainDanced it. Heh heh, somebody`s probably guess that it had some exotic wax on it.
 
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