Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: hblair on August 29, 2002, 01:03:07 PM
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One of our bodymen just added another box onto his Snap-on rig. The cabinet hanging on the right was the latest addition. H'es got us all beat by a lot. And I mean a lot. Anybody care to take a guess at how much money he's got wrapped up in this set of boxes? And I'm just talking the boxes. None of the tools inside.
BTW, if you see your local snap-on tool distributors truck, pull him over and rough him up.
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He building a race car for the Great Transcontinental Race or something?
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Poor corvette. :(
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Id say about 20-30K
used to have a nice snap-on set that set me back about 11k:eek:
Moto_MOL
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YES! Death Race 2000 one of my fav all time cult films!
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That much for friggin' BOXES? WTF is going on in the world?
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Golly, hblair....no WalMart or Sears stores near ya? :D
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Whenever I see a picture of Hblair's shop I'm struck by just how clean everything is. Definately a good indication of a shop that does quality work.
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Originally posted by Elfenwolf
Whenever I see a picture of Hblair's shop I'm struck by just how clean everything is. Definately a good indication of a shop that does quality work.
It takes a lot of work to clean up all the forensic evidence. You really need attention to detail for that.
-Sikboy
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Is this guy compensating for some unseen ... ahem ... shortcoming?
just askin.
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There are other cabinet manufacturers out there doing high quality work for much cheaper. Lista comes to mind. Stanley is another. We used to sell a lot of stuff like this to intel, and Snap-on always had the highest bid (by far).
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Yer too kind elfy. You're setting me up for a troll I can tell. Funny Sikboy. :) And you thought frame racks were for unibodies. They do well quartering bodies too. :D
Greese, I agree, snap-on is freakin astronomical on their prices. Very good tools, but they cost too much imo. It gets to being like wearing the cool clothes in high school. Some guys who really can't afford it buy the huge boxes. (this guy can afford it BTW).
I paid $2500 for my MAC boxes back in 1990, and they're 1/4 the storage capacity.
The answer to the riddle is $17,500. The bottome box, top box, two side cabinets and coil spring wheel package was in the neighborhood of 17,500. That's empty boxes and not one tool. All the tools inside are snap-on too. All in all he's got well over 50 grand in tools.
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damn! His box setup there costs the same as my car did I think!
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Fifty Grand.
American.
How much is that stuff worth on the 'black market'?
Yer shop insured?
Maybe we can works omething out... ;)
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Originally posted by Nifty
damn! His box setup there costs the same as my car did I think!
You think that's bad? I can take all 6 cars I've ever owned, add up the cost paid, multiply it by 2.5 and still have $250 for gas lol.
-Sikboy
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Maybe I'm missing something here...why would anyone need a $17,500 tool box? Is there something that such a box offers that others don't? Is it some kind of status thing? I am genuinely curious; this is not a flame.
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Redneck status symbols.
At least he doesn't post pictures of his vanity plate on the internet.
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yes , johnny , it's a status thing and snap-on gives ez credit terms to techs. snap-on has the highest prices for boxes and tools in the world. my tool "set" looks like something from the flea market, snap-on main box , mac upper box and hang ons and tools from every mfg that ever made tools in the last 40 years.
44MAG
auto tech for the last 40 years
PS: even have some wentworth/british-standard tools from when i worked on MG TD's
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Originally posted by funkedup
Redneck status symbols.
At least he doesn't post pictures of his vanity plate on the internet.
Yeah, Funkedup. One would have to be pretty gay to do something like that.
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my toolbox is a custom made heavy canvas tote.. had it nearly 25 years now. Outta that nodescript shapeless mouldy motheaten stained and disreputable bag I can build a plane, rig a boat, strip down an engine, diagnose a motor, rewire your house or perform surgery on a cat.
There might be 800 dollars worth of tools in it. On one occasion about 15 years back, it was stolen.. when i found it, the tools were gone.. the thief obviously was clueless. That old bag was worth more to me than all the stuff it ever held.
Never met a mechanic worth a toejam yet that would hesitate a second when it came time to chose between eating and paying the snap-on bill.
He might starve, his wife leave him, his family disown him.. but he'll still have his bright red snap-on roll-away to park his greasy coffee mug on tomorrow morning.
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It costs about the same of a good car?
Why dont he keep his stuff in a normal box?
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Christ hb
I only paid $31,000.00 for my 1996 Corvette and that is in CND. If thats what he spent on his box and tools, please tell me he drive a fediddlein 1967 427 corvette coupe.
Dog out............