Products You Don`t Hear Too Much About Anymore...

[Lonnie]

Do they make Wizards car-care products anymore?? I remember that was a favorite on car show circuits in the 80`s and a local body shop and car parts supply store sold their products. Never bought or used them.

Another car-care product manufacturer is The Treatment Products, LTD out of Chicago IL. I bought their products in the 80`s at the mid-July Iola Car Show in central Wisconsin. What I remember is the carnauba wax came in a brown plastic tube, like tooth paste. GOOD STUFF back then. The company still exists.

Lestoil?? That was my early 70`s de-greaser for cleaning wheel wells as a teenage kid and washing my dirty towels and rags. I had to do them by hand as my Mom absolutely refused to wash them in the washing machine, and for good reason!! Spic-n-Span was another, but both of them were hard on the hands and really chapped them.

AND speaking of detergents, another former forum-favorite was Charlie`s Soaps (the liquid) for cleaning towels and early microfibers. Some Autopians would swear by it, other said ,meh!, and used Tide. I thought Charlie`s Soaps had (or has) sodium borate in it, a mineral better know as Borax. I do know it is a plant-based, hypo-allergenic detergent today.

 

[Bill D]

Charlie’s Soap simply wouldn’t clean for me—both my MFs and my laundry— so I ditched it. It’s too bad because had it worked, it would be pretty economical.

 

[wannafbody]

Wizards is still sold by Rural King and API paint stores.

 

[Larry A]

Do they make Wizards car-care products anymore?? I remember that was a favorite on car show circuits in the 80`s and a local body shop and car parts supply store sold their products. Never bought or used them.

Another car-care product manufacturer is The Treatment Products, LTD out of Chicago IL. I bought their products in the 80`s at the mid-July Iola Car Show in central Wisconsin. What I remember is the carnauba wax came in a brown plastic tube, like tooth paste. GOOD STUFF back then. The company still exists.

Lestoil?? That was my early 70`s de-greaser for cleaning wheel wells as a teenage kid and washing my dirty towels and rags. I had to do them by hand as my Mom absolutely refused to wash them in the washing machine, and for good reason!! Spic-n-Span was another, but both of them were hard on the hands and really chapped them.

AND speaking of detergents, another former forum-favorite was Charlie`s Soaps (the liquid) for cleaning towels and early microfibers. Some Autopians would swear by it, other said ,meh!, and used Tide. I thought Charlie`s Soaps had (or has) sodium borate in it, a mineral better know as Borax. I do know it is a plant-based, hypo-allergenic detergent today.

I used the treatment in 1964when i worked for a pontiac dealer. Back then it wAS CALLEDSlax Supper X and was made in Dolton Ill. The owner died and his widow sold the formular to its present owners.It gave a super shine that no other wax was could match.

 

[Loach]

Prima

Right on, has anyone pulled Prima out recently? Looks like their site is still up and running. After the gloss testing with Amigo I had Hydro and Hydro Max out last month to play around with after cleaning out the sprayers and a good shake, they were working great!

 

[Pats300zx]

Right on, has anyone pulled Prima out recently? Looks like their site is still up and running. After the gloss testing with Amigo I had Hydro and Hydro Max out last month to play around with after cleaning out the sprayers and a good shake, they were working great!

Oh yeah...I have every single one of those in my cabinet. I need to reach for Hydro more but tend to get stuck on D156. Hydro Max is such a fantastic product but got pushed back in the cabinet with the release of all of the SI02 spray products (Hybrid Solutions/Seal and Shine etc).

 

[Accumulator]

I used the treatment in 1964when i worked for a pontiac dealer..It gave a super shine that no other wax was could match.

By the time I tried it in the late `70s it was a system with a pre-cleaner, glaze, and wax. The wax was in a plastic tube..it wasn`t bad, more user-friendly than the Mirror Glaze stuff I was using, but much less so than the CleanerWax + StraightWax combos.

 

[uzj100]

By the time I tried it in the late `70s it was a system with a pre-cleaner, glaze, and wax. The wax was in a plastic tube..it wasn`t bad, more user-friendly than the Mirror Glaze stuff I was using, but much less so than the CleanerWax + StraightWax combos.

I used SLAX in the early 70s. It was pretty big in So Cal with Porsche guys. I used it on my VW squareback LOL. Later Super X worked good for me. Great memories!

 

[uzj100]

A couple more: Granatize paste wax. Blue in color and smelled like gun powder LOL

Blitz wax. Solid product IMHO and they`re about 5 miles from me in Ventura, CA

 

[John U]

Do they make Wizards car-care products anymore?? I remember that was a favorite on car show circuits in the 80`s and a local body shop and car parts supply store sold their products. Never bought or used them.

Lestoil?? That was my early 70`s de-greaser for cleaning wheel wells as a teenage kid and washing my dirty towels and rags.

Wizards, still around, O`Reillys stocks some.
Lestoil............ ACE hardware will fix you up!

Here`s an oldie a friend gave me years ago...........

 

[Desertnate]

Blitz wax. Solid product IMHO and they`re about 5 miles from me in Ventura, CA

One Grand Blitz wax? Wow, that`s a blast from the past for me!

I love Blitz wax and it was the first "real" detailing product after leaving NuFinish behind. I loved the stuff, but it only lasted about 8 weeks and I was constantly re-waxing my cars. When applied to the silver BMW I owned at the time it would make the paint glow. Not an easy thing to do with silver paint!

 

[Bill D]

Blitz wax was my first real “premium” wax as well. I always held it in high regard.

 

[Accumulator]

Yeah, Blitz was big here when I first joined Autopia...usually as a topper for something like 3M IHG/etc. I never used it myself, having other stuff that seemed at least as good as what people were reporting.

uzj100- Huh, I don`t think I`ve ever even *heard* of SLAXor Ganitize! And, heh heh... the only Super-X I know from is related to another industry entirely

 

[Accumulator]

Has anybody here ever used the original Simonize? Like from the days of "Motorists wise, choose Simonize"?

I never did, not after what my mother said about it being so much harder to use than M16 (which was challenging enough for my younger self, who probably tended to use too much product).

 

[Bill D]

Yeah, Blitz was big here when I first joined Autopia...usually as a topper for something like 3M IHG/etc.

That was the combo I used on my car and customer cars. always looked great!

 

[Accumulator]

Bill D- That`s what everyone always said about it!

I was turned off by the caveat that Blitz would stain trim. I`d already been using M16 since forever, and that does it too, so having found stuff that didn`t (Malm`s and then Souveran) I never even considered the Blitz.

 

[Desertnate]

I used that combo too (IHG with Blitz), and yes, Blitz would stain black trim like crazy.

Using peanut butter and a toothbrush I was able to get some of it out, but there were a couple spots on my car that were never the same...

 

[wannafbody]

I just don`t care for the idea of using bread to wipe peanut butter off trim. Seems like a hard way to make a sandwich.

 

[uzj100]

One Grand Blitz wax? Wow, that`s a blast from the past for me!

I love Blitz wax and it was the first "real" detailing product after leaving NuFinish behind. I loved the stuff, but it only lasted about 8 weeks and I was constantly re-waxing my cars. When applied to the silver BMW I owned at the time it would make the paint glow. Not an easy thing to do with silver paint!

Yes, One Grand. I have a tin of it in my garage. I`ll have to drive by their shop and see if they`re still open.

 

[uzj100]

A combination from long ago that I liked on my black BMW was Meg`s #5 New Car Glaze (green liquid) topped with Granatize. Grantize is still in business, but I didn`t see their paste wax when I googled them yesterday.

Slax was a grayish liquid and I used to get it at a gas station near me. It had that standard (to me anyway) "petroleum" smell to it.

I didn`t read every post in this thread, but did anyone mention Classic Car past wax or Harley`s?