This one is for old heavy trucks.
This one is for old heavy trucks.
Jumbo. My grandfather drove this when it was new.
This jewel is just a few miles from me....
Price seems high (thankfully), and I have got to get the Vanette finished first......
1954 ford Coe - $5000 (Stone mountain )
It is for sale btw. 
Woody wrote: Jumbo. My grandfather drove this when it was new.
Really? I like that thing.
Woody wrote: Jumbo. My grandfather drove this when it was new.
My home town has a Fire Museum that houses a bunch of old fire engines. They have one with the big chrome dome on the engine. It looks so awesome. The museum was up the street from my parents' house, and they would always take that one out and flog on it on nice days. I would hang out outside and watch them gassing that beast up and down my street. 
Strangely enough, there is an old American LaFrance factory in my present town right up the street from my house.
foxtrapper wrote:Woody wrote: Jumbo. My grandfather drove this when it was new.Really? I *like* that thing.
Everybody likes that thing. It's an Ahrens Fox piston pumper. I believe that they only made two with the closed cab in 1939.
The city brought it out of retirement in 1975 when the BF Goodrich plant was fire bombed. I'm told that it pumped for four straight days and they were refueling it on scene.
Mongo has a thread
You just have to love a COE.
Woody wrote:foxtrapper wrote:Everybody likes that thing. It's an Ahrens Fox piston pumper. I believe that they only made two with the closed cab in 1939. The city brought it out of retirement in 1975 when the BF Goodrich plant was fire bombed. I'm told that it pumped for four straight days and they were refueling it on scene.Woody wrote: Jumbo. My grandfather drove this when it was new.Really? I *like* that thing.
with the long hood, short rear it rather looks like the Pony car of fire engines!
Big trucks make me weak.
In reply to spitfirebill:
Agreed.
Yet another thread designed to make me want things I don't have the time, or in fact any real use for...
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Mongo is a badass.
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