Found the original receipt . . .

[Steevo]

Today, while cleaning out my tool box and packing tools into bins to make moving the box and roll cab easier, I discovered an envelope with a lot of old Snap-On truck receipts from when I was working in a shop in the 1970's.

Here is the original reciept from when I purchased my first Snap-On tool box, a KRA-59C top box, which sat on my workbench for quite a while before I could afford the roll cab and middle box for it.

Here is the reciept:

And this is what the box looks like today (actually last fall):

The funny part is that an online inflation calculator says that something that cost $180 in 1977 would cost $650 today.

I don't think Snap-On even sells a lunch-box that is less than $1000 these days.

 

[KEH]

You take care of your stuff, Steevo. '77, huh. I just had my last child then and couldn't have afforded that. My tool box was a fold out type of the kind still listed in the Snap on catalog(not a SO, but I still have it) which I kept in the passenger side floor board of my 1969 Dodge pickup. That was the last new truck i bought until 2005.

KEH

 

[Steevo]

Yeah, I was 22, single, no debts except a 1977 Toyota pickup, and probably raking in all of $5.50/hr plus commission.
So, when were the "good" old days?

 

[2JZGTESC300]

That receipt is older than me!

 

[Coach James]

Wonder what would happen if you called the phone number on the receipt?

Coach

 

[jeep450]

8 days before I was born.

 

[Steevo]

Wonder what would happen if you called the phone number on the receipt?

Coach

I remember Dennis very well. He was about 45-50 years old when I was 22 in 1977. That would make him 80-85 years old now, if he's still around. He was a great Snap-On dealer, an excellent salesman, always had a promo you could get if you spent enough. I still have the Snap-On brass belt buckle he "gave" me for buying something like a wrench set or a screwdriver set. The Snap-On jacket hanging next to my tool box in the pic above is from Dennis. The screwdriver handles all self-destructed, but I have everything else I ever bought from him. Even found the receipt for my FAR-70B air ratchet, and the warranty card that came with it.
Damn, I'm gettin' old, too . . .

 

[2JZGTESC300]

Is that Tool Box fully filled? Curious to see how long ago it was and how many tools are in it.

 

[jeffmoss26]

Wow, very cool!!

 

[Steevo]

Is that Tool Box fully filled? Curious to see how long ago it was and how many tools are in it.

The top, middle, bottom and side-box are so over-filled that it is difficult to find anything in there. Here are a few pics of the mess before I emptied it out:

All of the tools from this set of boxes will end up in this:

And the Snap-On set will become my machinists tooling boxes, for my lathe and mill tooling and precision measuring tools (after I replace all of the drawer slides).

 

[jeep450]

Post some more pics of the other receipts.