Featured Interesting NYC collector and his collection

Re: subject matter. My grandfather had the tools and equipment to fix furniture, appliances, gizmos, thingamajigs. He collected every size nail there was, all sorted neatly in their own drawers with compartments. If i were to list everything in that cellar I'd be here til New Year's, 2019!

He had a passion for acquiring all sizes of each item. For instance: C-clamps - the littlest was less than an inch, the biggest was well over a foot. They hung like a frieze over his long work bench, advancing in size by the half inch.

Everyone in the neighborhood knew that if they needed a certain kind of tool, Doc would have it. Always. Several of them.

I still have an untippable footstool he made me. And someone in the family has the huge, mahogany Governor Winthrop desk that he found in somebody's barn in a few hundred pieces. It has troodles of compartments, drawers, slots, etc., all of which he maneuvered back into place one way or another, and it was a wedding gift to my parents.

That's the kind of thing he did in his 'spare' time.

 

My kind of bud! Yay for him!
Though my screen name was given me about 1985 for such reason, I miss my old property where I had anything I, or anyone else, could need. A store trip for something was a rarity.
Some of it is in storage though, especially tools.
I will share my latest tool find later...maybe.

 

Thanks for not flipping out on my comment which I dreaded for 'dissing' those.
>A GF's Mom came home with a Jag and parked it behind my 4 speed, Posi, 1969 Nova SS 13sec 1/4 mile, daily driver. I miss this car SO much.
>I opened the Jag hood and saw something which told me all I needed to know.
Protruding through the valve cover were 2 huge eye bolts, the type we used to lift huge signs into place.
>Any company that builds such things into their engines so they can be removed at any time...does not have any faith in that part so I was done right there.
Then the thing was in the shop 3 days out of every week.
>A couple of blocks from me, when I lived in California, was a shop that specialized in putting 350 Chevys in them.... He was always behind with trying to keep up with demand.
>Hers was the model that looks like someone just caught themselves having partially stepped on an unpeeled banana.
What is that? An S type?
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I do like the style of the ones with the 5 spoke wheel that looks like a mid 60s Pontiac wheel. They have dual headlights though the taillights had changed and I like one design over the other.
Someone beat me to it and called their's Draguar. See (not the best) photo.
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I'm a Chevy guy. I've never been let down by any of those I have had especially my '69 C/10 Step side.