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business with this van more than 35 years ago. Signsmith is a pun on my surname. It’s a 1949 E494C, for Commercial, 5cwt. I restored it in the mid-80s and sprayed it myself. It was midnight blue and it had been bodged. I did a proper four-year restoration, and made a lot of it myself including the wheel tubs, rear valance

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