Mike, wasn't the Sealer and Reseal glaze considered a LSP product at one time in its life?
It was by Frank Meguiar's Jr., the founder of Meguiar's. Here's what I've been told and this may be the first time I've ever shared this in any media...
Frank Meguiar's Jr. only believed in using products that were actually beneficial to the coating on the coating. In his opinion, wax wasn't good or necessary for auto paints because it caused refinishing problems. The idea being that if you polished OFTEN with a non-abrasive pure polish like the #7 Sealer and Reseal Glaze that you could maintain the finish without wax.
This is true.
The problem is most people are to busy to polish often, at least often enough to maintain a single stage paint and that's the context of this topic as it relates to Frank Meguiar Jr. as that was the paint used in his days.
The other issue was because Meguiar's didn't introduce a car wax until 1951, after his passing in 1950, that what was taking place was people would use Meguiar's paint cleaners and polishes to clean and polish their car's paint but then they would have to use some other company's wax to seal the paint because Meguiar's didn't offer a wax.
So to Frank Meguiar, and probably to some degree Malcolm Meguiar and the what I call, Meguiar's Purist", #7 Sealer and Reseal Glaze, (no called Show Car Glaze), was an LSP or Last Step Product. Note LSP doesn not stand for Last Step Protectant, as in a paint sealant, I should know... I coined the term.
LSP - The definition and the story behind the term
I have never seen probably 99% of all the things you posted. Those are some really cool looking collection you have there. thanks for sharing Mike!
I know people with more and better antique bottle collections but they don't interact on forums and they likely don't posses the skills to properly photograph their bottles and then,
- Crop
- Resize
- Upload
- Insert
their product photos into threads on discussion forums. I do. I don't believe having really cool antique bottles is very beneficial if they are not shared... thus I created a forum group on MOL called,
"Blast from the Past" where I shared my collection and also any pictures I was able to take of other guys collections.
Some people that have cool old bottle just don't have the time or inclination to do all the work and steps it takes to get the pictures into a thread like this to share them with you.
Since I understand that a lot of people don't know how to work with photos on forums, I have a number of "how to" articles on these topics on both MOL and here an AG. Pictures are worthless unless you learn how to get them off the memory card and into a thread in a viewable size that won't later turn into a
Red X's
Here's the articles I've written for AG, they can be found in my articles list.
Photography and Working with Pictures on the Internet
How-To capture swirls, scratches, etchings and other surface defects with your camera
How-To capture swirls, scratches, etchings and other surface defects with your camera
How-to work with pictures on discussion forums
How to upload a photo into your Autogeek Photo Gallery
How to insert an image from your photo gallery into your message
How to crop out the fluff and resize your pictures! - Using FREE online software!
You can find the ones I've written for MOL here,
Forum related how-to articles
Really cool stuff, Mike. Having a father and uncle in the repair business, I've been around dealerships and body shops for almost 50 years and never spied any Meg's products in a glass bottle.
Back when they were the norm, after they were empty most people would simply throw them away just like we throw away our plastic used up bottles. I could share a real horror story about the destruction of a lot of antique glass bottles but choose not to.
My first exposure to Meguiar's was in 1971 as a teenager. I rebuilt a totaled '67 Malibu and my uncle painted it a copper color. Since he didn't yet trust me with a rotary, I color sanded it and rubbed it all by hand-what a chore!
Was it lacquer or enamel?
I went looking for some kind of safe glaze at the local parts store to bring up the shine on the fresh paint, and found Meguiar's "Competition Finish". I think it was kinda like 3M Fill & Glaze. Great stuff on a metallic lacquer finish. I believe it was in a black bottle. Have you ever seen any?
Bill
I don't think I have that bottle but I think Mike Pennington might... there maybe a picture of it in the
Blast from the Past forum... I don't know off-hand.
Most of the work I've done on forums is always more of the serious nature, that is helping people solve appearance problems with their projects... but it's important to have a little fun too so I like to share pictures of some of the cool old bottles I have in my collection and I've had the opportunity to take of other people's collections.
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