Hi Kurt, Edouard. I read the article, and it brought back a flood of memories of my Father, he was a certified GM Tech at the local Buick Dealership. But on the weekends he would work on other peoples cars.
It was mostly tune-ups and brake jobs. He always had several wooden milk crates near the garage, I would pull one over stand on it and watch the master at work with all the funny shaped wrenches, the pointy thing with the lightbulb inside, the small round disk with all the numbers on it. Then he would get the wooden box with all the wires and hook it up to the motor with the flashing light and everything would be just right. I was allowed to help him clean up the tools and place them on the workbench and he would clean them off and return them to the tool chest.
Years later I would assist him by getting the tools he needed for the type of job he was doing, so I learned the names of the tools and where they lived in the tool chest. These were basic tools that you could work on any American car at the time. The most sophisticated tool he had was the Peerless Tach & Dwell meter that he kept in a wooden box under the workbench.
My Father is gone. He left me with great memories of working together, and I have all the tools I need to work on my Buicks Including That Peerless Tach & Dwell meter. Somethings just seem to last forever...
Tony
