My choice for "Best of show" at the 2012 Ventura Nats, Tim Jackson's "Yard Art" rat rod of wrenches

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Things I had to take home with me from the swapmeet. Doesn't being at a swapmeet make you realize you have to buy at least one thing that is cool, but you don't need?

 Hell no I am not going to work on Carter carbs, but I couldn't pass on this tool set for 20 bucks.

 I've never heard of Marvel Mystery Oil Company making anything but oil... so this had to find a home in my garage for 10 bucks

Starett is high quality, and this is accurate to one thousandth of an inch. Perfect for 20 bucks

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Whitworth tool find at the annual Big 3 spring Swap Meet, at Qualcomm (still going to be there tomorrrow if you can make it)

 All of these are at R H Parkers Garage, and it's under a large long grey canopy, about 10 rows from the North side of the Qualcomm parking lot

 This set is unusually helpful in that it has both Whitworth and British Standard sizes marked

 The Dowidat set is a German company, and good tools, I have a set of metric combo wrenches from Dowidatt

but the big score waiting for someone is this Bluepoint tap and die set, it's Whitworth. Only tap set for Whitworth I've ever heard of, a mechanics necessity

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