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OVER AND OUT

Sam Stockman is a self-confessed truck-a-holic, having owned half a dozen pick-ups before this ’40’s GMC COE (Cab Over Engine).

“Around nine months ago, I had just sold on the last of those pick-ups and was on the lookout for something else,” he expounds. “I really like things that are different to the norm, and I also have a thing about cab overs. So it was sort of fate really.

I came across the for sale ad for this COE by chance. It wasn’t being marketed that well and, as the guy needed a quick sale to help fund a house purchase, the price was right.”

“It was only

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