It had to be someone that knew they were there. They only took certain items, and only after he died. He was not living in the house at the time.
Hate hearing about the missing Whiz cans. That is truly evil that someone would do that. Here is something to balance out the badness. A couple of years ago, I finally found my Racing Finish polish can in a small antique shop. Fast forward to last month, and I found an original sticker online to match!
The first two cans were purchased in 1961 and 62. This one was purchased at the end of 1969 and then our product brands turned into pure Carnuba Wax, so this old guy still had ¾ of a can left, but was used randomly over the years. Now, it sits in a garage drawer specific to car/boat wax products. We tried it on our long line of boats and it lasted for a month or so. The harsh environment of salt water on the surfaces and hosing off/wiping off took its toll and after finding the purest of Carnuba Wax in the product called Collinite, there is no comparison. So, again, the Classic Car Wax took a vacation in the drawer. Hello, Many of those Classic Car Wax cans were saved from the time the product came out for sale to the general public in 1961 at the Pomona Fairgrounds. It was the annual Los Angeles County Fair that has been going on since 1922. We happen to follow our older teen escapades as a right of passage at the end of each summer and beginning of each school year. The teenagers in our high school going back many years always had a Friday opening day or the first open Friday of the month of activity. The teenagers just left their houses and ended up at a neighborhood park where they “caravaned” to the Pomona Fairgrounds for an all day adventure. In the early days, it was racked up to a truant absent days. But, due to backlashes against the teens, fake notes and some real note excused the teens from school for legal reasons. Family gatherings, obligations, and notes saying they were ill on that Friday of September. It was whatever the parent would write for an excuse or if no parent wrote one, then the nice handwriting from the teen girls did the trick for an excused absence. But, the gatherings held their own over the years as a “thing to do” on that first Friday of opening day at the L.A. County Fair. When my older brother told me of the two years of not going to school on those Fridays, it was something else. He never ditched school, but here he was with his group of teenagers going to an all day event in Pomona. Hand written notes at the ready on Monday morning at the attendance office as required. Jnaki When it was our teenage high school years, we all knew of the strange non attendance day to go to the Pomona Fairground location. (for those not knowing what the Pomona Fairgrounds is, for us teens, it was the Fair in September and in 1961, the place was the home court for the official Winternationals Drag Race Event that continues to today in 2025, a different method, but happening in name only) As we toured all of the booths and food outlets, we were free to do our teenage activity all day. The girls who went with us felt a good way to express themselves from being the stand up students as proposed at our high school. So, we all walked around all day. One of the booths caught our attention as we could see a flame shoot up from a display as we approached. The booth was an unknown car wax company called Classic Car Wax Company. Back when Classic Car Wax first came out, we were at the LA County Fair in Pomona. There was this guy with a black hood on the display table for all to see. He poured lighter fluid on the hood and lit it on fire. After putting it out, he told us to touch the surface. He was trying to impress the teenager girls that were with us. No way… It was too hot. So, he cools the hood down with a cold wet towel. Then he threw his dry towel across the black hood and it slid all the way across and onto the table top. The flames shooting up impressed the girls and we were awed as well. Who would light a hood on fire, just to show how strong the wax product is/was? Well, this was one heck of a product. The surface was as deep as before the fire and he added another coat of Classic Car Wax and told us to come back in 20 minutes to check it out. When we came back, he told me to wipe it off. It came off easily and the shine was superb. I bought my first can right on the spot. The 58 black Impala paint surface never looked so good. Easy on, easy off, with the deepest shine in the whole cruising scene in Bixby Knolls. I kept all of our cars in a shiny condition using Classic Car Wax until they quit making the product in 1975. Pure Carnuba wax was the main ingredient… YRMV
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