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    What lies beneath

    Jul 29, 2022 5 minutes
    Words: Mike Pye
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    Matt Richardson
    I’m more the restore something type, he’s the one that likes to customise things

    Speaking with Nigel Crossley, the owner of this ’55 Chevy 3100 pick-up, for this feature, you get the impression he’s one of those upbeat, glass half full kind of people. He was off work at the time with a heavy cold, but he couldn’t have been more helpful, and the enthusiasm for his truck was evident in his voice from the very start.

    Even when he recounted how, in around 2013, he’d sent $3,000 to a guy in California he had some dealings with through work to buy a pick-up for him, only for the bloke to “promptly bugger off with it,” never to be seen or heard of again, his demeanour didn’t change.

    “You live and learn, don’t you? I just thought I can’t do that again, so I bought this one from a).

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