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RUSTY Cuda

RUSTY Cuda

In over my head!
Finally got around to bringing home some of my bro in laws tools,cancer got him a few years ago, hope he's sittin back up there sucking down a cold brew.
Anyway over the last year or so I've been cleaning up his garage & sorting stuff out, after making up 3 pretty complete sets of hand tools for his 2 sons & one for the house I bought the leftovers & all the car related stuff.
still got an old commercial air compressor to get out of there, hoping the 340 bros will take that.
So thursday greg(340) trecked out to me, only to hop in my van & drive another 60 or so miles to help me load up the stuff.
We pretty much shot the day getting it home & sorting out, adding my stuff & getting the box set up. still have much weeding out to do(maybe 4 odd pieces of wrench sets in there but at least put away for now.
Don't think I'll be needing to borrow too much stuff when doing the 74!:DTOOLS! 010.JPGTOOLS! 008.JPGTOOLS! 005.JPGTOOLS! 013.JPGTOOLS! 015.JPGTOOLS! 004.JPGTOOLS! 007.JPGTOOLS! 006.JPGTOOLS! 009.JPGTOOLS! 011.JPG
I'll start off with a set that we are not sure exactly what there for?
 
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he had some older chiltons manuels, greg got the 69 70 & 71, He had previously given me the 74, there's still a bunch there, going up into the 80's some are pretty well used!
greg also took one of the old truck books, I got these 2. hoping they will be of interest to someone out there, these are in remarkable good shape for 1940's books!TOOLS! 020.JPG
 
Nice!
A good set of tools is an awesome thing to have.

Like Dippy said, they look like bearing/race removal tools to me. Use em with a press.
 
yeah definatly press tools UNLESS theres a matching die inside of them then there hole punches

1940's books would be fun to add to the collection

looks like one hell of a good haul!!!!
 
Mainly a carb rebuilder, but the 4 brothers always did there own car stuff at home, he bought out his boss & ran the rebuild/parts store for a few years,did repairs out back, but the recession in the early 90's got him & they closed up shop.
Too bad too, if ebay was around or more popular back then , he had shelves & shelves of cores in the basement from day one like model T shit to when carbs started going away, ended up scrapping it all! it was a double storefront(if that means anything to anyone cept a new yorker?) but it was tons of carbs, starters, generators & alternators!
His boss had been there for many years.
His twin brother had passed 2 years before,I'm sure I have some of his tools in there too, the brothers had split that stuff up when he passed, he was actually working with me till they took over the store, they died at 50 & 52, pretty much my only real car guys in the family, a big loss to the family, A few new tears were shed in going over this stuff with my sister in law, hopefully this helps us all out, had to force her to take 700 for the stuff,she just wanted me to take it, was hard comming up with a number when it's stuff you like but really don't need, I may ebay some of it to recoup some bucks, the boys got two really packed boxes, with a common set of the one of's(like the 1/2 drive set only one complete of those) are in the garage to share, house set was a ton of pliers screwdrivers a basic 3/8 drive scoket set & all the pipe wrenches & stuff you'd use in the house,router,sawsall circular saw & a gazillion old tools from there farther still hang on the wall in the garage, it will probably take me quite a few visits to get the rest in order.
 
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That's a pretty nice thing you're doing Rusty, sorting these out for his family.
Great way to keep someone's memory alive is by using the tools they used to use.
 
restoman said:
.....Great way to keep someone's memory alive is by using the tools they used to use.
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One of my most coveted tool set came from my Grandfather, it's a very old 3/4" Drive Craftsman socket set...from 1" to almost 3"...I think of him every time I use it.
 
My first set came from my Dad,a lot of what I just mixed into the stuff I bought came from him, last year or so we made up a real basic set for my son, I took some more home, he really can't do much anymore & has been clening house, I've got his extensive set of HO trains in my attic, don't know what I'm gonna do with the rest of his stuff when he goes, maybe a set for my second son if he ever gets a house. Some of it I may hafta just sell with the house, I gotta hit the lottery, so I can retire & get all my business stuff outta the garage, then I'll have a little space!
 
carfull keeping that HO stuff anywhere it may get over 100degs (attic in the summer) or in the moisture (basement/garage)as it can be damaged beyond repair
 
Gotta take my chances, gotta be 20 boxes of engines & cars up there, I didn't even take the tracks & scenery stuff,he gave that to his train club I just have no where else to put it, I'm starting to feel like a hoarder(even though most of the stuff is not mine, all a our closets are packed, every dead corner is a storage area!
Attic is well ventilated with an exhaust fan on a thermostat, did that last a/c redo bout 10 years ago.
Lottery might help that too , I'd like same size house but a 4 or 5 car garage out back, I'd heat & a/c that baby too! :helpme: Rich.
 
RUSTY Cuda said:
Lottery might help that too , I'd like same size house but a 4 or 5 car garage out back, I'd heat & a/c that baby too! :helpme: Rich.
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Me too!!!
I've always said if I ever strike it rich, I'm gonna demo this house, have a new one built just slightly larger (but much more efficient) in the same design, buy the city property behind me and put up a 4 or 5 car garage (with a hoist)!
Nice to dream...
 
I have my grandfather's hammer, given to me when my Dad passed away. The thing is indestructible, probably bought new in the nineteen-teens. I never knew Grandpa, but it's still a nice connection.

Dad wasn't much of tool guy, and cedrtainly wasn't a car guy, but I have both of his watches, one of which he won in a poker game his last night in the Marine Corps in 1957. That one is a 1955 Bulova self-winder he wore every day until around '89. He bought a Seiko at that point, which he wore until he died in '01. I was wearing that one daily until the band recently broke (a piece of it fell out). I'm going to have it repaired and restored and continue to wear it.

Kevin's house is a friggin' dream--I envy his setup. It's a nice three-bedroom ranch, formal dining, etc. on a hill, elevated from the street. The attached two-car garage had been converted to a family room, but Kevin's converting it back. Further up the hill at the back of the lot is a four-plus car garage. Four individual doors, then about 6' to a walk-through, and probably four more feet to the end. It's around 28' deep, and the ceiling is high enough he can fully lift his '99 Ram Quad Cab on his hoist. Not only is there a hoist but heat (rarely used in GA), AC, 7HP 80-gallon compressor, big-ass Miller 230V welder, and lots of 8' flourescent lights. The garage was there when he bought the place, but he did the renovation of it in '06-'07, so all this stuff is 5 years old or newer. Color me green. :)
 
Shot a couple of angles on those tools in question, from the thickness of the grease I cleaned off I'm thinking (opps bad idea) suspension or wheel (axel) stuff.
a lot of em had #'s starting in CJ .
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I don't have anything of my Dad's. He's still using it all, hopefully for a good long time.
I do have his Father's drafting/drawing set, bought new for him Christmas of 1964. He died New Year's Day 1965 and only used it once. Being both a Civil and Mechanical Engineer, it's a quality set of instruments. I only use it if I'm looking for extreme accuracy in a project, even then, it's overkill for me. I was only 9 months old when he died, but it's a connection.
 
I have all of my dads' tools, (lots of big stuff-he was a diesel mechanic) and every time I use one I think of him, even have his pic hanging in the to of my main box. Ya just gotta...
 
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