[BILL WILLIAMSON]

I worked on a Volvo with an oil leak in the rear. An OLD worn cardboard Quart oil can was dripping out the tool compartment drain plug!
We LOVED the old square Anti-Freeze cans, cut the side out & made bolts/nut trays. Even soldered an old radiator cap on the bottom & hooked them on the radiator, when doing engine area work. For under car work, used a coffee can with nail holes in the bottom & a wire hook to hold them. Then we'd just dunk it in the carb cleaner, to clean the nuts/bolts/etc. We had 4 carb dip buckets & somebody in the past had built an electric powered gearbox, a shaft with 4 cam lobes with BIG hinges above them. Just hook the baskets to wires on the hinges & they would agitate up & down. A carb was squeaky clean in 5 MINUTES!!
Somebody had built a Power Steering Test Bench, with motor, pump, gauges, etc, to adjust & test steering gears, BEFORE they went back in the car!! We did a lots of Chrysler/Plymouth steering gears. They were interesting, with their re-circulating ball design. The balls alternated, one blue, one silver, one blue, one silver----Well, you get it! There must have been a HUNDRED BALLS????
My '32 5 Window came with some OLD Plymouth steering box, always worked well, don't know what year box it was???
Recently saw a stock '29 Plymouth 5 Window Coupe, except for the WOOD wheels, it looked much like a Model A, even the bumpers could work on an "A" Bone.
Bill W.