Some Vintage Meguiar's Products from my Collection (Lots of pictures)

[SR99]

Giving this thread a bump since I'm sure I'm not the only one that had not seen it before. If you like "the history of things," this is a great thread and thanks to Mike for taking the time to put it together.

I vaguely remember quite a few of the bottles shown, from the 70's-80's. The amount of product information and availability now is astounding compared to back then.

I wonder when washing your car at home became common practice? Some of the labels of earlier products seem to imply there was no such concept. Probably has to do with when running water to middle class homes was commonplace. 1930's maybe? Maybe even later.

[Mike Phillips]

I wonder when washing your car at home became common practice? Some of the labels of earlier products seem to imply there was no such concept.

Probably has to do with when running water to middle class homes was commonplace. 1930's maybe? Maybe even later.

I've seen a lot of antique magazine ads for cars and car waxes that had some type of car washing picture included and these were from the 1950's...

[wgilles]

Thanks for posting these Mike, I love looking at old product packaging. It's so cool to see how marketing was done years ago

[shoeless89]

That is crazy awesome!

[Znig22]

Someone like myself can really appreciate a collection like this. I'm only 26 and enjoy detailing with a passion, and to see the history of the products just really makes me appreciate how far products have came along before my time.

[Eldorado2k]

The only bright blue product I know of was Meguiar products, not Meguiar's products. These are the Black Sheep products, they were introduced by a Meguiar's family member and made by Meguiar's but it was a different family member than Frank Jr., Malcolm and Barry.

Here's some from my collection... the product inside the bottles with the blue racing stripe is blue, but probably not as bright as it was in the 1960's

Howdy Mike, that sure is a neat collection of vintage stuff you've got there👍🏽 I can only imagine the rest of the stuff you must have stored away somewhere.. Very cool, thanks for sharing.

I remember seeing a couple of those Blue Stripe bottles in Barry Meguiars display case, when he gave us a tour of his office, during the 10yr. MOL anniversary party



I have what I imagine is a pretty rare Mirror Glaze Paperweight.. I was told by the person I acquired it from, that it had been in his fathers collection, tucked away in the box since the 1960's



He said it was given to his father during his time in the automotive and private aircraft industry.



50+ yrs. old in mint condition. Rarely out of this box. I think it's pretty neat



I'm wondering if you've ever come across 1 of these?

[BillE]

Re: paper weight...That is just outright COOL!

Bill

[Eldorado2k]

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[Eldorado2k]

I bought this vintage decal/sticker just recently.😉

[Eldorado2k]

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