Here's Bob Blank's REO and Larry Dudgeon's patrol car
By Monty Siekerman
What do you do with an old farm truck once you are finished farming with it?
Spruce it up and enter car shows, so says Bob Blank of Pandora. He entered this Diamond REO pickup in the County Line Church of the Brethren car show on Saturday. The pickup has a mere 375,000 miles on the odometer.
A Florida State Trooper in the area? Larry Dudgeon of Bluffton entered his 1991 former patrol car in the car show.
The church's 10th annual car show drew 59 entries this year.
Dudgeon explained that the state trooper cars were designed to be pursuit vehicles - light weight, powerful engines, and could reach speeds up to 160 mph. The church, located south of Bluffton, holds a barbecue dinner along with the auto display each year.

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