if you've been waiting to find a Sun Distributor Tester... there's one on San Diego Facebook Marketplace for 1700

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/766858066317246

I was curious about Sun distributor tuner and engine analyzers, and what happened to that company, it turns out, Snap On bought Sun

 https://www.nytimes.com/1992/09/01/business/company-news-snap-on-tools-to-buy-sun-electric-for-110-million.html

probably the coolest name for a garage in the past 20 years, the No Kill Car Shelter

the No Kill Car Shelter in Port Richmond, a neighborhood on the river in Philadelphia, has been buying clunkers, wrecks, beaters, and heaps from around the tri-state area — and not so much repairing them as transforming them into rat rods

https://www.inquirer.com/entertainment/no-kill-car-shelter-port-richmond-vintage-cars-20240703.html

https://www.inquirer.com/newsletters/morning/no-kill-car-shelter-port-richmond-parker-block-cleaning-20240703.html

https://www.facebook.com/nokillcarshelter/

https://www.facebook.com/reel/1485709752311418

one hell of a garage display

https://www.facebook.com/AirCooledClassicsPorsche/posts/pfbid0fuXmqrcisrCWtpvUUv6A6h6vBexhZP9XWyBqDefRGTVNCivzTkwMPzh4tKQgYWLsl

some of the interesting things coming to auction this August at RM/Sothebys

and if you want a Ford item you'll never see anywhere else, ever, just for a conversation piece, here's Ford Tomato Juice. 

https://rmsothebys.com/en/home/lots/AF21 for the complete listing, and if you want a Cushman or 30s Ford (but no 32 roadsters) you're in luck, there's dozens if each

There's an auction in Atlanta that has some cool interesting stuff, focused mainly on Corvettes, Jeeps, and tractors (thanks Doug!)

interesting, and rare, like this Jeep ambulance body for example

or a couple half tracks that are currently under 1000 dollars, and with a couple for parts, a rebuild seems far more possible to happen

a couple small 1940s John Deere tractors

a 1953 GMC deuce and a 1/2

A 1953 Daimler Ferret Scout w/ Rolls Royce engine, for under 6 thou

a 63 Split window for about 52 thou

a Sun distributor tester for 300

there's a Whizzer

a Korean War era M38

and a 1949 tank - which every pain in the ass will tell you isn't a real tank, but is a "self propelled gun" so- like I said, it's a tank. Canadian, so maybe it's all Whitworth nuts and bolts, or metric. Who knows?  If you're one of the pain in the ass people that is compelled to correct everyone who doesn't give a damn about the specifically technical accurate definitive catagory for old tanks? Zip it. Realize that no one else wants to be corrected UNLESS they ask you what the hell are they looking at. Then you can tell the the right words, and when you see their lack of comprehension, you'll remember I told you so, and you'll probably say "like a tank, but without the bigger cannon turret"

plus a lot of Corvette parts, tractor parts, etc etc.



https://bullseyeauctions.bidwrangler.com/bid/38331?item=2325922&section=items

1934 American Austin with a portable distributor tuner

http://libwww.freelibrary.org/digital/item/zoom/29326
https://libwww.freelibrary.org/digital/collection/home/page/402/id/automobile-reference

A couple cool little items in the Dingman collection auction

https://rmsothebys.com/en/home/lots/DM18

Coolest thing I saw at the swap meet today, a collection of old tuning equipment, now garage art, priced to sell

this marvelous machine above I think is priced at $900

this is the only one I figured I had any potential to afford, and I was right. $175

Now, if I'd put his business card in my pocket, instead of my car, I'd put his info here. 

In the 1930's garage that Thomas bought, not only was there a Sun 600 Distributor tester, there was also a Sun 1115 Performance Analyzer

http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=51567&page=186

how much does a Sun Tune Up Tester go for? $5000

Sold from the Andrew's collection http://www.rmauctions.com/ac15/the-andrews-collection/lots/sun-200-tune-up-tester/1072461