He bought the complete stack in late October of 1971 from the Sears department store in Nanuet, NY. Sadly, the store and the stack are both long gone. There was an unfortunate incident when mom accidentally put the Buick in reverse instead of drive.
I worked for a guy in the late 70's and early 80's that had two of those wood grain top chests. They sat atop a single double wide three piece Snap On box that also had wood grain drawers. The Snap On top and middle box were the same and there was no flip top, he had put a piece of wood grain formica counter top on the top Snap On box and had the two Craftsman boxes side by side on top. It was a private shop that handled both the owners fleet vehicles and his private collection of foreign cars. I remember the the guy who had those boxes because we didn't get along all that well, but I remember him saying they were a gift from his father when he graduated college in 1969, and he added the two top boxes a year later when he got his first job at some Jaguar dealer where ever he lived at the time.
I thought the layout of the Snap On boxes was great and the two top boxes added some extra storage and even kind of matched. I've never run into either the Snap On or C-man version since.
I do have what is likely a late 40's 26" 6 drawer top chest in fair shape, and that came to me with a similar age hip roof cantilever box and a pair of 30" wide flat top boxes that look like the lower one in post 720 above.
The paint on all is decent but the chrome on the latches is pretty much gone. One of the 30" flat top boxes is a bit rough but fixable.
Anyone know a source for replacement latches?
All of them were in the stripped out fuselage of an old cargo plane I had been hired to haul about 20 years ago. It was not much more than a bare hulk, no wings, no avionics, no controls or gear, just the tunnel and hatches. We removed the junk inside so as not to have anything fall out on the road or bounce around and do damage, the owner said to dispose of all the tools and the tool boxes. They rode home with me in the cab under the bunk. The tools were mostly Proto and Gov. Issue wrenches and sockets, plus a good few older Snap On and SK tools as well mostly all from the late 40's and early 50's. If I get a chance later in the week I'll dig them out and get some pics. My intention was to restore the top chest and the cantilever box first since they'll need the least work.
