Jeremiah1981
Master Shake in Training
Hello everyone. I have a long story and a question...
When I was a kid, my father and his Father and Uncle owned a VW shop in NE Portland, Or. But they worked on more than VW's. He worked on Mustangs and built Harley's. But his favorite were VW's and he had built a bug he raced at the Portland International raceway and My Mother drove a VW bus he built from the ground up. When My Grandpa passed away they closed the shop, and the tools went into a closet. And my Dad used them to work on the family cars, but they pretty much stayed in a closet. When he passed away my brothers and I inherited them.
My brothers and I all moved into this house that had a garage, but the garage door was broken, so we hid the tools as best we could. Well, when my brother was working on his Honda prelude, he went to get to the tools, they were all gone, the rolling box and everything, someone just walked off with. The box was later found at the landlord's house (the landlord happened to be my friends dad) But he said the tools were missing when he took the box, but no one believed him (we had 5 roommates, it was a big house, and the landlords were kind of shady with us)
To this day, I don't really even remember what happened to the toolbox, I think they kept it because we left a couple cars there when we moved that we were trying to sell that eventually were stolen. (a nice 1980 Cadillac coupe deville and a POS 1990 Geo Storm that needed a clutch) I think the landlords sold them, they said they were towed, so we just call them stolen.
I said all of that to vent a little, I haven't really talked about it that much, and those tools were all that we had left that was our dad's. It's sad and frustrating. But as I begin my own collection over again, I am just wondering what I will need? I know screwdrivers and ratchets and wrenches, but what sizes and what else? I hope I have asked this clear enough. I am at work, and it's not easy talking about loosing those tools, because I feel betrayed and saddened because the loss of my fathers stuff.
Anyway, thanks for the help, back to work.
Have a great day
-Jeremiah
When I was a kid, my father and his Father and Uncle owned a VW shop in NE Portland, Or. But they worked on more than VW's. He worked on Mustangs and built Harley's. But his favorite were VW's and he had built a bug he raced at the Portland International raceway and My Mother drove a VW bus he built from the ground up. When My Grandpa passed away they closed the shop, and the tools went into a closet. And my Dad used them to work on the family cars, but they pretty much stayed in a closet. When he passed away my brothers and I inherited them.
My brothers and I all moved into this house that had a garage, but the garage door was broken, so we hid the tools as best we could. Well, when my brother was working on his Honda prelude, he went to get to the tools, they were all gone, the rolling box and everything, someone just walked off with. The box was later found at the landlord's house (the landlord happened to be my friends dad) But he said the tools were missing when he took the box, but no one believed him (we had 5 roommates, it was a big house, and the landlords were kind of shady with us)
To this day, I don't really even remember what happened to the toolbox, I think they kept it because we left a couple cars there when we moved that we were trying to sell that eventually were stolen. (a nice 1980 Cadillac coupe deville and a POS 1990 Geo Storm that needed a clutch) I think the landlords sold them, they said they were towed, so we just call them stolen.
I said all of that to vent a little, I haven't really talked about it that much, and those tools were all that we had left that was our dad's. It's sad and frustrating. But as I begin my own collection over again, I am just wondering what I will need? I know screwdrivers and ratchets and wrenches, but what sizes and what else? I hope I have asked this clear enough. I am at work, and it's not easy talking about loosing those tools, because I feel betrayed and saddened because the loss of my fathers stuff.
Anyway, thanks for the help, back to work.
Have a great day
-Jeremiah
