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Old 11-23-2022, 04:29 PM   #9
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Re: December 2022 ToTM

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Spent 1.5 years on a frame off plus the interior build out. For those of you 60 or over and grew up in SoCal, no explanation is required. Those that didn't, Helms bakery used panel trucks to deliver all over SoCal from 1930 thru end of the 1960s. All original drive train and body - truck sat idle for 45 years - we resurrected and is now used as a bakery delivery truck. Helms trucks were originally yellow and dark blue; Arizona heat dictated a white repaint.
I Can Still Smell the Sweets When He Opened Drawers Great times in That ERA
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