Oldest consumables you have?

[Bren]

Looking at what I have in my garage I located these two artifacts from the deepest past -

 

 

 

 

I found this under the sink when we bought our house in 1998 - it is upholstery cleaner. I cannot say how old it is, 'cept the interior on the can is a series 1 SD1.

 

I also have this -

 

 

I bought a cav SRi mk2 from a relative in Jan 1992 - he gave me this for the trim. To be fair the reason I have it still is because to be fair, it ain't much cop.

 

What stuff do you have that looks as if Tony Robinson as dug it up?

[DVee8]

I have some red colour magic. I haven't had a red car since 1998.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

I have this tin of T-Cut which I remember my dad using to get a scuff off his new Sierra. It was probably old then considering it doesn't have a bar code and is in fluid ounces. 

 

 

I used (almost) the last of it shining the roof of my Rover 2000 but I left the last dribble in there so I can legitimacy put it back on the shelf!

 

...and these I keep because they survived by accident at the back of a cupboard for so long it would be rude of me to kill them now. They're survivors. 

 

[Bren]

I have this tin of T-Cut which I remember my dad using to get a scuff off his new Sierra. It was probably old then considering it doesn't have a bar code and is in fluid ounces. 

 

 

I used (almost) the last of it shining the roof of my Rover 2000 but I left the last dribble in there so I can legitimacy put it back on the shelf!

 

...and these I keep because they survived by accident at the back of a cupboard for so long it would be rude of me to kill them now. They're survivors. 

 

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I had shares in clearasil when I was a teenager.

[Bobthebeard]

A bottle of sherry (circa 1987) and a packet of Slim Fast of similar vintage.

Am still fat and dislike sherry.

[Asimo]

 

The grease has been in stock since the early '80s, the Audi I bought the hydraulic fluid for was sold in '93.

[dave21478]

I found this at the back of a garage at work and promptly nicked it.

 

Feck knows how it got down here.

 

 

It says "Not to be taken" on one side and "keep out of childrens reach" on the other, nothing else at all and obviously no barcode or anything.

Its still about half-full too.

[Uncle Jimmy]

Lots! Anyone have a brown 70s BL product? A white Rover P6? JRG 80's Ford? Green Fiat sir? Visit my paint emporium; hurry as stocks will eventually turn rock hard.

A dazzling array of useless poo such a 'Casenit', valve grinding paste and exhaust weld dating back to the 1950s.

[Stanky]

My grandfather bought out a bottle of rum to pour over the christmas pudding a couple of years back, the bottle prodly claimed it was a 'new blend for the 1970s'

 

I was astonished when it still contained enough alcohol to ignite.

[Christine]

Hold on to the Casenit . Valuable now .

[Uncle Jimmy]

Pics to follow later; I hold the worlds last remaining stocks of casenit, baker's fluid, Jenolite, Japlac paint and Jizer.

[cros]

Trolene grease, looks 50's or 60's but works OK. One and a half pots left. What have I won?

[Ghosty]

There's an Armor All bottle in our garage but it's full of white spirit.

IIRC there's a can of K&N filter cleaner from the early 90s too.

[Vantman]

Rear lamp BNIB ( priced at 21 shillings) that I bought for my Ford 8 in 1962 and a tin of polish I found in it.

 

[Uncle Jimmy]

A rummage through the midden produced the following-

 

Some research into 'Boss White' is required. Sounds like a member of the KKK.

[Uncle Jimmy]

May not be sensible to use the contents.

[Uncle Jimmy]

Underwater grease?

[Uncle Jimmy]

Unlimited valeting supplies...

[Uncle Jimmy]

Touch up sir?

[Uncle Jimmy]

Moar consumptives.

[Uncle Jimmy]

Something for the SVM? Where Hadrian's wall failed.

[Uncle Jimmy]

Finally some of this; apply with a scrubbing brush until hands bleed.

[beko1987]

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The grease has been in stock since the early '80s, the Audi I bought the hydraulic fluid for was sold in '93.

My stepdad has a jar of that grease! Its bloody good, although i bought him a cheap tin of new stuff a few years back cos it has a few bits in. Still fine for non critical bearing work though!

[Bren]

Boss white is used by plumbers as jointing compound.

 

Casenit? Used it for years to case harden various things, left the job where I used it, somebody at my new job told me it had been banned!

[Partridge]

You all need to see my Dad's garage. It's the world's leading collection of mouldy dried up shit with peeling labels.

[Christine]

Boss white is used by plumbers as jointing compound.

 

Casenit? Used it for years to case harden various things, left the job where I used it, somebody at my new job told me it had been banned!

 

 

Casenit tastes awful anyway. 

[willswitchengage]

I have condoms that expired in 2008

[mercrocker]

Not been out in the shed for a couple of days but I know it contains Rover Zircon blue touch up, Wolseley Navy Blue ditto, a Clarendon Grey Morris paint stick, some ancient flux. Paint long since dried up but found in my granddad's garage and hoarded by me. Mrs Rocker has some 1953 Coronation soap and there are a bunch of Price's Night Lights with pre-decimal pricing under the stairs....

[wuvvum]

Somewhere I have (or had) a tin of valve grinding paste that I found in the Vauxhall 10 when I bought it.  That had been off the road since 1968, so the paste must've been at least that old.

 

The oldest thing I know I still have in the shed is a tin of Total T fluid, which must be off of the '70s.

[fred]

I would venture in the shed but its occupied by a very possessive spider the size of a cat, who throws bicycle parts at me as soon as I open the door