Tuesday, February 20, 2018

nice set of Plomb tools!










these wrenches in the roll ups? Were found in a dumpster. https://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showpost.php?p=6163705&postcount=1607

another guy is looking to make t-shirts to show his appreciation for Plomb tools


For anyone that isn't familiar with Plomb.... they were a tool company that made very high quality hand tools equal to, or better than Snap On, for earning a living with. Not a lot of flash and snappy looks to the tool boxes, but, since they had to change their name in 1947 to Proto you may not have heard of them, and if you see any, you immediately know those Plomb tools are at least 70 years old

How good were they? Vic Edelbrock's toolbox has nothing but Plomb
http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2011/05/vic-edelbrock-srs-tool-bench-tool-box.html

and when Ab Jenkins was at Bonneville setting world land speed record, he brought Plumb tools,

or the mechanic on his Duesenberg did, Augie Duesenberg. Now, really, who has ever made a better endorsement of a tool company than Vic Edelbrock and Augie Duesenberg?

https://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showpost.php?p=3304008&postcount=185

But I've never seen a tool box tag like this before


3 comments:

  1. Has anyone made Plomb t-shirts yet? The image from the Salt Flats shows the Plomb tent, where all the racers came to borrow tools. Nice blog and nice collection of Plomb and Proto, when they still made things in Los Angeles.

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  2. Thank you for all these wonderful pics. any idea where we can buy one of those tee shirts? Carl Snyder

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