Show us your Vintage Automobile Paraphernalia

[Mr. Tool]

Here are a couple of Schrader tire gauges. The chrome has worn off the short one but I like the "warm" feeling of the brass. I use it all the time.





This is the 8-inch "Leaper" hood ornament from my Dad's 1962 Jaguar Mk2 sedan. It was a 2.2 liter body with a 3.4 liter engine and he was never second off the line at a stop light! My brothers and I loved the acceleration pressing us into the leather seats in the back. We owned it when we lived in Singapore in the mid-70s. I wanted him to bring it back to the States for me to drive in my senior year in HS, but it had neither safety glass nor a heater and we were moving to Indiana. I suspect he was more than relieved to use those excuses vs. tossing the keys to a powerful car to a novice driver... Anyway, Singapore had just instituted a very large annual tax on vehicles with engine displacement over 3.0 liters and therefore no one wanted to buy it. He ended up donating it to Singapore Boys Town -- but I got out there with a wrench and removed the leaper before they came to tow it away. It's been sitting on my desk for the last 44 years.



I did, finally, get the last laugh!

What an awesome and cool story!

Thanks for posting and sharing.

I know I would have done the same on taking that classic Jaguar hood ornament.

I also have one but not taken off of a Jaguar hood.

I purchased it years ago and it’s attach to a matching chrome pedestal.

 

[Mr. Tool]

$525 Canadian at a swap meet 7 years back. Needed a repaint and some resto parts. One of my favorite items. Manufactured north of the medicine line.

WOW!....what an awesome restore!

 

[Mr. Tool]

I have a michelin man compressor that I restored last year

Now that is AWESOME!!!!!!!

Can you post more pictures of it?

Maybe even a video of it actually being used?

 

[Mr. Tool]

Happen to find this on YouTube.....

 

[Old Radar]

What an awesome story!

I have that exact same leaping Jaguar as well, though my is attached to a chrome base plate.

What an awesome and cool story!

Thanks for posting and sharing.

I know I would have done the same on taking that classic Jaguar hood ornament.

I also have one but not taken off of a Jaguar hood.

I purchased it years ago and it’s attach to a matching chrome pedestal.

Sweet! I love the mirror effect of the base!

 

[Smokeshow69]

That is a nice can. Camel made several different sizes for those cold patch kits. I have a whole collection of them.

Thanks. It looks like it lead an easy life so I figured for the price I was game.

 

[GaryM909]

I got this at a garage sale yesterday. Not sure what year it is from though.

 

[Mr. Tool]

Not mine but I felt that it would make a good fit here and deserves to be in this thread than anywhere else in the forum.

I think this is just pure classic and art that is now long lost in automobiles.

 

[ArmyVW_GuyInTX]

The Allstate container with functional pump cleaned nicely.
The Willard battery charger is still a mystery.........

 

[mvcorse]

 

[mvcorse]

Pneumatic Valve Grinder




And battery tester

 

[Private Lugnutz]

All your vintage FACOM stuff is very nice, mvcorse, not just this thread but elsewhere, and a nice respite from all the usual brands.

 

[mvcorse]

All your vintage FACOM stuff is very nice, mvcorse, not just this thread but elsewhere, and a nice respite from all the usual brands.

Wow, it is really a nice experience to share some tools here! I'll keep posting and hope you all enjoy

 

[HeelSpur]

Auction box find.

DSCF4001 (2) by wvwheaties, on Flickr
DSCF4002 (2) by wvwheaties, on Flickr

and this bottle opener/shoe horn.

DSCF4003 (2) by wvwheaties, on Flickr

 

[d42jeep]

Here are some American Grease Stick Door-Ease tubes of various vintages.
-Don

 

[mvcorse]

Tools for tire change.

 

[mvcorse]

Clutch centerer

And windshield replacement kit

 

[gearhead1960]

Lugz,

Seems like anything automotive is fair game on this thread. One of my favorite Auto's is my dad's Schuco Examico 4001. He brought this back from Germany after WWII. As I am the gearhead in the family, I am now the proud owner....it's a garage queen....

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Seems like anything automotive is fair game on this thread.

The original intent was accessories that were associated with the car, explicitly kept in or on the car (water bags, clip-on sunglasses, fire extinguishers, tire gauges, map cases, etc), as examples of car culture, as I tried to open with here...

...all the other odds and ends that were part of the golden oldies age of early car culture.

So, this is not about tools, per se, but meant to celebrate all the miscellaneous accessories.

Whether it's a whistle or a tire patch kit, Brass Era or Muscle, show us more of the functional accoutrements that people used to famously keep in or on their car!

...but it expanded to car culture paraphernalia that might be kept in the garage or house, and I am fine with that. Frankly, as long as you brought it up, I would prefer fewer tools, since there is already a place for most of them in other brand or type threads. We even have a couple threads for tools that were made explicitly for trunks and gloveboxes. But I don't like to be too much of a dictatorial thread marm.

Motorman55 has posted examples of his car and motorcycle models, and your...

...dad's Schuco Examico 4001...garage queen....

....is a stellar and very welcome addition! First time for me, and coolest thing I have seen in a long time. Love the booklet.

How heavy is it? Can you actually press the clutch and shift without toppling it and disrupting its forward motion?

 

[gearhead1960]

Motorman55 has posted examples of his car and motorcycle models, and your...

....is a stellar and very welcome addition! First time for me, and coolest thing I have seen in a long time. Love the booklet.

How heavy is it? Can you actually press the clutch and shift without toppling it and disrupting its forward motion?

Good question....I haven't played with it for awhile, the garage queen she is.... so I don't remember how easy or hard it is. I guess I'll have to try it and report back

 

[Private Lugnutz]

I guess I'll have to try it and report back

Gingerly. I'd feel terrible if you broke it on my account!

 

[Old Radar]

Be sure to have someone video while you do it. I want to see how you shift into 4th gear while crawling on your knees to keep up with it.

 

[crguy]

I always liked MotoMeters and the fancy radiator caps that went with them. And, of course, everybody likes exhaust whistles.

 

[ArmyVW_GuyInTX]

I always liked MotoMeters and the fancy radiator caps that went with them. And, of course, everybody likes exhaust whistles.

What is your " All in ball out" governor from?

 

[crguy]

What is your " All in ball out" governor from?

An unknown (to me) steam engine.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Be sure to have someone video while you do it.

All kidding aside, that would be great to see if you have the means.

 

[gearhead1960]

All kidding aside, that would be great to see if you have the means.

Got a few things up coming on my docket, but I will certainly give it a go....

 

[Old Radar]

All kidding aside, that would be great to see if you have the means.

I really wasn't kidding. I'm having difficulty imagining how one person completes an operation that requires both hands while the car is moving, without doing some serious nap-of-the-earth scooching along next to it.

Edit: Well, I just re-read the directions and it says "to avoid the clockwork-motor from running down too quickly, do not declutch when changing into 3rd and 4th gears." That reduces the challenge significantly. I'm sure you can shift from 1st into 2nd within an arm's length, and then it's just a matter of moving the shift lever. Minimal, if any, scooching involved.

 

[NJ Marty]

Here is a mid 60's car starter I picked up earlier in the year, never been used.
The wires do need a cleaning, they are stinky.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Nifty addition, Marty.

 

[d42jeep]

Here is my Vixen spark plug sandblaster. It hasn’t seen much use recently.
-Don

I found and cleaned up another spark plug sandblaster at a S Lake Tahoe garage sale today.
-Don

 

[Ed in Virginia]

An old kit from the 40's-50's to inflate tractor tires from the spark plug hole:

 

[Ed in Virginia]

A specialized tool to mount tires and tubes on split rim wheels from the Model T era:

 

[Ed in Virginia]

A tire patch clamping tool to repair old tires:

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Very nice additions, Don and Ed. And Ed, I have been remiss to welcome you to GJ! I hope we get to continue to see more from your collection.

 

[four.cycle]

That little red car from France is just way too cool.

Welcome to the site, Ed. Looks like you've got some way cool gizmos too.

Weren't those "pump up the tire with the spark plug hole" thingies notorious hand burners?

 

[d42jeep]

An old kit from the 40's-50's to inflate tractor tires from the spark plug hole:

Nice! Here is mine that came in a bag.
—Don

 

[Ed in Virginia]

That little red car from France is just way too cool.

Welcome to the site, Ed. Looks like you've got some way cool gizmos too.

Weren't those "pump up the tire with the spark plug hole" thingies notorious hand burners?

Thank you. I imagine they could burn your hand but if you needed to get your tractor back in the field and your only other option to inflating that big tire was a typical hand air pump, it might make for an acceptable alternative. Ford tractor dealers sold these from the 40's into the 70's (and maybe later).

 

[Private Lugnutz]

I think there are a few others (Jock maybe?) and we had a conversation about them needing to draw fresh air. Interesting apparatus.

 

[Ed in Virginia]

This is not really a tool (at least as used) or an accessory but I've never seen another ruler like this. It is a salesman's ruler to help promote the advantages of owning a Ford car over the other brands. The whole smoother ride, more power and more comfortable ride kind of stuff, the ruler/scale would be a handy tool to help illustrate the point ("Look at how much more legroom and more car, you can get if you were to buy a Ford..."). Later than the T, not sure about the A, but definitely used in the early V-8 era. Neither the Model T nor A was sold as a roomy car. I have seen them mentioned in some of the Ford Salesman's Handbooks before, but I can't exactly remember which years. I don't think that they were give-aways, I think they were just "for dealer use" and I am certain not many survived.