Projects Early 30's Snap-on Tool Box Restoration

I'm working on one of my vintage tool boxes. I'm a sucker for Snap-on. Here are some pics of the box that I doing up right now.

More to come,

Punko

 

First coat of primer.

 

Cool ....keep us posted...I have my Dad's oak machinest tool box he restored. Got to love old tool boxes.

 

HEY! ive got that exact box. nice....now youve got me thinkin...

 

Cool deal man! Get on it!

 

looking good so far. i'm partial to snap on too. that's going to be a great looking box when you're done.

 

cool...were they red back in the day?

 

Thanks guys. This particular box was battle ship grey. For a while they most of the small tool boxes were grey and the bigger ones were red. I have another Snap-on box that's wrinkle grey, it's pretty cool too circa '37.

 

I have the one in the first post. Thanks for ID'ing the date.

 

No problem man. The first one is circa '32. On the little boxes there's really no way to exactly know the date of the box. On the cantilever box, Snap-on made that particular one from 32-46 or '48. They'll have Patent No.s and some with serial no.s, but they don't have a date stamp or an insignia stamp, like the tools do.

You just need to have some knowledge and trust who you're buying from that the stories are accurate, which most of them are.

I bought the cantilever box from an old man that said is was from the early '30's, since I know they started making these boxes in '32, I'm at least confident that the box is between 32/34.

Anyway, probably more than you wanted to know, but there it is.

Punko

 

First coat outside, still working on the inside.

 

Looks great! I'd love to have something like that for the back of the car.

Jay