Cameron welcome to the forum, send us pictures of your machine. Heidrick farms in Woodland had a harvester just like you describe.

looked up that La Quinta on google street view and it is interesting how they remodeled that space. 

 

Ok, I have some corrections after talking with my dad. There were 3 of these built by Somebody Lawrence in Idaho. He kept one for himself and sold the other two. They were patterned after a C B Hay, but maybe slightly different? He built them with an open operator station. My dad built the cab on ours. I will try to get some pictures. Might take a few weeks.

I grew up in Anaheim not to far from
Segerstrom’s . I have known Oscar for many years . He told me this is the only job he has ever had . Several years ago Glen Ghillotti had called said he was coming down to meetwith Don Hunter .I had called Oscar to see if we could come by . Glenn was pretty impressed with there collection of old Cats and farm
equipment to say the least . Pretty cool
to see that 40 acre piece farm land along the 405 freeway these days