Modern Tool Roll Befitting a Ferrari

Like so many fellow FChatters, I've been watching the Tool Roll threads for months now, and monitoring eBay for authentic tools/rolls as their prices went through the penthouse roof. I even snagged a couple of tools from eBay, as I started to build up a kit from scratch, since my car, sadly, came without its original tool kit.

Then, one Sunday morning in June, I blew a heater hose, and was rescued by a friend who loaned me a screwdriver and a pair of scissors. There I realized, that for this one simple common roadside repair, the original Ferrari tool roll didn't even have all the tools I needed (no blade to cut off the hose, no mirror to see the split hose)!

So, I decided to put together a modern tool kit, that would actually have everything I needed to make a roadside repair for common things that can reasonably be expected to go wrong when driving a Ferrari....

I decided to go with top quality tools that would actually work (nothing worse than breaking a tool, while trying to fix a broken car), and more or less vintage to my car's era (1988.5 Ferrari 328 GTS)... I included a couple items that will never practically be used roadside (spark plug socket) just because they were included in the original Ferrari kits. Oh, and I included Duct Tape and 20feet of 14AWG wire!

Here's what I came up with, and the actual costs, totaling just north of $800:
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The cost breakdown is shown in the table. Big ticket items are the Leatherman tools at $280 for the pair. Entire kit would have been $526 without them. Other than that, the tools are all high quality - Snap-on and Craftsman - which are a bit spendy, even though I bought most of the Snap-on wrenches on eBay to get vintage ones (for le$$).

At Ricambi, the replacement tool kit is north of $600 for 8 wrenches, 4 screwdrivers, spark plug socket and a pair of pliers. For the exact equivalent here in Snap-on and Craftsman, total cost would be about $225. That makes this seem like a little better deal, I think.

Finally - with this kit, you can actually fix most anything that's likely to go wrong on the road, and then some. (in over 40 years as a gearhead, I've never needed a spark plug socket roadside.) Ferrari kit lacks even a blade to shorten a hose, when my heater hose blew...

 

Many tool rolls are available on eBay, if you search "Tool Roll", or "Ferrari Tool Roll"... Mine came from a seller named cmullinix, who offers custom embroidery service for a nominal fee.

 

Alberto,
Yes, I agree that the photos you posted show a much closer replica of the original Ferrari tool roll.... but, of course, that was not the point of my project. I wanted to improve on the original (OMG - did he really commit such blasphemy????), to create a tool kit that is actually more useful for the Ferrari driver today. For me, that original replica tool kit STILL wouldn't have had the tools I needed to cut off the split end of the heater hose so I could reattach it and limp home.

 

Ross,
I agree with your preference for combination wrenches, with their advantages in knuckle preservation... however, it takes twice as many combination wrenches to get the same number of sizes, so I opted to include sockets and ratchets, to achieve nearly the same result. Oh, and I bought Snap-on open-end wrenches, because they have less reputation for spreading under pressure and slipping off, to skin my knuckles!

 

Tinterow,
Nope, Tim isn't kidding - in fact, if you look at my pictures, you can see that my tool roll is made by Custom Leathercraft (CLC) just like the one you linked! The difference is that mine cost $52 because of the Ferrari emblem embroidery, and another $7 for the VIN embroidery, compared to the $12.95 for a generic one. I wanted those Ferrari features, so I was willing to spend the extra $$ for them... But I'd certainly see no problem with saving $47 by getting the generic one!

 

Mike 996... I love it, but I wish they'd included some sense of scale in that picture, like a ruler or a real prancing horse or something.... How can I tell if that can fit in the trunk of my 328????