Tool of the Ages

Two month’s ago, I wrote in this space about my misuse, misappropriation and general mis-handling of my grand-father’s tools in my formative years (When do those end? my wife asks.) Well, much to my pleasant surprise, I must have struck a chord because I have received more feedback and response from that column than any other I have ever written. And all positive, fortunately!

One of the first to chime in was our own “Last Lap” columnist Mike Lawrence who commented, “I bet you did not have a single reader who was not nod- ding his head at some point, or two, or three. Even for someone as cack-handed as I, tools exercise a strange fascination; it must be a primeval thing…after all, naturalists get excited if they see a chimp hit something with a stick because the stick ceases to be a stick, it becomes a tool.” Leave it to Mike to distill the automotive condition down to its purest form.