Barney Navarro Treasures

Here are some picture of the new treasures I got from Donna Navarro. I bought his old tool box filled with his machining tools. And then she gave me the real treasure. All his old check books, sales slips, time book for his employees, Tom Beatty for one. Here are some pictures. I plan to keep some and lend some to the Peterson and NHRA museum.

 

here is the old check book.

 

WOW!!!
very cool!

 

What ryan said. WOW!

 

RAD....

Navarro is one of my heros......

 

Less 25%.....those guys were getting the hook-up. very cool.

 

Here are some pictures of the tool box. This is too cool for words. And the locks still work. Nothing is going to leave the box. Also here is a picture of a metal NAVARRO stamp.

 

Oh man....that stamp is cool......

Imagine all the history.....if that stamp could TALK....

 

that is some serious history there for sure. i like that So Cal Speed Shop got the 25% discount. and the prices for the manifolds back then wouldnt cover the tools to fix the striped holes in the manifolds today!

 

Man, that is really cool.

And I thought my invoice, envelope and water decal from a set of heads I bought from him in the 90's was awesome.

I'd have lost it over that stuff!

 

My buddy Mister Jalopy picked up a bunch of cool stuff from the Barney Navarro estate sale a couple years back, including a set of Indy car wheels and Navarro's personal creeper...

http://hooptyrides.blogspot.com/2005/08/navarro-auction.html

 

here is picture of his torque wrench. It was like my best Christmas ever.

 

Barney was a Ruler.

 

Wow .... Tom worked for about a dollar an hour ... thanks for posting & congratulations on getting a great piece of history.

 

I love seeing this stuff, I can just imagine all the invoices being written out, I'm at a loss of words right now...

 

Cherish that stuff.. They are true treasures.. His hands and those tools made the legend.. TOO COOL!!!

 

Thats insane man...you have some priceless treasures that belonged to a genius who was one of my heroes.

Guard it with your life !!

Rat

 

very cool stuff ..

 

That isn't a tool box, it is a treasure chest. Very cool. Pat.

 

cool stuff!

 

sweet!

 

Talk about a chunk o' history!

 

Very cool........

 

Wow, So-Cal shows paid in full !...I'm joking.
Notice 9 invoices in a month? No one was getting rich.

Look in the toolbox for a stamp that says "second"
In the late sixties? (70's?) He called with a deal on a batch of intakes.
Cheap.We bought 'em.They were all stamped "second"
As in blem.
Just like tire guys do to move product,nothing wrong with it except the stamped"blem"
in the sidewall.
Super cool if that was in there.

 

Looks like that stuff went to the right guy. I think it's righteous that nothing leaves the box.

 

It`s great you guy`s are carrying the torch. and care about the history .
that toolbox need a gl*** case around it with all the draws open .
that paper work is a great look back in time . dose socal still get 25% off ?

 

WOW, I'm getting chest pains just thinking about what it would be like to be the recipient of this stuff! Have you considered loaning (temporarily) all of it to the Peterson? What a great exhibit it would make.

I love those old Kennedy tool boxes. I have two and would buy any I ran across. They are a cl***ic comparison from a standard that existed back in more "traditional" times to the mega "storage facility" size boxes usually seen in all the shops nowadays.

Anyway.... Congratulations on a truly great find.

 

Prices went up a little bit when I got mine in 2005 lol. Glad I got them from Barney when he was still alive, the hand written letter that came with them will always be kept with my most prized possessions

 

figuring inflation how does the old prices compare with todays prices? maybe have to use J.C.Whitney prices?