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<blockquote data-quote="Anonymous" data-source="post: 84016"><p>My oldest brother goes to estate auctions quite often, in this area many are old farms being split up and all the real estate and possesions of a couple of generations of farmers beig sold off in one day. Anyway he is always bring home shovels, rakes, picks and other assorted hand tools which he picked up dirt cheap, but these things last longer than any of the new crap you buy from Lowe's or HomeDepot. His theory on much of this stuff (most which came from the 50's like your friends Rambler) is in post war production; there were tons of tanks and other assorted stuff (made of superior grades of steel)left over that got melted down and used for all these new things. Added to that, the mindset of people that had come through the depression, it just made sense to build things that would last.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Anonymous, post: 84016"] My oldest brother goes to estate auctions quite often, in this area many are old farms being split up and all the real estate and possesions of a couple of generations of farmers beig sold off in one day. Anyway he is always bring home shovels, rakes, picks and other assorted hand tools which he picked up dirt cheap, but these things last longer than any of the new crap you buy from Lowe's or HomeDepot. His theory on much of this stuff (most which came from the 50's like your friends Rambler) is in post war production; there were tons of tanks and other assorted stuff (made of superior grades of steel)left over that got melted down and used for all these new things. Added to that, the mindset of people that had come through the depression, it just made sense to build things that would last. [/QUOTE]
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