Technical Cool Tool Found in a Parts Car

A few years ago, a friend & I bought 3 1958 Chevrolets (Impala, Bel Air & a Biscayne). We were brought them home and started cleaning them up . The old 4 door Biscayne was full of trash & junk. In the rear p***enger side floor was an old rusty B-3 Beverly Shear. I dis***embled it, cleaned away all the rust, painted & greased the friction points, installed new blades, re***embled the tool, fabricated an appropriate stand. It works great. That was indeed a score.

 

That’s a GREAT tool to have and use.
I love mine

 

What a score! The best I can do is find wrenches in my Cadillac bumpers.
I'll stick with my China copy of that shear and keep checking bumpers until I find one.

 

People who count their pennys, have more manual skills.

 

Very cool. I have a knockoff but it doesn’t have the part sticking out of top part of your shear. Is that to hold sheet metal in place when you pull down on the handle?.

 

Worth the price of admission!

 

I found a SnapOn adjustable wrench in the chopped 49 Shoebox I bought out of Kansas ten plus years ago. I should have left it (and the wrench) there

 

"And stop calling me Beverly!"

 

That arm is only on the B-3 model. The B-3 will shear 3/16” (7 gauge) steel. In the bottom of that arm, is a large ball (on several BB sized ball bearings. I suppose this could be necessary with a large piece of 3/16” steel being fed into the tool. The height of this arm is not adjustable. I’ve seen photos of these tools that have this floating ball replaced with a long bolt, allowing you to adjust the contact height.

 

Well thanks for the education. Shearing 3/16 by hand would negate trips to the gym I’m sure!

 

Best I ever managed was finding $600.00 under a seat cover. More than the cost of the car!

 

I have found odd tools in old cars, no 10 mm sockets so far. Junk cars with bench seats, we would slit the bottom of the seat from the back-seat side, coins, earrings and gold chains, pendants would fall out.

I have found bullets, old revolvers, notary stamps (expired), drugs, doctor prescription pads.

 

This is when the Santa Claus physique & the 3’ long handle come in handy.

 

When I was a kid, I would read those how to customize articles by George Barris and would wonder who is this lady, Beverley Shear?

 

The 'ball' type hold-down arm might be so you can slide and position the piece to be cut. (?)
And maybe even cut a curve and not just a straight line.

 

Finding Rhonda Shear in a trunk wouldn't be a bad thing.

 

Damned straight!

 

Wait a minute...isn’t she the sister of Billy Shear lead singer for Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band?

 

I use my B3 almost daily.

Well worth the investment.

 

Only tool I’ve ever found in a parts vehicle is me.

 

LOL