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chevy59
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Out picking today and needed a fix, found this 18 inch vintage Marx "Lazy Day Farms" truck in Shelbyville, Indiana. I stopped in at a cash for gold store looking for some vintage jewerly and found this instead. Old vintage truck I couldn't pass up! Thanks for looking!
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Oh I love it ! Reminds me of my days on farm too ! Great find Chevy !
Thanks Hedgewalker, trukn20, Manikan, and Bellin68 for the loves and comments.
Nice pick chevy59!
Thanks officailfuel!
Thanks Longings, vanskyock24, and egreeley1976.
Very NICE truck, great find!!!!!
Thank you Kerry10456!
Great find Chevy59, the litho is really good.
Love the bright colors. Nice find!!!!
I just found one of these at work in our scrap yard, a little rusty, someone droped of a pile of old toys, I saved them all! my boss collects them.