Lisle Auto Tools manufacturing company was started in Clarinda, Iowa in 1903 by C.A. Lisle. The first tool his company manufactured surprisingly wasn’t an automotive tool at all, it was water well drilling equipment powered by a horse! Subsequent products were not automotive related either, remember old ringer washers? And how about the old style manual push mower? Some twenty years after the Lisle Corporation was first started, the tool company made its first automotive product.

The product was an automotive specialty tool for resurfacing Ford Model T valves. Since car engine valves were refaced every 20,000 miles back then, the specialty tool became an instant hit. Lisle’s automotive specialty tool line now is made up of more than 400 tools, most of them made in the USA, right there at the original Clarinda location.

With Lisle’s innovative specialty tools and prices that are amazingly low, Lisle continues to forge ahead developing very useful auto specialty tools for today’s and tomorrow’s automobiles. If you would like to see some of the Lisle automotive specialty tools we offer, remember there’s free shipping at $199 and no sales tax charged outside the state of Florida.