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"OPERTUNITY IS MISSED BY MOST PEOPLE BECAUSE IT IS DRESSED IN OVERALLS AND LOOKS LIKE WORK"  Thomas Edison

 “Life’s journey is not to arrive at the grave safely, in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting ‘Holy shit, what a ride!’

P.T.CHESHIRE

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It is called pot metal and it is a zinc based material which has low cost and is easy to cast into all sorts of things.  I have had dogs re chromed but the chrome shop sometimes rejects items if there are too many pits or zits.  It would just be too costly to repair them at $75-100 per hour.  Usually the older ones chrome well because the pot metal had fewer impurities.

If you want a perfect short eared dog, just go buy one, it will be less money than re chroming.  The long eared dogs are pre 1979 or so when there was a re design.  The patent number was changed on the dog's chest at that point to 1,387,477.

The dog base with the side holes is off an F or CF where grab handles mounted.

The long eared gold tone dogs would have been off Maxidyne equipped trucks.  Short eared gold tone indicate a pure bred truck with Mack engine, trans and rears.

There are a LOT of trucking memories on the table.

Jim

It doesn't cost anything to pay attention.

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Hey Rustydog, I just bought a safe that hasn't been opened in a long time, maybe there will be a stack of dead presidents in there! I'm not looking to go factory fresh on these dogs, just clean them up and make them look presentable. 

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