# Slick

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/slick/72499>\
**Category:** General Discussion\
**Created:** [May 18, 2012, 8:57pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/slick/72499 "2012-05-18T20:57:46Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![kmccune](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/kmccune/32/1237_2.png) [@kmccune](https://community.cartalk.com/u/kmccune)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2012, 8:57pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/slick/72499/1 "2012-05-18T20:57:46Z")

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When did motor oil start getting this good? -Kevin

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**Author:** ![the\_same\_mountainbike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@the\_same\_mountainbike](https://community.cartalk.com/u/the_same_mountainbike)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2012, 9:51pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/slick/72499/2 "2012-05-18T21:51:17Z")

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1940?

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**Author:** ![kmccune](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/kmccune/32/1237_2.png) [@kmccune](https://community.cartalk.com/u/kmccune)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2012, 1:38am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/slick/72499/3 "2012-05-19T01:38:32Z")

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I’ve read some books by Bill Fisher and it seems there was some pretty good oil coming about in the 50’s,but beings I was brought up on ND Quaker State,I’m clueless,thanks -Kevin

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**Author:** ![Caddyman](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/caddyman/32/23_2.png) [@Caddyman](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Caddyman)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2012, 5:21am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/slick/72499/4 "2012-05-19T05:21:06Z")

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Esso (today Exxon) came out with 10w-30 Uniflo in the late fifties…That oil set the standard at the time…

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**Author:** ![texases](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/texases/32/862_2.png) [@texases](https://community.cartalk.com/u/texases)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2012, 6:37am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/slick/72499/5 "2012-05-19T06:37:21Z")

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Yep, the introduction of multi-vis was a real breakthrough, I guess next one (less impact) was synthetics. The continual improvement of standards is the long-term breakthrough.