Owning a fire truck would be awesome – who among us as a kid wasn’t awestruck at seeing a fire truck in a parade or in action? – but there are a couple hidden expenses with owning and operating one, even one such as this 1962 Ford F750. First, you’ve gotta stock up on candy […]
These rigs don’t show up very often at auctions in any way, so it was very surprising to see this 1983 American La France pumper show up as a lot at the Leake Car Auction in Dallas earlier this month. In fact, we thought at first that it was there to protect the auction site, […]
Inspired by Jim Donnelly’s recent profile of Chrysler turbine pioneer George Huebner in the October 2010 issue of Hemmings Classic Car, Dave Collins thought we’d like to know about a very unique turbine-powered vehicle he personally had some experience with: a 1961 American-LaFrance pumper truck. Dave recalls that it was one of three that American-LaFrance […]