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40 | Overdrive | March 2017 Custom Rigs W hite Motor Co. sent only 38 trucks to California from the company's Cleveland factory in 1921, says Bob Burg, the new owner of what he believes to be one of those historic vehicles. Burg recently purchased the five-ton truck from the previous owner's widow in Yucaipa, Calif., and restored it in his garage in December and January. While doing so, he found a manufacture number on its frame. Using White's online truck registry, he traced the truck's assembly to October 1921. "When I bought it, I gave it a slight cosmetic restoration, but mechanically, it was in pretty good shape," Burg said. "I think [the previous owner] cared for it until he passed seven years ago, and it had just been sitting since then, so it had seven-year-old fuel and other things that needed work." The truck's previous owner 96-year-old White bounces back Bob Burg bought this 1921 White 5-ton truck last year, and just about everything on it is original. Great American Chrome_OVD1114_PG.indd 1 10/13/14 2:12 PM By Matt Cole Photos by Bob Burg

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