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Title: Found my Vic Auto Tool!
Post by: Fireman on October 06, 2021, 08:24:15 PM
I was changing the cabin air filter in my Tacoma, which requires dropping the glove box.  I can usually do this without dumping everything in the glove box, but today everything rained out of it onto the floor.  I noticed a heavy thump, and there was the Auto Tool I remembered, but thought I must have lost permanently.  The air pressure gauge comes on (amazing), but the readout is wonky.  The light is muerte, but there may be a fix for it.

It gives me hope that I might yet find my oldest Buck 110 and Leatherman PST. 
Title: Re: Found my Vic Auto Tool!
Post by: McStitchy on October 06, 2021, 08:41:50 PM
He he... reminds me to my Micra I found in my bikes saddle bag once. It was resting there for 13 years  :D  Made me really happy!

Looking forward to see your oldest Buck 110 and Leatherman PST  :pok:
Title: Re: Found my Vic Auto Tool!
Post by: Aloha on October 06, 2021, 08:49:44 PM
 :drink: to lost things found.   
Title: Re: Found my Vic Auto Tool!
Post by: Poncho65 on October 06, 2021, 09:10:31 PM
I love finding things that I thought lost to the sands of time :woohoo:

Congrats :tu: :like: :like:

Now, pics :pok: :D
Title: Re: Found my Vic Auto Tool!
Post by: Alan K. on October 07, 2021, 12:22:18 AM
 :iagree:
 I recently found a bunch of knives that I wasn't sure if I'd sold but I hadn't seen for 2 or 3 years. Tremendously relieved that I hadn't sold them. They had been packed away in a storage bin and I found them when looking for something else. :cheers:
Title: Re: Found my Vic Auto Tool!
Post by: GearedForwards on October 07, 2021, 01:10:49 AM
Congrats!

Gives me hope of finding the Benchmade 940-1 I lost 6 years ago  :ahhh
Title: Re: Found my Vic Auto Tool!
Post by: Poncho65 on October 07, 2021, 01:23:10 AM
I lost my first Rebar about a year after they came out :facepalm: replaced it but never have seen it since :cry: kinda doubtful I will ever see it again but you never know :woohoo:

I have also misplaced a BO Rebar in the last couple years and also had to replace it :oops: I sure hope to find it again someday :dd:
Title: Re: Found my Vic Auto Tool!
Post by: Farmer X on October 07, 2021, 04:25:38 AM
Glad to hear you found your AutoTool. Maybe a little warranty work is in order? Sadly, my Leatherman Squirt ES4 won't be making its way back to me.
Title: Re: Found my Vic Auto Tool!
Post by: Fireman on October 07, 2021, 04:26:52 PM
The pouch is long gone, but the tool itself is virtually unused.  If you can't find it, you can't use it.  Right?   :ahhh :rofl:

I'd take a pic of the snow scraper, but it's one thing I would never need now.

(https://i.ibb.co/pybrp9j/IMG-7417.jpg)
(https://i.ibb.co/BLJWcmg/IMG-7418.jpg)
Title: Re: Found my Vic Auto Tool!
Post by: Aloha on October 07, 2021, 05:18:14 PM
Its a neat tool and kinda a surprise coming from Vic.  I found one a long time ago and was pretty stoked.  As part of a reevaluating of my collection I stupidly sold it off.  While I am not looking for one nor longing for one I would not have sold it today.  So glad it was found. 

If I could only recall the things I misplaced  :think:.   
Title: Re: Found my Vic Auto Tool!
Post by: Ron Who on October 07, 2021, 05:20:18 PM
I lost my first Swiss Army Knife in a knife throwing contest.  :ahhh  Never found it.  :ahhh
I prefer to think that it was a Chinese knock off but actually I don´t know.  :think:
Title: Re: Found my Vic Auto Tool!
Post by: Fireman on October 07, 2021, 05:26:39 PM
I lost my first Swiss Army Knife in a knife throwing contest.  :ahhh  Never found it.  :ahhh
I prefer to think that it was a Chinese knock off but actually I don´t know.  :think:

I had my first, which was a Japanese knockoff, for a long time before I lost it.
Title: Re: Found my Vic Auto Tool!
Post by: Ron Who on October 07, 2021, 05:35:02 PM
The second time I lost a SAK, it was my trusted camo Fireman I´d been carrying for years.
Somehow it fell out of my jacket pocket, right where it was camouflaged best, in the bushes.
I found it back after a long search, thanks to the orange lanyard I put on it.
Title: Re: Found my Vic Auto Tool!
Post by: GearedForwards on October 07, 2021, 05:36:50 PM
I had my first, which was a Japanese knockoff, for a long time before I lost it.

I still have my first... It's not good

At all

I pity my childhood self, it was a two pack knock off of a classic and some 93mm version that probably cost similar to what a real SAK cost  :facepalm:
Title: Re: Found my Vic Auto Tool!
Post by: Fireman on October 07, 2021, 07:41:43 PM
I still have my first... It's not good

At all

I pity my childhood self, it was a two pack knock off of a classic and some 93mm version that probably cost similar to what a real SAK cost  :facepalm:

I didn't know what I didn't know.  My uncle bought me the best gifts, usually from the Army-Navy Surplus store.  When I opened the box, it was real enough for me.  :D  I bought one last year, just for nostalgia, and you're absolutely right: they're awful.  But it reminds me of a time when lack of knowledge gave me more of a sense of wonder.   8)   

I thought about using it in tne SAK-alike challenge, but I knew I'd throw it off a dock before the halfway point.
Title: Re: Found my Vic Auto Tool!
Post by: Poncho65 on October 07, 2021, 07:45:13 PM
Always great to see pics of this tool :salute: Such a neat oddity from Vic :like:
Title: Re: Found my Vic Auto Tool!
Post by: GearedForwards on October 07, 2021, 07:53:55 PM
I didn't know what I didn't know.  My uncle bought me the best gifts, usually from the Army-Navy Surplus store.  When I opened the box, it was real enough for me.  :D  I bought one last year, just for nostalgia, and you're absolutely right: they're awful.  But it reminds me of a time when lack of knowledge gave me more of a sense of wonder.   8)   

I thought about using it in tne SAK-alike challenge, but I knew I'd throw it off a dock before the halfway point.

Oh I don't mean all knock offs in general, I had/have a stainless scaled one from Aldi that was even sharp  :ahhh

My first one had one of those saws that looks like it's made of compressed and vaguely polished cooking foil.