Lets see your First Toolbox

[msharley]

I got the box/set, in SAE, on left whilst a Junior in High School. Took me a month to earn the loot.

This catalog is listing Metric..

Think it was on sale for $69?

 

[vwpieces]

Mine was the Gray Craftsman as seen in posts 7, 17, 18
Still have it but not easy to dig out for pix. Has a few 80's BMX stickers on it IIRC. SE Racing being one.

 

[Coach James]

My first was a .30 caliber ammo box. It was around 1974, I think. Almost everyone in our neighborhood was active or retired military so ammo boxes, .30 and .50 cal. were frequently used as tool boxes.

Coach

 

[Bockscar]

My first box

 

[Stillgottimefor1]

It was an old ammo box, hated it…

 

[DAustin]

I started out with a .30cal. box and as I got more tools I moved up to a .50cal. box we had an Army surplus place near the house, and they were cheap. Then I bought one of those Craftsman tools deals that came with one of those grey toolboxes. That was my first real toolbox.

 

[GW Butch]

I wish I could find a pic of mine. Mac top chest, 10 or 12 drawers with a fold down cover attached to the lid. Bought it in 1978. Traded it to the SO man for a KR537/557 combo in 81. That (with several additions) lasted until 2018, when I traded for a KRL1023 with a locker and drawer section. All this was for home shop, the KR557 was a microwave cart for a while in our first Phoenix apartment.