What do you use for a drop or work light?

It's one of their customers...

It's all original car and in beautiful condition... 68 Olds 442 with a 400 engine... I believe they said that it has around 80 k original miles...

The guy is getting an edelbrock performer manifold installed...

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The garage does general mechanical work and is very good... They only fix what is needed and don't try to pump up the repair bill...

They specialize in exhaust work and do custom bending...

That's where we took Eddie's Dart to get the x-pipe... They did from the headers back and hooked it up to his existing mufflers...

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Here's the Dart after it was finished and we installed a distributor rebuild with a custom curve for it from @halifaxhops and tuned it in...






They are pretty cool guys that work there... I've hung out with them after work when they close the garage and have a few drinks... If they are closed when I get there, they will open the door and let me in and we hang out for a bit...

I've hung out with the owner a few times... One time I had two extra tickets to the Roger Waters concert performing the Wall at the Cub's stadium on a Saturday... I invited the owner and his GF to come... They happened to be able to reciprocate the next day as one of their other good customers gave them free tickets to a White Sox game... Awesome hook-up - paid parking near the entrance of the stadium, second level private booth with catered food and drinks all free with padded seats right behind home plate and even had waitresses taking drink orders and delivering them to you in your seat... You didn't have to pay for the drinks, just tip the waitresses if you felt necessary...

We all had a great time and that made an awesome weekend... Great concert on Saturday, and seats right behind home plate on Sunday... They were the best seats that I've ever had at a ball game... I told Mike after the game, "We have to hang out more often.."


The owner, Mike, is my buddy Doug's uncle... It turns out that he grew up in the neighborhood right next to the first one that I lived in when I was a kid... I get to walk in the back of the shop and hang out with them when I go there, even though 'regular' customers are not allowed in the shop....

the underhood light in the second pic looks similar, if not identical to the Milwaukee cordless I got for xmas. I got two 4A, 12v batteries this morning, and charged them both up in a few hours. It has a hi(1350lumen) and lo(600lumen) setting, and is supposed to stay lit for 4hrs on the hi setting, 8hrs on the lo setting.
I got it as a gift, otherwise I would have had to think real hard about buying it myself, because I guess it was just over $200, without batteries, or charger. Fortunately, I already had a dual charger which handles 12v and 18v simultaneously. And I bought some "Milwaukee copy-cat" batteries for 1/2 price online.
It puts out a good broad flood of light for the top of the engine compartment, but I think you'll still need a smaller, more portable light source for individual situations like you'd need a trouble light for. The thing I like best is that the LED light is cool, bright, and no cords to trip over.