Mine is a 1962 Massey Ferguson farm tractor.
My grandfather, who lived to be 94, was a Swedish farmer who became an accomplished carpenter and builder before 1900, building everything from houses to nicely finished furniture. He kept his tools in a home-made wooden trunk the size of two large steamer trunks, one atop the other, with various compartments and removable trays. Grandpa built it to be functional; it looks clever, and works well. I still have that chest, and all the antique tools in it. I still use some of the tools for building things, though I am nowhere near as accomplished at it as grandpa was. At the moment, I have his large level and his small level out need to put them back. Grandpa is long gone, but I still miss him.
the closest I could come to vintage (50 years) is my manual typewriter which is 45 years old. Other things like my radio at 35 years old, but things before then in my family were run by hand like an egg beater (and I have one of those (69 years old) or an iron from older than that that used to be heated on a coal stove.
I still use an honest-to-God ten-pound chrome and glass Waring blender from the 1950s, a Toastmaster chrome and bakelite toaster from the same period, a refrigerator, range, and dishwasher from the same era, a Franklin stove from the 1960s (not changed much since the 1760s), a cassette tape recorder from the 1970s, a telephone from the 1980s, a Ford pick-up truck from the 1990s, and a computer monitor from way back in 2005.
My pet machine, and kind of my baby is an old South Bend metal lathe, from the 1940s. It doesn't get a lot of use, but when it's needed, nothing else can be substituted. I can keep most appliances running, and make most any other parts I need. When I was racing cars, in the 1950s and 1960s, it built untold thousands of dollars worth, of race car and engine parts. I have Yankee hand drill, that gets more use than my cordless electrics. My dad had this one before WWII. I still cut weeds with an old scythe. It was made before WWII also. Most of my basic Snap-On hand tools for mechanicing, were purchased before 1955. They still work, when anything needs fixing.
