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A 1919 REO Speedwagon with Pirsch fire equipment. Notice it has the NON SKID tire I mentioned in my previous post.

A clever tread design if you ask me.

I find older electric and pneumatic power tools of every type at the scrap yard on a regular basis. I buy them for about 50 cents per pound. More often than not they function normally.

From post #1499, I’m surprised no one has commented about the “Wagoneer fenders”. The fenders were made by my father. The material supplied by a roof panel from one of my Wagoneers.

More pedal toys and things.

This is a Graham Brothers truck among other things. I can’t recall the year (about 1925) It was at one time part of the Barney Pollard collection here in the Detroit area. Sometime in the 1980’s it was purchased by a museum in Canada, I think Alberta and transported there. It was later sold to a...

Some of the pedal toys among other things here in my fathers collection.

This is the remains of another Buick (among other things) as I recall a 1924. I traded for this Buick with a reasonably good 1967 Thunderbird which I paid $600 for. This was back in 1980. I thought at the time I was going to save it. Well, I guess it’s still here more or less.

An early Crosley

This one is not all Ford. The radiator and front axle is from a Model T, the fenders are from a Jeep Wagoneer.

I forgot to add pictures.

I found them in the second place I looked which was about 5 feet from the first. It seems I was mistaken. There is only HK stamped. I somehow dreamed up the rest in my relentless imagination. Did Henry make these as a young blacksmith in his early shop days? Did he omit the P because the chisel...

It’s not all Buick. Aside from the radiator shell, hood and cowl I can’t tell what the rest is from.

I can’t help with the vise but I can help to keep this thread going with treasures I find. I visited the scrap yard yesterday and today, came home with over 2000 pounds, mostly 2 and 3 inch square tubing. I have three buildings full from one scrap yard over the last twenty years. Scrap yards...

Fellows, I may have what might be the oldest HK Porter tool in existence. Somewhere around here is a pair of Ice tongs (I think) that were seemingly made by hand forging. On these tongs is a stamping. The stamping was apparently made with a straight chisel. The chisel was used to create three...