Credits

Registry members have worked out the 356 tool kits piece by piece for fifty years.

Eric Cherneff

Eric Cherneff spent two decades documenting the 356 tool kits on his website, 356tools.com, and gave the Registry the use of his research and his photograph library. About half the photographs on these pages are his, and his findings are cited throughout under his name. He also wrote two articles on the kits for the Registry magazine.

The project

Joe Owen led the project. He oversaw the content, decided how to present evidence that is thin or in conflict, and made the one-on-one contacts that brought in Jerry Manna, Pete Bartelli and Benjamin Abraham. His own 1963 kit is on the 1963 page.

Michael Branning built the pages. He set up the Registry’s magazine archive, forum and factory manuals as a research library for Claude, an AI assistant, and wrote the standards it works to for research, writing, design and checking.

Contributors and reviewers

• Jerry Manna supplied dating that no published source gives, including the Prym snap sequence, the change in the bag’s pocket count during 1955 and the 1956 tire gauge. The paint thinner method on the bag cleaning page is his.
• Pete Bartelli reviewed the pages and contributed more than 40 photographs, including most of the Carrera kits shown. Jim Perrin thanked him in his 2001 article on the B kits.
• Benjamin Abraham documented bag cleaning step by step on 356Talk, in 34 posts and 108 photographs. The bag cleaning page is built on that work.
• Jim Wayman reviewed the pages.
• Rick Albro supplied the reading of the Peddinghaus hammer decal and a photograph of it.

The published record

The pages rest on Jim Perrin’s eight Registry magazine articles on the kits, A.C. Roda’s article on the B kits and Eric Cherneff’s two magazine articles, along with the factory parts catalogs and driver’s manuals. Each page names its sources.

Photographs

Eric Cherneff, Pete Bartelli, Benjamin Abraham, Jim Perrin, Joe Owen, Richard Miller, A.C. Roda, The Schiemer Archive, Jon Geil, Archive Marinello, Don Ahearn and Rick Albro. Each photograph carries its own credit.

Something missing?

If we have left someone out or credited something wrongly, please tell us.