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Owner seeks buyer for 80-year-old quarry dump trucks

Sep, 26 2006


(WILTON, N.Y.) -- They were the big rigs of their day -- three-and-half-ton workhorses that could haul five-ton loads. Now, the owner of a fleet of rusty dump trucks mothballed for nearly 75 years is hoping someone will buy the automotive time capsule and restore them to their former glory. The trucks were used to haul rocks at Joseph "J-J" Fredella's quarry in Glens Falls in the late 1920s and early 1930s. When the Great Depression slowed business, Fredella put four of his trucks on blocks in a building on his property. Other trucks were left outside. The trucks remained at the old quarry until recently, when the entire fleet was moved to an auto crusher's business in nearby Wilton. The trucks will be sold for scrap metal if no one buys the vehicles. Joseph Fredella of Oswego -- great-grandson of the quarry owner -- says he hopes someone will buy some of the antique trucks and restore them. He calls them a "a fascinating piece of history."

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