What’s the Most Useless but Necessary Garage Trinket?

We have a lot of internal conversations here at Hagerty Media that influence our work. Sometimes these chats turn into questions like, “Who wants a Lucas Oil demonstrator?” and, “Should we buy them in bulk for everyone?”

Well no, we should (and did!) not buy the gears soaked in oil; that’s an impulse purchase we just don’t need. But it got us thinking about what could be the most useless but necessary trinket for your garage. Here’s my contribution.

Okay, it’s not exactly my contribution, as I pinged my good friend Murilee Martin, the author of our Final Parking Space series, for a fresh photo of the car emblems on his garage. He texted me back this joyful expression of useless but necessary garage trinkets, and for it I am eternally thankful. I have a smaller collection of emblems that lives in a few boxes in my home office, but plastering them on a wall doesn’t jive with my minimalist aspirations. But they have come in handy for work at Hagerty. Yes, really.

Emblems from long-gone vehicles are a wonderful thing to own, be it on a garage wall, in tool box, or within a box as a reference material. It might even be the best trinket you can have in your garage. But it’s unfortunate that these are getting harder to collect, as junkyards now have cars with adhesive-backed vinyl letters, not metal or plastic emblems. So perhaps this is where we will leave it with the Hagerty Community, before we ask the question once more:

What’s the most useless but necessary trinket for your garage?

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