I've been up to my eyeballs in . Mostly trying to get ideas on how to add some organization to the nightmare that is my garage. I've also been oddly fascinated with all of the threads concerning old tools and old toolboxes. So, last few weeks I have been doing some half ass browsing of CL ads for tools. Today I picked up this box with a few tools in it.





And it turns out to be a circa 1962 Huot Model 110 (I don't really know that much about tools. Google is my best friend.)



Of the few tools that were in it, nothing was what I would call spectacular. However I did find a few 1930-40's "Auto-Kit" wrenches, a pair of "Bluebird" battery terminal pliers, and a few other odds and ends.







So now I'm apparently what I despise most: a hipster. I don't really care. I got some cool old tools. A box I am going to repaint and keep in the Bronco. And a new hobby that doesn't get me in too much trouble for dragging home rusty old steel.

Those are cool! I ought to do some searching, just got a bunch of really old tool boxes from my father in law. Garagejournal.com is awesome.

So this is kinda along the same lines. I "inherited" it, 20 years ago, from my grandmother's friend who was downsizing and moving south, from Youngstown Ohio. Its stashed in my garage attic, and the lighting wasn't set up for photos, so sorry about the pics. I should probably try to sell the old parts & use the cabinet for storage. Now that I'm seriously working on making my garage a better work space I'll probably do that.
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Sweet cabinet! I'm sure you could do pretty well on selling off all those parts. The HAMBers would eat that stuff up. And if they don't, those two idiots on American Pickers would.

I've thought about the Pickers guys. I know they'd love the cabinet. I could never sell the cabinet, only because it was given to me by a family friend who knew I was into cars. We weren't close, but as a teenager I expressed my interest in his old tools & stuff. Years later, he thought enough of me to give me the cabinet, that is pretty cool.

A few of Delco boxes have never been opened, they have a "string" to pull around the top of the tin, that breaks the box open, kinda like a tamperproof seal. When I was working for the GM dealer, I showed the parts guys a couple of the old parts and they ran the part numbers and they still crossreferenced.