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Old 07-19-2018, 10:03 PM   #2
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Holmes 220 wrecker boom

Not sure, but sorry to hear you live in a place where such beauty is far from appreciated. Tell them Special-K says that truck is very normal and anyone that doesn't agree is weird

I have a neighbor who is a truck guy. He bought a '71 C/30 wrecker and first thing he did was dismantle the boom and take the senior west coast mirrors of. I guess he's not a true truck guy. He had thoughts of making it a 5th wheel hauler. Years went by and I bought it. First thing I did was reassemble the boom and put west coast mirrors back on. I decided to sell it a while back on Craigslist. A guy came down from Buffalo, NY and bought it. The next week it was on Craigslist for more and he had dismantled the boom advertising it as a great Western Hauler candidate. There are many into trucks these days, but a lot less who actually "get it". A Western Hauler would be cool, but why ruin something that is already just too damn cool to hit a cruise-in, a piece of old car culture that is not so commonly found? The neighbor ended up buying a sweet '68 C/30 wrecker a couple years ago. I wanted to snap some shots of it to show here, but within days of buying it he had dismantled the boom. Hey, it's a free world, do what you want with what's yours, and all that. But if you ask me that guy's an idiot
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