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Meguiar’s began with furniture polish mixed one bottle at a time
For more than a century, four generations of one family turned a homemade polish into a car-show fixture, until 3M bought the business in 2008.
Chemical Guys was a nickname before it was a company
A Los Angeles car care brand took its name from a stand at shows, and its product descriptions read like a primer on what dirt does to a car.
How a Detroit mechanic’s fight with road salt became Ziebart
Kurt Ziebart’s rust coating was dismissed by Detroit, grew into a worldwide franchise, then had to find new work once rustproofing stopped carrying the business.