Downwindtracker 2
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Tools have stories file.
You won't ever get a photo of it. My parents gave me a '65 Simca 1000 in'69. It was to go to university with. The Simca was a cross between a Fiat 500 and a Corvair. In those days fuel pumps were on the sides of the engines, and this one was no different. It died and replacing it was crowded, the Simca was a cross head flow slant 4.The 8mm 13mm headed bolts were one flat at a time. All the tools I had were my poor Father's, a DOE Gray set he bought around the time I was born and this mallard, a 1/2" Blue Point combination. Who ever heard of Blue Point I thought, likely Japanese. So I cut it in two. It made installing the fuel pump much easier. Boy was Dad disgusted with me. He never really forgave me until I gave him a set of Craftsman DBE, after I had dropped out of university and started a trade.
My brother got Dad's hand tools. They were stolen from his place in a B&E.
Maybe someday I'll find a Blue Point 1/2" combination, I'll buy it and use it.
You won't ever get a photo of it. My parents gave me a '65 Simca 1000 in'69. It was to go to university with. The Simca was a cross between a Fiat 500 and a Corvair. In those days fuel pumps were on the sides of the engines, and this one was no different. It died and replacing it was crowded, the Simca was a cross head flow slant 4.The 8mm 13mm headed bolts were one flat at a time. All the tools I had were my poor Father's, a DOE Gray set he bought around the time I was born and this mallard, a 1/2" Blue Point combination. Who ever heard of Blue Point I thought, likely Japanese. So I cut it in two. It made installing the fuel pump much easier. Boy was Dad disgusted with me. He never really forgave me until I gave him a set of Craftsman DBE, after I had dropped out of university and started a trade.
My brother got Dad's hand tools. They were stolen from his place in a B&E.
Maybe someday I'll find a Blue Point 1/2" combination, I'll buy it and use it.