Newbie here.. Just received this old Mercedes tool kit. Looks like a MAN expandable tool bag (with rooster clasps) that has holders for wrenches, screwdriver, pliers, hammer, in the front compartment. Rear compartment holds tire tools, extension rods. Found a tag inside that says 10M. Marks I'm guessing? Anyway, the black finished tiretools are all Heyco, and MAN Matador. They have some codes as well. The blue extension rods are unknown with no markings. the bright finished tools look to be a matched set and are all stamped Chrome Vanadium and W. Germany with the exception of one open end that is stamped "Mercedes Benz." The pliers are likewise stamped Chrome Vanadium and W. Germany. The hammer is stamped W. Germany and 550. The air hose is for vehicles with onboard air and is uncoiled with original fiber ties. All look to be unused. The "line man" style pliers are still in the protective oil paper.

A guy that used to own a parts distributorship seemed to think it was supplied in the 60's or early 70's.

Any help on date, type of model they belong to and value would be appreciated!

BD

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Ahh, for the good old days when cars came with tools. Nowadays, some cars don't even come with a spare tire!

!n 1973, I acquired my first Mercedes, a 1961 Ponton 180b. It came with the factory tool kit, wrapped in an olive-colored canvas roll. There were two wrenches, a pliers, a sparkplug tool, and a wood-handled screwdriver with a pair of reversible blades. The tools were marked MERCEDES-BENZ and DOWIDAT. The lug-wrench and jack wouldn't have fit in the tool roll. Those came mounted separately in the trunk.

Many years later, at the Carlisle Pa. Import Flea Market, I bought two more Mercedes tool rolls, as they were missing from my 250 sedan and my parents 250 Coupe.
I believe those were late '60 to early '70s and one of the rolls may have come from a Pagoda SL. Both sets are marked MERCEDES-BENZ and are nearly identical to my Ponton set, except that the tools are chrome plated and are marked HEYCO. Also, one of the tool rolls was maroon canvas instead of olive, and had an extra wrench and a wheel installation bolt.

Back in the late '60s to early '70s, before dollar davaluations priced many German goods out of the US market, One could find German tools for sale, even at places like K-Mart. And in 1983, I bought a German Stahlwille tool roll for my '71 Audi, from my local VW dealer, who was selling them at the closeout price of $25. That kit came with several double-end open wrenches, a double-end box wrench, pliers, feeler guage, 14 MM allen wrench, a 3/8 ratchet with two extensions, 6 sockets, including a sparkplug socket, 3 screwdrivers and a red washcloth, with a small tube of German hand-cleaner. All wrapped in a shiny blue vinyl tool roll with the VW Wolfsburg crest printed on the outside.
Some of your chrome wrenches look very similar to the ones from my VW kit, especially the box-end wrench.
I'd guess that your only Mercedes tool is that one wrench marked MERCEDES-BENZ.

Happy Motoring, Mark

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MAN is a german truck builder and has been (and maybe still is) in a joint-venture with Volkswagen. Judging by the size of the tools displayed I'd say that this is a tool set of one of the lighter MAN trucks (build in cooperation with Volkswagen). The Mercedes wrench must have ended up in there by accident.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Commercial_Vehicles#MAN_AG_and_Volkswagen_AG_Partnership

Here's a good article on Mercedes tool kits from the ponton era.

http://www.mbzponton.org/valueadded/maintenance/toolkit.htm

Len

Thank you Sokoloff - That was a very interesting article. I had been wondering about Tool kits just in the last day or so. Good Timing

Regards

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2dieseljohn
1979 300sd (283,000+) Road Trips
1983 240D 4-speed (350,000+) Daily Driver
1967 E-TypeS1 in bits and pieces

old tool kits are becomming very valuable if from a rare and or valuable car.

i have seen tool kits for ferraris from the fifties and sixties offered for $5k.

i am sure some of the old benz kits are pretty valuable too.

tom w

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[SIGPIC] Diesel loving autocrossing grandpa Architect. 08 Dodge 3/4 ton with Cummins & six speed; I have had about 35 benzes. I have a 39 Studebaker Coupe Express pickup in which I have had installed a 617 turbo and a five speed manual.[SIGPIC]

..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.

Old tools in general are becoming collectable and car tools have gone thru the roof. My Jag. kit is over $1200 I often wonder what new tools or cool car parts I could fund.

Last week at a yard sale I was given a bucket of rusty tools and to make a long dirty story short, they are rare Pre- War PLOMB tools www.pweb.jps.net
and worth a bunch of new tools or car parts. Some of them are of such outstanding Quality I don't and probably won't get rid of them.

Someday I hope to have a compleate kit for all my cars.

Regards

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2dieseljohn
1979 300sd (283,000+) Road Trips
1983 240D 4-speed (350,000+) Daily Driver
1967 E-TypeS1 in bits and pieces