Anyone here into old firetrucks?

[Bruces45]

My wife and I went to the NYS museum yesterday and I snapped some pics of the old water spitters they had there.

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[Ti Carry]

I am not totaly in to them as in, I know everything about them. But I love to check them out among anything else old like that.

That's American History at it's finest.


Ti.

[P95Carry]

Not a hobby interest bruce but I am full of admiration for them all - as Ti said - they do represent much history.

Two or three times a year our local firehall has events and pulls in trucks from adjacent areas - usually including a few real old examples - great to see.

Thx for the great selection of pics - good job.

[NevJohn]

Some nice pix, Bruce. Being an ex-volunteer fireman, I still have interest. By the way, my youngest son is a Capt with Calif Dept of Forestry, and gets to play with all the new ones.

[blacksan]

I just like "Ol Trucks" no matter how the truck is configured. My friend and I recently finished frame off restoration on his 1944 Dodge WC 51 (Weapons Carrier) and I am looking for something else to try. The latest bug to bite is a chopped down Deuce 1/2 conversion. It would be a busted example so; I would not be butchering anything good. I hope to do something along the lines of the example pictured below.

[NevJohn]

Blacksan.... love them Weap's.... had them at all the radar sites I was fortunate to attend; not that I wanted too. Tough as nails. I'd like to find one, for use up at my new property in WA state. Instead of a chainsaw, I could just pull them down !!

[blacksan]

Blacksan.... love them Weap's.... had them at all the radar sites I was fortunate to attend; not that I wanted too. Tough as nails. I'd like to find one, for use up at my new property in WA state. Instead of a chainsaw, I could just pull them down !!

NevJohn, I hear Ya brother!!! I have visons of Super Singles dancing through my head.

BTW I didn't mean to high-jack the thread Bruces45 , but I could spend the remainder of my days turning wrenches in the garage for fun and your thread just got me going.

[exposurecontrol]

Being an ex-firefighter myself I gotta hand it to the guys who drove those older rigs. All the new apparatus is power steering/automatic transmission, and not terribly difficult to drive. We had a couple of older vehicles in our fleet that were non power steering and stick shift, and what a bear they were to drive.

[firefighter4884]

Bruce,

Some might fine pictures you got there :)

Always loved looking at older trucks.

--Jim

[madmike]

My father tells me that he knew a man back in our old home-town in GA that wanted to join the local VFD, but wasn't part of the "good old boy" network. Being in the VFD was both a real service to the community, and something of a social-status thing, as well.

So, he bought his own fire truck.

The good old boys reconsidered their decision and let him in.

At least in this case, you can buy happiness!

mm