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Old 03-12-2008, 08:44 AM
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Originally Posted by Palangi View Post
My dad worked in the model shop at A.C. Spark Plug. He would have been the one who hand painted the prototype and pre-production samples of the drum speedometer on the Olds Toronado. In fact, he would have been the one who hand painted all of the prototype instruments in all of the GM cars of that time period.
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