Hey folks. While at the meet in SB, every night a few other SDCers and I sat around in the parking lot til the wee hours of the morning, as that's how it is at most SDC meets.
A gentleman from South Africa joined us a couple of those nights, and told us of a product called Tectol that you apply all over your car (under-carriage, body seams, any place where rust might form) and it keeps it from rusting. You apply it on with all the trim removed after you paint the car. You supposedly mix it with tranny fluid, and that thins it down, and also allows the Tectol to seep into places where you can't get it into.
Has anyone else ever heard of this? The way he was talking about it, it really seemed like it was the way to go and would work well.
P.S. If you've never sat around all night in the parking lot with other Stude guys at a show, you're missing out! Sometimes you learn of things like Tectol, sometimes you're changing the valve covers on a R2 Lark under a street light, and other times people will pull up with a never-machined Studebaker V8 block that they found at the Foundry...
Matthew Burnette
'59 Scotsman
'63 Daytona
Hazlehurst, GA
A gentleman from South Africa joined us a couple of those nights, and told us of a product called Tectol that you apply all over your car (under-carriage, body seams, any place where rust might form) and it keeps it from rusting. You apply it on with all the trim removed after you paint the car. You supposedly mix it with tranny fluid, and that thins it down, and also allows the Tectol to seep into places where you can't get it into.
Has anyone else ever heard of this? The way he was talking about it, it really seemed like it was the way to go and would work well.
P.S. If you've never sat around all night in the parking lot with other Stude guys at a show, you're missing out! Sometimes you learn of things like Tectol, sometimes you're changing the valve covers on a R2 Lark under a street light, and other times people will pull up with a never-machined Studebaker V8 block that they found at the Foundry...
Matthew Burnette
'59 Scotsman
'63 Daytona
Hazlehurst, GA
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