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I'm going into this blind without a picture.

The farmers who survived the Depression and went through the war years struggling with make-do equipment, were buoyed by promises of abundant government surplus after the war. If any truck was suitable size to fit the sheds, bridges, fords and roadways, AND was reliable, chances are good it was worked until it expired. On the farms, machinery gets parked when it can't be repaired anymore. Then it sits around until two more generations of farmers and their set-aside equipment fill the edges of the farmyards. Only reluctantly do the old-timers sell off their old machinery. It might still have something to contribute to keeping something else running, and the sellers don't like being taken advantage of.