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"When I worked at Cycle World magazine in the early Eighties, I inherited this nice old seven-drawer Kennedy tool chest. New tool cabinets were being installed in our workshop, and this one was outside, about to be tossed. That could not be allowed to happen, so I nabbed it from the jaws of oblivion. The box had been used by Editor/Publisher Joe Parkhurst and his happy band of scribes all through the Sixties as they competed in various motorcycle races. How can you throw away a box bearing a decal that says &amp;quot;Participant, 1963 Bonneville Speed Trials,&amp;quot; or a Castrol sticker from the 1959 Isle of Man TT?  It turned out to be the most practical toolbox I&amp;#039;ve ever had, as it&amp;#039;s just the right size to hold all the tools I need for a weekend race outing. It&amp;#039;s the main box in my workshop because it holds tools needed over and over again, while the more arcane stuff stays in the large cabinets nearby. This also makes it easy to throw in the van when heading out to do a buyer&amp;#039;s inspection on one of my typical projects, e.g., a totally shot British roadster that no one with any sense would touch with a 10-foot pole. It&amp;#039;s also a good mobile tool chest to take along on a first trip after you&amp;#039;ve done a three-year restoration on that car but still have your doubts.  This is the catchall drawer of tiny precision tools\u2014gap gauges, magnets, pokers, tweezers, knives, and scissors. If you can&amp;#039;t puncture your fingers reaching in here, it can&amp;#039;t be done. The Band-Aids\u2014not shown in this picture\u2014are on the top shelf, near my shop manuals.  Some of the most useful tools ever devised, from the drawer opposite. Two of the best are the bent piece of dirty white wire, handy for checking the oil level in transmissions and differentials, and the legendary Mac SW10 (or &amp;quot;Swine Ten,&amp;quot; as we used to call it in the shop where I worked), a hook tool that will pick up almost anything and is good for stretching springs and leaving a jagged white scar in the palm of your left hand. Note that this one has broken-off hooks. That&amp;#039;s because I refused to loan out its newer replacement to the photo studio for even a weekend. The toothbrush should probably be disinfected before anyone uses it for its intended purpose. Right now it tastes like carb cleaner.  Ah yes, the famous Uni-Syn tool, known to all British-car buffs. You hold it over the mouth of an SU carburetor while the engine is idling and it measures relative suction through each of the twin carburetors on, say, an MGB by floating the small red ball in the glass vacuum column. This helps you adjust the idle, or just determine to your own satisfaction that the E-type you just bought is not running at all on the two middle cylinders.  The best pry tool ever made is the indestructible Craftsman \u215C x 12 screwdriver, without which no engine would ever have been forced onto its mounts, nor any gearbox bell housing separated from its engine block. I have three of these things, and believe I actually used one on a screw head one time, but can&amp;#039;t remember why or when.  Huge Craftsman adjustable pliers are great for crushing oil filters when you&amp;#039;re too lazy to use the proper tool, and they also work great for removing the rusty ball from your trailer hitch. Or when you need to pry the bent fender away from your tire after you&amp;#039;ve hit the wall at Turn 4.  Three of the best ratchets in history, two Craftsman and one Snap-on, with various accessories. When I was an apprentice mechanic at Foreign Car Specialists in Madison, Wisconsin, I climbed into the visiting Snap-on truck and spent almost an entire week&amp;#039;s wages on that polished, swivel-headed \u215C-drive ratchet, which had the beauty of a dental tool but without the promise of pain. All 13 mechanics in our shop had one of these. I wore out the swivel after seven years of constant use, and the Snap-on man gave me a free replacement. As did Sears with the other two, when their teeth got worn. These are all second-generation tools.  Weapons Thor would have loved. A crude but effective dog bone (left) for every differential drain plug on earth\u2014no need to get off that creeper and reach for another tool\u2014and a hammer of the gods (above) for smiting knockoff hubs and everything else that won&amp;#039;t cooperate, when too much force is not quite enough. Often used with those huge gooseneck pliers and Craftsman screwdriver for straightening bent fenders in the pits. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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