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    FenderBender and ABRN Editor-in-Chief Jay Sicht took a photo of this 1905 Cadillac Model A Runabout during a visit to The Vault at Los Angeles' Petersen Automotive Museum in Dec. 2023.
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    Gary Ledoux
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