Must sell, 3 rollaways full of tools..

[ZRX61]

Not mine, they belonged to the late father of a friend. 2 of the rollaways are SnapOn, the other is Matco or Mac. Look to be around 1970's vintage.
Right now they are buried in her garage & from what I've managed to see there is a lot of extraneous crap in the drawers that needs to be thrown out.
There doesn't appear to be ANY resemblance to order in there either. Looks like everything was just thrown in there & hauled out.
There's probably two days of work just sorting it all out. I will post pics of boxes & tools when I manage to get to grips with the boxes....
Stay tuned.

This is the only pic so far:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v317/ZRX61/303-CJ002.jpg

Location is Northern Los Angeles County.

[walrus]

Like to have that top box

[Uncle Buck]

Like to have that top box

You and the rest of us Bozo's too! :lol_hitti

[krusty the clown]

probably should post that in the classified's thats where the buyers will look.

[Lookin4'67Galaxieconv]

Location would be helpful. :)

EDIT: Sorry, didn't see the bottom

[walrus]

You and the rest of us Bozo's too! :lol_hitti

I think its the right size to fit on my roller

[Ray-CA]

How much for all three? Sight unseen?

Ray

[Chris Adams]

Hi, north of Littlerock/Palmdale/Lancaster? Or in that area.
I might be interested in taking a look when possible. Could make a total offer then part it out, or just buy something interesting.

[r6_cannibal]

I'm in San Diego, I think the odds and ends would be worth a drive up. I bet there are quite a few doubles in those boxes. That's too bad about your friend's dad.

Guessing from the signs to the left of the box looks like her dad was a Republican =P

[Danglerb]

How much work are you willing to do?

Without question top dollar will come from inventorying everything, taking nice pictures and posting all the individual items on ebay. The more you group things together, the less money you get.

[mkdive]

When your ready to sell drop me a pm. I'm in Newport

[Tool Pants]

The vultures are circling. I like the Snap-On.

[back2class]

I had the exact same box. Sold it three years ago on ebay for $600

[voidifused]

:needpics:

Hurry with the cleaning and the photo's give something for the vultures to feed on! :willy_nil

[RickP330]

The vultures are circling. I like the Snap-On.

:lol_hitti Is that what I am??? :pimpflash

[voidifused]

I think when the words "For sale" and "snap on" come together on this forum a lot of people fine there "inner vulture" :lol_hitti

[Chris Adams]

Lovely.
When my father in law passed away some years back he left a 30x40 machine shop full of things like lathes, band saws drill press, milling machine everything you could accumulate in 60 years of inventing and fabricating.

The relatives all started accusing everyone of being vultures if they asked about it, or even looked at the stuff.

So no one would mention it. It became the elephant in the room.
Then when my mother-in-law, in desperation, asked if I would find someone to buy the stuff, I showed it to a couple friends who might want it. Family members showed up to curse out the ‘vultures’. So neither would buy anything, both left.

Three months later she had a local scrapper haul it to the recycler, she paid HIM 200 bucks to remove the stuff. He threw it in the truck and hauled it to the recycling center where it was trashed.

So would you prefer that someone dump the stuff at the swap meet? Or sell it in a garage sale? Neighbor lady just sold her late husband’s sockets, mostly Snap-On, some Craftsman, 150 sockets, 20 bucks at her garage sale.
When I asked her why she didn’t offer them to me, she told me that since NO ONE had ever offered to buy them, she assumed they weren’t worth anything.

[ZRX61]

ok, here's her plan:
She wants it all inventoried & sorted.. & then pics will be taken & I'll post em in the classifieds..
There are some very old snap on ratchets in the piles

[john w]

Should be interesting.

[VDubJoe]

Nice boxs. I bought my first set like that when i was 16. Still works great.

Joe

[orangeastre]

ok, here's her plan:
She wants it all inventoried & sorted.. & then pics will be taken & I'll post em in the classifieds..
There are some very old snap on ratchets in the piles

patiently waiting.......

[ZRX61]

patiently waiting.......

I've been over there 3 times so far & that was just cataloging all the guns..