Car companies don't bother with this kind of quality and presentation any more...
thanks, Rolf
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meddleshop
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My grandparents brought a Borgward from Germany in the fifties, I haven't seen any pics of it and I haven't found one of these in their stuff unfortunately.
Semi-non sequitur, so sue me. I bought two-three good Kennedy toolboxes from an acquaintance who was losing his house subsequent to the '08 financial shitblizzard; I mean losing his house like the sheriff was coming in a couple of days to lock the doors behind him as he went down the road, freshly homeless.
So anyway, the boxes (whose contents I really hadn't examined, assuming it was likely to be cheap and/or broken dreck) had a lot of goodies in them -- Starrett gauges of various kinds, high-quality tiny German combination wrenches in sizes suitable for rebuilding Weber carburetors, some carpenter-oriented stuff -- as well as the junk I'd predicted. Among the good stuff was a lovely wrench set that evidently had once been part of a factory-supplied Mercedes owner's tool kit. Quality about as good as the best of what I already own.
I don't use them; don't really know what to do with them except let some future dumpster diver (i.e., soul brother) find them after I have croaked.
Thanks for showing the pretty Borgward doodads, Mr. G.
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My grandparents brought a Borgward from Germany in the fifties, I haven't seen any pics of it and I haven't found one of these in their stuff unfortunately.
I've only seen one, back in the mid seventies abandoned in a farm junk pile. We found it to be a oddity, without much charm. No tire gauge either!
Semi-non sequitur, so sue me. I bought two-three good Kennedy toolboxes from an acquaintance who was losing his house subsequent to the '08 financial shitblizzard; I mean losing his house like the sheriff was coming in a couple of days to lock the doors behind him as he went down the road, freshly homeless.
So anyway, the boxes (whose contents I really hadn't examined, assuming it was likely to be cheap and/or broken dreck) had a lot of goodies in them -- Starrett gauges of various kinds, high-quality tiny German combination wrenches in sizes suitable for rebuilding Weber carburetors, some carpenter-oriented stuff -- as well as the junk I'd predicted. Among the good stuff was a lovely wrench set that evidently had once been part of a factory-supplied Mercedes owner's tool kit. Quality about as good as the best of what I already own.
I don't use them; don't really know what to do with them except let some future dumpster diver (i.e., soul brother) find them after I have croaked.
Thanks for showing the pretty Borgward doodads, Mr. G.
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