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Mike Phillips
09-10-2020, 12:30 PM
Blue Coral AUTOFOM with Fomblin A- Dennis Weaver
Here's a miracle product from the early 1990's that I have in my collection but it's time to thin-out. The plastic bottle has cracked so before recycling it I took a few pictures to preserve this part of Car Wax History.
http://www.autogeekonline.net/gallery/data/722/Fomblin_A_001.JPG
http://www.autogeekonline.net/gallery/data/722/Fomblin_A_002.JPG
http://www.autogeekonline.net/gallery/data/722/Fomblin_A_003.JPG
http://www.autogeekonline.net/gallery/data/722/Fomblin_A_004.JPG
http://www.autogeekonline.net/gallery/data/722/Fomblin_A_005.JPG
http://www.autogeekonline.net/gallery/data/722/Fomblin_A_006.JPG
http://www.autogeekonline.net/gallery/data/722/Fomblin_A_007.JPG
Enjoy....
Im the MAN Im the MAN Im the MAN Im the MAN Im the MAN
PA DETAILER
09-10-2020, 12:34 PM
Yes sir. That was all the rage back then.
Mike Phillips
09-10-2020, 12:39 PM
TV Commercials with Dennis Weaver
I remember when this product was being advertised on TV with a TV actor by the name of Dennis Weaver. He was known for his roles in,
Chester on Gunsmoke
Sam McCloud on the McCloud TV series
He also stared on a TV show called Gentle Ben, which was about a huge Bear.
I couldn't find any of the U.S. English TV Commercials but here's one in a foreign language, German I believe?
Dennis Weaver appears at about the :20 second time stamp.
https://youtu.be/AbhAqHzRdTU
Dennis Weaver for AUTOFOM with FOMBLIN A
http://www.autogeekonline.net/gallery/data/722/dennisweaver.jpg
:)
TTQ B4U
09-10-2020, 01:46 PM
I grew up using this stuff. Loved / Hated it. Worked great but wasn't always the easiest to remove. I grew up in a GM Family with dealerships in Cleveland so the whole home-town thing was big for us.
57Rambler
09-10-2020, 08:16 PM
I spoke about using this stuff a while back in another thread.
Some of the TV ads claimed it contained the same ingredient used to protect the Space Shuttle re-entry heat tiles. Ads were often on during Friday night "Chiller Theater".
Definitely agree it worked great, and yep it was a bear to remove until I learned the secret trick to lightly mist the panels with water to aid in its removal.
Billy Baldone
09-10-2020, 08:25 PM
Mike!!! I love this!! You forgot his greatest role ever..... David Mann in Steven Spielberg's Duel!!!!! I have the movie poster in my home shop!!!! If you are giving old products away, i would love them for my wall. I will pay for the shipping
Mike Phillips
09-11-2020, 08:11 AM
Mike!!! I love this!! You forgot his greatest role ever..... David Mann in Steven Spielberg's Duel!!!!!
I have the movie poster in my home shop!!!!
Yeah buddy! I watched that movie and it was actually pretty good, especially for its time.
Here's a YouTube video from the moving with the Truck Driver messing with Dennis Weaver
https://youtu.be/5MtAMc4i8OA
Movie Poster
https://www.autogeekonline.net/gallery/data/722/medium/DuelMoviePoster.jpg
If you are giving old products away, i would love them for my wall. I will pay for the shipping
PM me your shipping address.
:)
Mike Phillips
09-11-2020, 08:14 AM
Cool website with info about the DUEL truck
The Duel Truck - 10 Years Later (https://www.tenfourmagazine.com/2014/09/special-features/the-duel-truck-10-years-later/)
https://www.tenfourmagazine.com/content/wp-content/gallery/duel2014/duel01.jpg
:)
Billy Baldone
09-11-2020, 09:42 AM
My inner GEEK is off the charts right now!!!!! Thanks for the link!!!
Mike Phillips
09-14-2020, 04:14 PM
Some of the TV ads claimed it contained the same ingredient used to protect the Space Shuttle re-entry heat tiles.
One of my best and oldest friends told me his dad invented those tiles. He worked for Bureau of Mines (https://democratherald.com/fifty/50-objects-of-albany-for-old-timers-its-still-the-bureau-of-mines/article_063b58cc-1869-11e4-9fd6-0019bb2963f4.html) if I remember correctly in my home town of Albany, Oregon. He had a number of inventions that were patented for the Government.
I drove by this place all the time, it was one street over from the High School I attended and just down the road from my parents house.
Bureau of Mines - Albany, Oregon
https://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/democratherald.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/2/42/242b3f5a-1869-11e4-9834-0019bb2963f4/53d9c346e7805.image.jpg?resize=620%2C357
Ads were often on during Friday night "Chiller Theater".
I don't remember Chiller Theater but I do remember Terror Theater and of course Monster Vision with Joe Bob Briggs on AMC
https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/58f963cfcd0f686256f0df14/1575922424110-JRADXYPK4UXNMG04D2QT/monstervision.png?content-type=image%2Fpng
:)
57Rambler
09-14-2020, 04:36 PM
I don't remember Chiller Theater but I do remember Terror Theater and of course Monster Vision with Joe Bob Briggs on AMC
Chiller Theater/re aka Shock Theater was a syndicated TV package put together in the late 50's by Universal Pictures (via Screen Gems) featuring their classic "Universal Monsters". It was part of their response to the new medium of TV which was drawing people away from the theaters. It almost always aired on late Friday nights and usually had a costumed monster host. Vampira (not Elvira) was an early host.
My favorite movie in the package is The Black Cat which pitted Lugosi vs. Karloff.
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