Re: Dino update
A nice little side project has been completed with a fellow Dino owner. Only one of my cars came with it's original tool kit and as values of the cars are climbing so too are the price of all the accessories they came with when new. The original tool kit was of pretty laughable quality for such an expensive car and the prices originals fetch now is just crazy. A fellow UK Dino owner who has an engineering background, good contacts and incredible patience borrowed my original set and had everything reproduced by local small engineering companies. The lengths we went to to get all the details correct was borderline obsessive
One item that was seriously stumping us was finding suitable material to make both the tool roll bag and the bag the jack came in. Fortunately my friend just happened to have the owner of a fashion chain as a customer and this guy loves a challenge so we gave him an original bag and he passed it out to one of his supplier's to get a match to. The end result is simply superb and about a 98% match to the original items.
With the exception of the yellow jack, everything in these photo's is our reproduction items.