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    WORKHORSE WONDER

    Aug 13, 2020 4 minutes

    IF YOU had spotted the photos of this extremely tidy F86 Volvo and thought ‘Wow, I had better have a read about this incredibly cool restoration project’ then I’m afraid you are out of luck, it’s not a restoration project.

    If you are looking for a technicality and think instead I’m going to call it a rebuild story and impress you with my knowledge of the difference between the two, then you are also out of luck.

    The reason being, in order for it to be either a restoration or a rebuild story you need a truck that has been worn down enough to either be restored or rebuilt. This

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