Another Thrift Store score...

[thrashingcows]

Saw this on the shelf and knew I had to have it...knew it was a 46-48 Chrysler Town and Country, but WHAT is it?

 

[thrashingcows]

It was empty but clearly held a fluid inside at one time. First I thought it might be an old flask, but the smell did not make me think it was alcohol, then I was showing my wife and she said she thought it might be cologne since she remembered giving an old green car to her Dad back when she was a kid.

So I started doing some digging. Found out that this was made by Avon, they made these vehicle cologne bottles from the 60's-80's and this one was listed as a 48 Chrysler Town and Country.


Found some for sale on-line and snagged a pic of the label since mine was missing....

And in my searching I found the car my wife gave her Dad...she remembered it was green and that the rear portion of the car opened to the cap.

Not particularly valuable but will make a nice piece of vintage garage art.

 

[Mike Parker]

cologne.

 

[detmatt]

I’ve got a box of those if you’re in a buying mood.

 

[Polara_500]

I have an assortment of them also, I think I have the Jag one too.

 

[440sportfury]

I had the same exact one. It was given to me in about 1978 by my neighbor as a Christmas present. She used to sell Avon and every year she would give soaps or cologne. I kept that and a couple of other cars and a locomotive containing cologne on my dresser at my parents house. I believe they are packed in a box in the crawl space. I have to take a look

 

[thrashingcows]

@440sportfury....Thanks, gives me an approx date they were manufactured.

 

[detmatt]

@440sportfury....Thanks, gives me an approx date they were manufactured.

I was receiving these as birthday gifts regularly from my Godmother(rest her amazing soul) 35 to 40 years ago.

 

[tallhair]

Avon used to sell stuff like that

 

[tallhair]

Duh I see it is Avon now

 

[440sportfury]

@440sportfury....Thanks, gives me an approx date they were manufactured.

I will take a ride in and pull them out. A couple of them were in the box I will see if there is any info on the box. I am just hoping they are still there. Hopefully I will go Sunday depending on the snowstorm.

 

[68PK21 440.6bbl]

Avon used to sell stuff like that

Sell? What? Most of all that I know about Avon (a quasi-legal pyramid scheme) is that they buy, buy, buy til their closet or garage is full then give it away (gifts) or unload it at the local flea market. Watch Showtimes On Becoming A God In Central Florida series, kind of explains it all...

 

[mr. fix it]

Mystery solved in a previous reply

Here are my two Avon cars...

 

[WissaMan]

Sell? What? Most of all that I know about Avon (a quasi-legal pyramid scheme) is that they buy, buy, buy til their closet or garage is full then give it away (gifts) or unload it at the local flea market. Watch Showtimes On Becoming A God In Central Florida series, kind of explains it all...

Reminds me of that Married With Children episode where Peggy starts selling cosmetics but it turns out she's her only customer (and I think she was using Al's money to buy the product so she can receive the commissions)

 

[68PK21 440.6bbl]

Reminds me of that Married With Children episode where Peggy starts selling cosmetics but it turns out she's her only customer (and I think she was using Al's money to buy the product so she can receive the commissions)

Yea that's the way it works, I had a friend of mine who's wife was/is into Avon with a closet full of products, yea she would go out with her social circle and sell some but to make a profit or a living I don't think so. My friend just paid the bills for her 'Passion'. The big deal is getting others to join as distributors to push you up the pyramid/ladder. Years ago when I was on unemployment I got a 'cold call' from someone pitching to me too sell insurance, this was on my 2nd cellphone (number) and well before all the auto warranty calls and quite a few years after I ditched my land line due to all the housing boom re-mortgage robo calls, but the Internet was alive and well and YouTube was on the rise for popularity so.... googlee googlee googlee. Results after sifting through the flood of YouTube pitch positives is where I came up with the "quasi-legal pyramid scheme" statement. The caller was adamant that I was the perfect candidate being a 'blue collar boomer'. I hadn't got many robo calls with this new number so I let the pitch run out with a whole bunch of yup yup yup's and the gears in my brain were spinning with the blue collar pitch in that I'll be driving all over the state visiting every trailer park chock full of double-wide's. The google results painted the true picture as they would send you out with (now I'm searching for the word) <ahem> 'Mentor' that would show you the ropes so to say. Well it comes too be that during this training period any policy that you sell gets credited to this mentor then they get a kick<back> after your on your own. First they start with all your relatives then... you get the picture.
It is a legal company with a office in a city just north of me, but... whether you get leads or are just cold calling knocking on doors it's like one rung up the ladder of a JW door knocker IMAO.

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[LocuMob]

That trailer park could have been a good mine with the right product.

Multi Level Marketing, MTM, as it's called is a great way to make money, if you've got those folks under you selling like the whores you want them to be. But then they ship you new catalogs and what not when you didn't ask for it. There goes money out of your hand/pocket. Then your crew of whores has a bad month, more money gone. Then they quit, and you're on your own.

That's what I did with Pampered Chef. Made some decent money for a few months, my cousin was getting all his co-workers at his hospital to buy. Easy for me, place a big order, and I would even pass on the free crap I got to his co-workers, it kept them buying. But then that died down and those supplies showed up and took the little money I was going to get.

Avon has more staying power, you only need so much cookware and utensils. Whereas women always need to replace their face masks and powders.

I wonder how Amway/Shacklee are doing these days?

 

[440sportfury]

I felt bad for my neighbor she lost her husband and was talked into the Avon business by one of her friends. She was always trying to sell it to everyone she ran into. Her family friends and neighbors would buy some stuff but how much can someone buy. People started to avoid her and before Avon everyone loved her. She would always give it as gifts to everyone. When she passed her children cleaned out her house her basement was like the Avon factory it was floor to ceiling with cases of the crap. Her daughter said she spent over 25 grand on this crap. Her friend would tell this woman to keep buying more and more stuff that it was going to be hard to get and a great investment. My neighbor was someone that could not say no and never wanted to dissapoint anyone. She really got screwed to bad she got into so deep that she never told anyone. Her supposed friend had many elderly friends that she was kind enough to fleece them out of there savings. It is the old saying if it sounds to good to be true it is.Avon said there was nothing they could do that she was purchasing the items through a third person her friend

 

[WissaMan]

I remember people that were in to that stuff (Amway, etc.) would boast about how they used all the products themselves because they were so great. I understand better now the real reason they used them!

 

[LocuMob]

I knew some people that made a lot of money off Amway, and still more money when it went to Shacklee. I mean A LOT of money.