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Urban Legend A’s

AFTER A RECENT DISCUSSION ON THE HEMMINGS DAILY ABOUT OLD CARS THAT went down with shipwrecks, Bradley Laing asked us if we’d heard the urban legend about a boxcar Model A’s abandoned in the desert somewhere.

“A book about urban legends claimed that a

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