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davedd
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railway express truck

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I have a complete org 1928 AA railway express truck (all painted red on the undercarage, anyone have info or pictures of these trucks?
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Chris Haynes
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davedd
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that's like my truck ,mine has wire wheels and ford script flat bed ,wheels and everything under the truck painted red
Stakebed
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Anyone know why they were painted red?
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Chris Haynes
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Company Trademark. Why are UPS trucks Brown?
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i get that but it seems like it would be a massive pain, time, cost to do that. Is that link with pics exactly what they did? Or someone got a link to a correctly painted one?
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Neil Wilson
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Stakebed wrote:
January 5th, 2018, 2:42 pm
i get that but it seems like it would be a massive pain, time, cost to do that.
My guess is that they ordered the frame painted via the Ford factory.
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davedd
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yes factory painted
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