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Date:         Sun, 12 Aug 2001 10:43:49 -0700
Reply-To:     T Berk <tberk@MINDSPRING.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         T Berk <tberk@MINDSPRING.COM>
Subject:      Re: Canadian Tire Sale on Marvel Mystery Oil
Comments: To: "Pedersen, Michael" <MRPEDERS@PACIFICA-PAPERS.COM>
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"Pedersen, Michael" wrote: > > Hans Brouwer wrote: > > "Canadian Tire has marvel mystery oil on sale at 40% off." > > When I was a kid, I would mow this old guys yard, and he would have me add > Marvels to the lawnmower fuel!!! It came in a cool red, black, and white 1 > quart can. On the can it recommended that you put it in just about > everything...he did. When I stopped into Canadian Tire a few weeks back to > buy some (I didn't), all I could find was a little (half pint, maybe) > plastic bottle of Marvels Mystery Oil Gas Additive, looked like a STP > bottle. It wasn't called top cylinder lube as I remember it. It had one of > those annoying foil seals on it, so I couldn't see it (isn't it red?) or > smell it (probably would scare the sales people anyhow..."huffer in aisle > 4") Is this the same stuff? I'm suspicious 'cause I've found with other > products even though the labels may be the same, it's different stuff, made > by a different company. A1 steak sauce is a glaring example. Same label, > two different companies, two different tastes...

They still make the stuff i the tin can with all the same claims on the side.

They stuff you saw was prob a different formula meant for cleaning injectors.

Everybody and their brother has a FI cleaner on the market so they are rebranding some.

Go by a Walmart or something, you'll still see old school MM on the shelf.

TBerk


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