Ed Higginbotham
Ed Higginbotham Associate Editor
1/31/17 8:28 a.m.
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While we were enjoying our ramp truck greatly, we were frustrated that every time we needed a tool, we had to take a heavy tool box out of the side of the truck and put it up on our work bench—or at least on the bed of the truck to get a tool.

Using the same logic we used to …

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Ian F
Ian F MegaDork
1/31/17 12:04 p.m.

That's awesome! Not the tool box I would have used, but I can understand the vintage-vibe idea.

One question - is there anything to keep it from sliding into the truck-box door?

SyntheticBlinkerFluid
SyntheticBlinkerFluid UltimaDork
1/31/17 12:07 p.m.

I really like that setup.

DWNSHFT
DWNSHFT HalfDork
1/31/17 8:07 p.m.

I hope you reinforced it to death. A fifty pound tool box going over a thousand mile of bumps will be brutal.

Also, don't drive in Indiana, they have the worst roads in the country. They'll destroy this.

grover
grover GRM+ Memberand New Reader
2/2/17 9:13 a.m.

Man, this truck is really coming along. Love the toolbox on slides.

Tim Suddard
Tim Suddard Publisher
3/2/17 9:22 a.m.

We used double sliders and it is strong as hell. It stops when you roll it in. And this was my first tool box when I was 14 years old, so I had to use it! I put that Shelby sticker on the box in 1979 when I was 19 years old and had just gotten back from SAAC 4, my first Shelby convention.

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