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Son’s Surprise Chevy

If Jim Hoinsky had been serious about the Chevy pickup he was looking at on the internet, he could have ended up with two of them.

“My father died when I was seven years old,” said Hoinsky, whose 1950 Chevy 3600 is shown here. “He had a truck like this and I remember sitting on his lap and this brings back the memories of it … I was sitting at the computer in the wintertime one evening and my son was home. I had a truck like this from California on the screen and my son said, ‘What are you doing with that?’

“Joking around, I said,

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