<VV> Origin of "Bone-Stock"?

[Eric S. Eberhard]

Believe it or not, though, it can be fun to try and figure out what 
the correct bolt is, get it, install it.  It is the fun of restoring 
correctly, the fun if the research, the fun of hunting for whatever 
the piece is, and often making it.  One person called it 
"intellectually fun" and that is how I view it.  I enjoy the process.

Funny story.  My brother has a WWII military Jeep that he fully 
restored "bone stock."  Jeeps were made by many companies at that 
time, including Ford, and had minor differences.  His is a Ford.  One 
difference is that all the bolt heads have an "F" engraved in the top 
of them (hard to imagine why they did that for a throw-away 
vehicle?).  They did not exist new, and any old ones are damaged, 
ugly, or stressed.  So my brother (an architect) recreated the design 
of the F script exactly on his computer, programmed it in to a 
machine at a machine shop owned by another family member, developed a 
tray to hold a bunch of bolts face up, and had the machine cut him 
thousands of bolts in all sizes with the correct "F" on them.  He did 
it for his own restoration, but made a lot more because machine setup 
was more than the cost of the bolts.  So he had a lot left over.  So 
he created an Internet company to sell them, and did quite 
well.  Well enough to make more runs.

The name of his company?  F'ing Bolt Company (really) and it did well 
for a decade until he ran out of bolts and lost interest.

Eric


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