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C11

Rikky Dawson is a drainlayer by trade, but he should have been a salesman. He managed to pull off a very slippery line to his wife, which ended up with the purchase of this 1982 Chev C10, and somehow managed to get away with it. The tactics may have been a bit dirty, the product not quite what was promised, and the price — let’s just say it was a bit more than mentioned.

It all started when Rikky found a stripped-down C10 for sale. The truck had been around the scene for a while, with the paperwork showing it had had more owners than anyone could remember. Somewhere along the line it was

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