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Comment by Michael Thies on February 7, 2011 at 1:49pm
BTW - Someone brought the new LFA to Caffeine & Octane last Sunday!  It was gorgeous!
Comment by Michael Thies on February 7, 2011 at 1:47pm
$350K!!! Incredible. What a loss!  He could have bought the new Lexus LFA for just about $375K! http://www.lexus.com/LFA/ You are right. Some folks have just too much money. :-)
Comment by Mike Nieto on February 7, 2011 at 12:52pm
I was talking to the guy who owned this milk truck and he told me had $350,000 into it.  He was hoping to come close to breaking even.  It sold for $100,000, a loss of $250,000 !!!  I think some people have too much money.  But a great buy for the fella who bought it.
Comment by Michael Thies on February 7, 2011 at 5:40am

I remember these when I was a boy.  The company is our area was a farmers coop named Dairylea. We sold milk to them, too.  They would have done good to keep their old trucks and sold them as antiques ;-)   Great photos, my firend. Keep'em coming!!

Mike

Incindently, they are still in operation http://www.dairylea.com/  I have a friend that is just retiring as a high level VP


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