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Started to finish putting the heater control assembly back together that I painted and cleaned up a few days ago. I was at the point after the new arms were installed, to finish I still needed the knobs installed. The kit came with a set of black plastic knobs and I was thinking I would rather put the old ones back on that are a resin type knob with a chrome finish. I had two sitting on the table and I thought I remembered another one being in the box of items I cleaned out of the glove box.

As I was looking through the box I grabbed an envelope and the plastic casing that held the actual manual and protecto plate booklet for maintenance. I figured I would look through the stuff to see what else I could learn about this trucks story. What I found out is that the owner bought the truck in Clovis California on July 11th 1968 at Hallowell Chevrolet. I also found out that the owner was born in 1921. There were several other papers that helped understand who they were and just a little bit more of the trucks back story.

One thing that surprised me was how the vin number was punched out with little holes on the Protecto plate booklet. I had other trucks that have the booklet but do not remember seeing that. Now I will need to pull others out of the cabinet and check them out.