Stewart Rhine Wrote:
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> George W Pearce Wrote:
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> > If you were to take that truck and run it up and
> down a gravel road shortly after a rainfall, then
> keep it in a garage until the next freight run, it
> would make for an even more convincing
> phraud-o-graph!! Farm trucks were seldom that
> clean. Just a suggestion!!
>
> George, That's a good thought.
> I can say that the Model B is far from show
> room... last paint job was about 50 years ago and
> it's full of scrapes on faded paint. It's a 50/50
> truck: looks good at 50 feet going by at 50 miles
> an hour.
>
> Here's the old beater in color. To keep this
> narrow gauge, that's the early warning sign for
> the railway crossing in the back ground.
> [attachment 84295 ModelBatAC822-FB.jpg]
Well as I'm guessing that is a '32 and as the railroad ceased operations in '33 the truck would have only been a year old and would have still been in very nice shape.
Scott