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Best tool display in a garage? I think so

Found in the annual Hot Rod Delux Best of issue, 2011

New England has a really cool used tool store, Liberty Tool in Liberty, Maine

found on http://www.acontinuouslean.com/

This store in Liberty Maine has been in business for the better part of the last decade, but with this well produced video, it ought to get more business now that more people know about it. May the business last and thrive!

the business is online as well as a walk in, and you can take a look at the website to buy from home if you (like so many of us) can't travel to Maine http://www.libertytoolco.com/tools.html . If you do drive through Maine and want to stop by, they are about 25 miles East of Augusta Maine, on Interstate 95, if you exit the I95 on route 3 http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Liberty,+ME+04949&ll=44.362642,-69.379349&spn=0.428067,1.054001&oe=UTF-8&hnear=Liberty,+Maine+04949&gl=us&t=h&z=11&vpsrc=6

They used to sell via ebay, but since the costs of ebay have risen, they are now just using their own website! Bravo!

Photos from http://www.libertytoolco.com/about.html

denim Vespa and tool display from Chris's website - Speedseekers (NSFW though, look at this only at home, and not in front of the wife on Wednesday... )

See more at http://speedseekers.blogspot.com/

Amazing, Stephen Wright has duplicated the Studley tool chest in wood... that is an amazing tribute to a masterpiece

I came across this at the San Diego County Fair,... in the wood wood working display area, I had never even heard of before... wow, lots of great stuff there!

I posted the Studley tool chest a couple times before below: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2008/07/look-at-tools-cause-without-them.html is it posted with a couple other incredible tool collections, but now I've just found the video posted below

In July 1988, the back cover of Fine Woodworking magazine featured an awe-inspiring unrivaled object: the vintage 19th-century tool chest of Massachusetts master carpenter piano maker Henry Studley built his magnificent tool chest over the course of a 30-year career at the Poole Piano Company.

For every tool, Studley fashioned a holder to keep it in place and to showcase it. Miniature wrenches, handmade saws, and some still unidentified piano-making tools each have intricate inlaid holders. Tiny clasps rotate out of the way so a tool can be removed. In places the clearances are so tight that the tools nearly touch.

The chest lived on the wall near his workbench, and he worked on it regularly, making changes and adding new tools as he acquired them. Using scraps from piano making ebony, mother-of-pearl, ivory, rosewood, and mahogany -- all materials used in the manufacture of pianos -- he refined the chest to the point that now, more than 80 years after his death, it remains in a class of its own.

the most incredible thing is that even though to se it open is amazing, you don't realize how much more is in store until you see on the video that what is on the surface are just racks, ans they hinge up to expose another layer below! See it on this video

Studley was well into his 80s when he retired from the piano company. Before he died in 1925, Studley gave the tool chest to a friend. That man's grandson, Peter Hardwick, loaned the chest to the Smithsonian National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C. in the late 1980s and later sold it to a private collector

extremely great photos from 21 studs tumblr, excellent site, part 2

Ain't that the cutest thing you've seen today?

1950 Nash dealership

Navy Shore Patrol helping a fellow sailor into a Medical Department ambulance

I think this is the earliest american flag tank I've seen, and it looks great on this bike

a Ford dealership in 1932

Ozark mountineer burro train ride (can't read the last word)

The Rebel Gal crew and the partially completed nose art that shows how one artist made the painting the right scale
see more at http://21studs.tumblr.com/

the Model A Ford complete factory provided tool kit

Vic Edelbrock Sr.'s tool bench, tool box (Kennedy) and tools (Plvmb)

I point out the Plvmb (pronounced plumb) tools because they are very high quality Los Angeles made from before 1947, after that they had to change the company name to prevent copywrite problems and are now made in the name Proto tools (PROfessional TOols) http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/11/professional-tools-which-were-plvmb.html

This display is part of the Edelbrock facility in Torrence, I was there for the annual Revved up For Kids charity car show the Edelbrocks put on every year. Inside the building is Vic's Garage where the cars from the 40+ years of Vic Edelbrock Jr company, publicity, research, and personal cars are on display, and I'll have them posted shortly. One of them is a 1969 440 6 Pack Super Bee