The news you never want to get, a fire truck landed on your pristine 60's musclecar, that you've had for 34 years since age 16

How does the fire engine "land" on your car?

The road up the hill was very narrow, and the fire truck went to close to the edge on a curve, slid over, rolled, and ended right side up on the 1969 Firebird

Full story at http://www.denverpost.com/ci_12565202 via http://garage1975.blogspot.com.br

A variety of interesting images from Truque tructruk Tumblr.com

All just a smaple of the variety found on http://truquetructruk.tumblr.com/

Forest service fire engine... cool! I don't think I've ever seen one before, or any green fire engine

looks 1930's.... and why it has a cab, and an open seat, I don't even have a guess.

Found on http://truquetructruk.tumblr.com

Indian fire truck

ain't that something?! found on http://mentallydefectiveandborntoolate.tumblr.com

the biggest Jeep I think I've ever seen, a forward control and fire engine in one, a rare vehicle

found on the HAMB

the Fire Chief always got the coolest car, a '47 Buick Roadmaster nose and chassis

image found on the HAMB

the story about it is better found on Hemmings:
This rebodied 1947 Buick Roadmaster is an example of how volunteer firefighters in parts of New York have cooled off for years: They compete against one another in timed contests of basic hose-and-ladder tasks on lots of warm weekends.

The object is, a team of competitors board a customized vehicle that looks sort of like a fire truck. They line up at a starting line against another team and, on signal, race for 475 feet. The rigs halt, they dismount, and hook a hose to a hydrant before hitting a target with the water stream. Or, throw a ladder against a platform and scramble to the top.

 So on one level, it's a car race. Today's hottest "trucks" are often based on tubular steel chassis originally designed for drag racing or paved-oval Modifieds. One team famously used to use a mid-1960s Corvette body turned around backwards, with the fastback rear window serving as a driver's windshield and the engine bay, less hood, as a hose bed.

Where these contests exist, almost all in New York, they're big, big stuff. Millions were first exposed to firemen's jousts during the 1960s when ABC's Wide World of Sports, which had a top producer living on Long Island, discovered them. Their proximity and low production costs made them staple segments on the program, like figure-eight racing and demolition derbies from nearby Islip Speedway. A Web site specializing in the drills, www.nysdrillteams.com, lists well over 100 fire companies with drill teams, about 75 percent from Nassau and Suffolk counties on Long Island.

What we know about this Roadmaster starts with its purchase, evidently as new, by the Runts, drill team of the Flower Hill Hose Company Number 1 in Port Washington, Nassau County, Long Island.

The Roadmaster also lacks a pump, thus its use in laddering contests. It still has a hose bed, oaken panel liners and planks, the latter over steel sheeting. Fire and rescue work requires the most disciplined teamwork. Therefore, firefighter games are a team sport, with a wide, deep rear step on the Buick for the Runts' ladder crew. The Buick powertrain was left almost completely stock, a Dynaflash L-head straight-eight engine, displacing 320 cubic inches and with 144hp and a three-speed manual transmission

the Runts donated the Roadmaster to a smaller fire company in North Creek, New York, a rural area in the Adirondack Mountains that also had a tournament team.

Ron's fire wagon is impossibly rare, a Buick Roadmaster from the 1940s with a history in any kind of motorsport, maybe the first since the one that Lee Petty destroyed at the old Charlotte dirt track in NASCAR's earliest days. Quite the opposite of Petty's, this example is pristine. Devoid of modifications, it might conceivably qualify as the lowest-mileage 1947 Roadmaster extant. The odometer read 17,500 when Ron got it, and it's barely cracked 18,000 miles right now.
http://www.hemmings.com/hcc/stories/2008/10/01/hmn_feature7.html

New York, pre 1930s, from the just recently released New York Municipal Archives

found on http://pixtale.net/2012/06/more-historic-photos-from-the-nyc-municipal-archives/

http://pixtale.net/2012/04/historic-photos-from-the-nyc-municipal-archives/

111 years old, 9300 puonds, and pumping a 1000 gallons a minute... the 1902 American fire engine

1954 Kenworth fire engine of Vista FD

Coolest woodfired pizza around, an old fire engine that can come to events

I found the regular hang out of this pizza truck a couple months ago while walking around: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2013/03/dang-brothers-wood-fired-pizza-uses.html

I finally learned of a model T museum that has been photographed many times but not identified in emails, Near Yuma Arizona is an old gas station / private collection/museum

Steve told me that this was originally a gas station in Holtville Ca, but was bought and moved here

it is North of Yuma, in a small town named Bard. The collection is open for visitors in the cool winter months http://www.dynamitedave.com/places_cloud_museum.html

Fire departments have some great old treasures set aside to preserve for posterity, Narragansett #3 has a cool old pum per!

found on http://georgedennis.blogspot.com/2011/09/narraganset-fire-dept-3_05.html

a variety of good stuff from Go Away Garage

how cool is this old wrecker, they weren't called tow trucks when and where I grew up, they were known as wreckers. One thing I like about this one, the tire covered  front bumper was often used to push a vehicle that couldn't move under it's own power, because a lot of cars then were stick shifts, and if the starter or battery wouldn't work, all you needed was a push start.

above, a Wallis tractor

Above, a Wilkinson motorbike, and the seat! That looks comfortable!

Hard to make out, but the Moroso gold valve covers, and the wheelie bars? I think this was for drag racing

Above, a part of a Norman Rockwell. The best part.

I don't think I've ever seen a woody bus before, but it looks good!

that is the biggest fire gong, or a big train flywheel

 
the racket 4 motors must have made!

incredible kid sized trailer! Too cool!

damn cool garage shelving idea!

Yup, the dog lovers would likely be outraged at the dogs stuck in the trunk, but it's a neat photo anyway

All found on http://goawaygarage.blogspot.com