Ford branded tools
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I saw a set of Ford screwdrivers somewhere. I think they were made in Taiwan and probably just labeled for Ford. Can't remember if I saw them online or in a store.
TuxThePenguin
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Wonder if they supply Ford dealerships or what. Because if you're not working at a Ford dealership, why would you be looking for Ford-branded tools? Is there a business in that? Clearly there must be. I'm surprised though.
CGarage
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Motorcraft has tools and even workshop carts.
mike93lx
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It's just marketing.
BiggityBen
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my grandfather left my father a whole bunch of Ford wrenches. if i remember correctly they also aren't sized in sae or mm.
steel 35
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If you drive one, you need a lot of specialty items 
Several of the large store (think Walmart) here in Germany sell Hyundai branded tools and even tool boxes. It makes no sense to me from a marketing standpoint with so many great German brands and car companies. I've seen relatively few Hyundai's on the road, and the brand doesn't scream quality to the local population. They are overpriced, and just the mass produced standard tools marketed under seemingly hundreds of brands. I just think they would sell move even under Opel, Skoda, or other mid-priced European brands. That being said, based on the stores selling them, they are likely targeting the basic homeowner, DIYer I guess.
I couldn't see a mechanic or even a Hyundai dealership using the tools professionally.
I couldn't see a mechanic or even a Hyundai dealership using the tools professionally.
upper_tanker
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While helping my Grandpa clean out his garage, I found a pipe-wrench looking thing that had the Ford logo on it. He said he accidentally walked out with it when he worked for Ford back in the late 70's. It's pretty neat
I had a grandfather that restored a 1914 Ford Model T, and a 1918 Essex to showroom quality. They even went on a European tour with one of them, and maybe China too. He also had & restored one of the only two remaining 1928 Viking Roadsters. The only other one was on display at Harrah's in Reno. Plus he restored several other antique cars to show quality.
Anyways, his garage shop was full of Ford & Oldsmobile specialty tools, as I remember. Only saw his garage shop a couple times, as he and my Mom were estranged throughout most of my childhood, thence thereafter he & I were never close, even though he lived only 10 miles away on the other side of the city.
But I remember him showing me how he had to fabricate many sheet metal and even forged parts for the vehicles and their engines, as well as replacing/rebuilding their wood framed convertible tops!
Anyhow, didn't mean to ramble-on so much; this thread just reminded me of all kinds of special Ford & Oldsmobile & other old-timey tool brands that I noticed throughout his garage on those two nighttime visits he took me on therein.
But to ramble-on a bit more, I think he started-out as a general laborer at a wire & cable manuf. company called 'Wire Rope Mfg. & Equipment Co.' of Seattle, which made giant cable systems for skyline tramways, and railway street cables, and logging co's &c.
Then at some point was hired as an apprentice mechanic at the Seattle Oldsmobile dealership, working his way up to journeyman mechanic, and later-on built & owned the first two Oldsmobile dealerships in Alaska. And made millions by having one of the prime sales distribution lines, of myriad general goods & pharmaceuticals, including running bootlegged liquor to Alaska during the prohibition, &c.
And in case anyone's wondering....no, not a single tool or anything else was inherited by my side of the family.
And moreover, I don't remember why or how he and my Mom had their falling out. But no one is left to ask.
Moral of the story . . . Try to do recorded oral histories with your elderly family members, before it's too late, and they're gone. Don't put it off, thinking you have plenty of time.
Anyways, his garage shop was full of Ford & Oldsmobile specialty tools, as I remember. Only saw his garage shop a couple times, as he and my Mom were estranged throughout most of my childhood, thence thereafter he & I were never close, even though he lived only 10 miles away on the other side of the city.
But I remember him showing me how he had to fabricate many sheet metal and even forged parts for the vehicles and their engines, as well as replacing/rebuilding their wood framed convertible tops!
Anyhow, didn't mean to ramble-on so much; this thread just reminded me of all kinds of special Ford & Oldsmobile & other old-timey tool brands that I noticed throughout his garage on those two nighttime visits he took me on therein.
But to ramble-on a bit more, I think he started-out as a general laborer at a wire & cable manuf. company called 'Wire Rope Mfg. & Equipment Co.' of Seattle, which made giant cable systems for skyline tramways, and railway street cables, and logging co's &c.
Then at some point was hired as an apprentice mechanic at the Seattle Oldsmobile dealership, working his way up to journeyman mechanic, and later-on built & owned the first two Oldsmobile dealerships in Alaska. And made millions by having one of the prime sales distribution lines, of myriad general goods & pharmaceuticals, including running bootlegged liquor to Alaska during the prohibition, &c.
And in case anyone's wondering....no, not a single tool or anything else was inherited by my side of the family.
And moreover, I don't remember why or how he and my Mom had their falling out. But no one is left to ask.
Moral of the story . . . Try to do recorded oral histories with your elderly family members, before it's too late, and they're gone. Don't put it off, thinking you have plenty of time.
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Super Sport
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I've seen modern Ford-branded tools on Amazon. They look like cheap, licensed products made by a cheap tool importer - targeted at Ford fans who don't know anything about tools (well except maybe themselves, since they are buying Ford-branded tools after all).
Buying something just because it has a recognizable brand name on it, it’s just crazy.
That said, I’m going to put on my caterpillar work gloves my John Deere hat my Winchester work boots and fire up my troy Bilt string trimmer for some yard trimming.
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That said, I’m going to put on my caterpillar work gloves my John Deere hat my Winchester work boots and fire up my troy Bilt string trimmer for some yard trimming.
Sent from my iPhone using The Garage Journal mobile app
Ilikeike
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I have a couple of wenches that have ford on them, they look like from the 1920-30s
jgromada
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i have some old Mr Goodwrench sockets from many years ago. Similar concept
DetroitDIESEL444
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I broke down in front of summit racing with no tools. I needed a 7/16 wrench to tighten a charge air clamp. I ended up having to buy the cheapest Ford Brand wrench set to fix my truck. It was taiwan made and did the job. They live in my mobile tool set now.