PRIZE #3: BEST SCORE!
If you recall from Day 1, Post #2, this category was defined like this: “It might be one item worth $1,000 that you got for $1 or a trailer load of stuff for $1,000 worth 3 times that. Doesn’t matter. Biggest score, most bang for the buck, value-wise, qualitatively, in my opinion. (I do take bribes!).” I’ll just point out that it’s still not too late for the bribes! (
I need a Williams Bantam box. A Snap-on HandiKit K-10 box. A Plomb 5200 box…. The list goes on! Just sayin’!)
Two caveats:
(1) One man's 'score' is another man's 'bore'!
(2) There were LOTS of smokin’ deals this year. From $5 for a Baldor motor (mattblast) to $50 for a Crafty 3/4 HP grinder and stand (Boofer) to $100 for a Ryobi pressure washer (EOC Jason). Way too many for me to give proper credit to for a 'Job Well Done, Boys!'
But here are just a few that rose to HONORABLE MENTION level in my opinion and my LGB:
Bobcat753’s Delta Milwaukee DP – for FREE, posted in August, Post #5731, linked
here.
It’s hard to beat FREE!
Stuart in MN’s Sears & Roebuck wall safe from the 1950’s – for FREE, also posted in August, Post #6315, linked
here.
Ditto!
WNYFlyer’s Union machinists’ chest – fully loaded with vintage machinist’s tools - for FREE, posted in February, Post #1282, linked
here, and then again with photos of all the drawers open showing all the tools, in Post #1300, linked
here.
Ditto, again!
Outlaw’s Peter Wright anvil, posted in January, Post # 710, linked
here.
I know you guys are probably getting sick of seeing me mention it, but not only was it one of the OLDEST finds this year, (and let’s face it, probably could’ve also been in the RAREST category, too), he got it for $20!! For a 44 lb anvil! This was the first big score of the year.
jvlyons99205’s c. 1926 Blackhawk tools cabinet for $56, posted in early September, Post #6207, linked
here.
Tough to say how much this is worth, but I know I would pay what the variety store originally wanted ($350!) in a Quick-Disconnect second, and I think it could be worth twice that to the right collector!
NJMarty’s Remington 12 (and Remington 31 barrel), posted in July, Post #5204, linked
here.
As Beemer put it at the time, “Heck, throw out the little green book and shut down the internets. We are done here, folks!” And rightly so!
But, while I appreciate and share that sentiment, while I love a good gun deal as much as the next guy and NJMArty’s was stupendous (the side-action, solid-breech, hammerless, takedown, side-ejection rifle is legendary with shooters and collectors and worth a few tens of thousands of pretty pennies), this is the Garage Journal, dealing mainly with automotive tools, and we had one of the biggest tool-set scores I have seen here on GJ, not only this year, but in the six years I have been here - and I just HAD to go with that...
I would say I went creative, organic, and representative. Three automotive tools, one cannibalized piece of militaria, some brazing, and the use of some punches and a leather mallet were involved. But that's all I'm saying until the unveiling!
