Still to this day I'm looking for items for the truck. For the longest time the rear of the driver side cabinet was bare. The passenger side had the creeper mounted to it, but I was at a loss as to what to do with the other side. Since the truck started turning out to be more of a rolling museum, then a period correct tool truck, I decided to make a display of the toolbox emblems that were used through the years. When I restored the toolbox that is in the truck, I bought another to use as a parts box. I was able to use the best parts of both boxes to make one good one. I had some drawers left over so I thought to myself... Self, wouldn't that be cool to display the different emblems in a vintage toolbox drawer? I took me awhile to find NOS emblems and I was very successful with the exception of the top two. They are as rare as rare can be. I found the two and polished the plates until they were shiny without any paint. Then I taped off the black part and painted the red. Waited for it to dry, then with a block of wood with thinner dripped on it rubbed the top of the plate to expose the chrome trim. Waited weeks for it to dry completely and reversed the process with the black. I think they came out nice?
Fast forward to 2020. It is Snap-on's 100 Anniversary and I wanted to get something so that when people look at the truck they see that this company has been around for 100 years. (As a side note... I'm proud to have been part of that for almost 30 years) Unless the buy a $15K to $24K toolbox there is no way you are going to get the 100 Anniversary logo. If yours gets damaged, you have to give them the serial number of the box and return the damaged emblem. I was able, with the help of the truck, to get the powers that be to give me a couple of emblems to use one the truck. Now I need to come up with a way to display one of them since space is at a premium inside.
1955 BN2 Austin Healey 100M
1959 AN5 Austin Healey Sprite
The Original "Airport Racer"
1951 International Metro Step Van
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