When did antifreeze become common?

On the original purpose of this post as I remember it from the 50's and early 60's, it was hard keeping anti-freeze for a long time. The radiator and heater hoses didn't last like they do now

The first tractor my dad ever kept perminant anti freeze in was a 1951 Farmall H. I suspect even then the cost was still quite high. By then my dad was shipping enough milk the truck picking up our milk drove right in to the barn rather than picking up at roadside as had been the practice up until then. So the H had to be ready for snow plowing on short notice.

By the late 50s all vehicles on our farm had perminant anti freeze year around. I do remember as a teenager and even younger being warned not spill any as it was quite dear. Two items my grand father thought more valuable than gasoline were anti freeze and the rain water he collected for using in batteries.

I bought my first vehicle in 1962 and as I recall anti freeze was more expensive then than it is today. In fact if I remember correctly anti freeze never got to be a bargain until the early 70s.

More like the very late 90's up here in northern Manitoba. Antifreeze was 15 dollars a gallon here from the early 70's when I came north until about 98, when Wally-Mart came around and forced everyone else to compete. It's still over 7 bucks per.

When I was a kid, dad was in the air force, and always got used ethylene glycol from planes for us to run in our vehicles. We had a garage full of 45 (imperial) gallon drums of it, no room to park a vehicle in it!

One warm spring day as my father came home from work and was about to drive the car into the barn it stalled. In seconds flames were shooting out of the hood. Somebody got a bucket of water and doused it. Apparently it had boiled over and antifreeze was all over the engine.

When I was in college I ended up cracking the block on my '37 V8 Ford because I could afford the high-priced kind. It had a 22 quart radiator.