Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Snap-on No Compromise Tour stops off in Kenosha, WI

This was a very nice event, hosted by Snap-on World Headquarters in Kenosha, WI. I think it may have been partly sponsored by several local Snap-on Distributors. It was a beautiful day yesterday. The heavy rains from the day before had passed through, leaving a perfect afternoon to spend outside, looking at cool cars, cool tools and other Snap-on products.
This is a car from Carbon Motors, currently in development for U.S. police departments across the country. Very cutting edge, they spoke with thousands of police officials and developed this car for them from the ground up, coming up with a total of 11,000 solutions to problems the police officers faced in their current vehicles. Snap-on is working with Carbon Motors on additional solutions.

AMC Javelin (thanks Jack!)

Inside Snap-on's Innovation Center, you'll find continually changing exhibits, similar to this.

Meanwhile, while I was getting a tour of the inside facilities, the Snap-on associates were enjoying hot dogs and hamburgers with their co-workers.

This is the back end of a 1957 Chevy. Note the Snap-on wrenches. More photos of this amazing car to come in tomorrow's post. The use of Snap-on tools was quite clever.


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