I raised the question of whether there might be cut checkered 99C's in 284 out there with Rick. But when I started researching postmils for the book, the earliest 99C I could locate is very late 1964, and the cut checkering seems to have stopped in mid-1964. So it's not impossible for a cut checkered one to show up, but be skeptical... It'd almost have to be an early prototype.
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