It is an old hot rod term from the '40s when hot rodders (like some race
drivers) referred to their car as a tool.
"Lets take the tool down to the drive-in" got shortened to "Lets Tool down
to the drive-in."
Gerry
-----Original Message-----
From: Fred Schuchard [mailto:fschuch@mindspring.com]
Sent: Monday, March 26, 2001 7:54 AM
To: Morgan List
Subject: "Tooling around"
Hi Listers!
Recently, in a discussion with a fellow British car enthusiast, the
expression, "tooling around" was used. He wondered about the origin of this
expression. I told him that someone on the Morgan forum HAD to know! How
about
it?
Fred Schuchard
'63 Plus 4 DHC
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