Old Snap-on tool box -- As Purchased

It's a small top box.  Based on the construction, it looks pretty old.  Maybe 1950s?  There's a lot of paint loss and surface rust all over the exterior. 

Typically, Snap-on uses red for background color.  Don't know when they went away from this blue... 

There's some sturdy handles on the sides. 

The handles are in good condition, functionally. 

The back of the box isn't too bad. 

The lid and front are attached to each other and hinged.  So, when the box lid is opened, it stays in this slightly over vertical position. 

There's a removable tray with a handle that rotates down to clear the lid when it's closed.  The tray is in pretty decent condition. 

When the tray is removed, there's some reasonably good condition original finish under the tray.  It's a wrinkle finish paint and it looks like a very dark gray color.  I wonder if it was originally black and has just faded slightly to this color or if the original paint was this nearly black color.  Either way, I don't think I can find any dark gray/nearly black wrinkle finish paint.  It's pretty easy to get black wrinkle finish paint.  I think I may repaint the entire tool box with black wrinkle finish paint. 

There's two drawers.  They're pretty sticky but do have sliders that allow the drawers to fully open.  The slides are not stopping at the end of it's travel.  So, if you open the drawers too far, they fall out of the slides... 

The bottom drawer is deeper and has some compartments partitions out in the rear.

The upper drawer is a little shallower and has some different built in dividers.  I'm guessing these compartments were meant to have specific tool sets in them.  I wonder if I can find pictures of an old catalog showing the tools...

The bottom lip of the front of the tool box is damaged and bent (below the center of the bottom drawer). 

This picture looking down at the lower lip shows the damage.  It appears to be due to the lock mechanism's rotating tab being not in the right place. 

Also, the bottom of the lid's lower portion is also bent.  Will need to straighten this out too. 

The bottom right corner of the lower lid is bent.  Should be able to bend it back close to the right shape.

Looking straight down on the top of the tool box lid. 

The surface rust on the top of the box lid is pretty severe.

The bottom of the toolbox is not too bad.  It actually has less rust than the top! 

One end of the bottom is worse than the rest of it.

This picture illustrates how bent the lower lid is.

The corrosion on the front inside of the toolbox isn't too bad.

The inside of the top lid surface is actually in pretty good condition.

The inside surface of the lower lid is also not too bad.

These tow push washers hold the Snap-on logo plate.

The rotating tab should be much closer to the edge of the lid than it is.  The screw head for the lock interferes with the lower drawer and makes it difficult to lock the box.  The lock mechanism is probably not original to the box and is too deep.  It either needs to be spaced back, modified or replaced with a thinner lock.