Sunday, July 12, 2026

Saturday, July 11, 2026

Qualikraft wrench

  Quali-kraft was a Japanese made tool brand made for the North American department store trade, the wrench looks and feels like a quality item.  I'm not sure about the odd-shaped jaw cutouts, it looks like they are trying to contact the flats of the nut instead of the corners, and also a feature to "ratchet" the wrench on the nut. And it's "patent pending".



 

Past Concept Cars of the Future! 1954 Pontiac Bonneville Special




A Corvette by any other name... It was not put into production...
 

Friday, July 10, 2026

Scintillators and Geiger counters


 Buy now! (1955) Atomics are the future!

Hesketh wrench


 These wouldn't turn up very often! Unless it was a part of the toolkit of the low mileage Hesketh you bought... Thanks, Derek!

McEvoy Vtwins 1928


 Those long strokes are expensive!

Wednesday, July 8, 2026

One of my vices is vises, a broken one

Seen on Marketplace. Rather disappointing for something that doesn't look very old or misused... I expect this is shoddy material rather than misuse?


 

NR750 cutaway


 The oval piston street bike. Surely, one of the most exotic production vehicles of all time. Honda made 300 and I bet very few were ever ridden more than a few miles. Said to be the inspiration for the styling of the Ducati 916.