X-Tools

[friday]

Several manufacturers tout their tools as "Offifial tools of the so-and-so". Wouldn't it be awesome if a car magazine in concert with "Firehouse" would test all the X-tools ( incorporating something like UL tests along with something flashy like a dismembering a retired racing car with a roll cage and including the smaller tools and manual tools for local dirt tracks) and maybe see if they could tie it into the "X MEN" craze, especially now that the movie is out and doing very well. Wouldn't that be a magazine excerpt to pass out everywhere?! I think I'll look into getting permission from the manufacturers of all X-tools to put their tools on trading cards. If the magazine supplied the cards and fire dept's sold them as a fund raiser for extrication equipment, do you think it would catch on nationally? Would Amkus, Curtiss-Wright, Genesis, Holmatro, Hurst, Kinman, Lukas, Marvel Comics, Nike, Hi-lift, O Connell, Paratec, Phoenix, TNT, or Zmag go for it? Does anyone know how to find out if "X-Tools" is already a registered trademark? Maybe fire extinguisher manufacturers would do the same and sell some to pit crews, or kids would have a favorite and rum-dum their parents into carrying one in the car or putting one in the kitchen- wouldn't that be fantastic? Would "Firehouse" be interested? I would be happy to do anything I could to help.

Capt. Dan