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I thought of buying a repro spare tire tin, but I missed my opportunity. AFAIK, the only ones available now are the EMPI-branded ones.

I settled for an OEM 21/36.$78 on eBay. I also have the original pliers from our ‘60 Kombi tool kit.
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Dave at Vintage German (local AC shop) has an original VW tin from BITD. He doesn’t want to sell it, but he’d take $750 for it.  

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@imperial posted:

Originally there were Hazel stamped ones and VW stamped ones from Germany ,

Empi just sent on of those to China  to copy ,

There was also a company making replica VW ones with VWs blessing  , but that was probably 20 plus years ago

I think I first started getting interested in them as the pre-EMPI reproductions were becoming scarce. You could still find them on The Samba and eBay for ~$200.  But I was still hoping one of my brothers would confess to having ours rat-holed somewhere. By the time I gave up, the EMPI ones were all that was available, other than the odd OEM one for $750-$1,000.

ps: it’s Hazet, not Hazel.

@MusbJim posted:

I hate when autocorrect messes with the shirt I write! :-)

@dlearl476 posted:

One of my favorite autocorrect slams was conservative Nicolle Wallace, GWB’s assistant press secretary and host of Deadline White House tweeted “Dear Apple, never in my life having I wanted to tell anyone to “Duck Off.”

For me, it works exactly the opposite of this.

I'll have some benign sentence about a machine and a solution, and Siri will think I'm describing a desire for something kinky in some pretty graphic terms. She also supposes I have a potty-mouth like a sailor.

Siri needs to clean it up.

IIRC, Griots used to sell either Beta or Facom when they first started out. I think they dropped them, probably because nobody saw the beauty of a $500 set of combination wrenches.



eta: It was Facom. I did buy a 5 tray tool box from them when they were selling them. It’s not too bad, $85. Mine is all red.

Their 150 piece automotive set is $2300.00.

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