Hemmings Find of the Day – 1955 Coast pumper truck

Among the three best-known California producers of fire trucks – the first two were Crown and Van Pelt – Coast Apparatus Inc. of Martinez was the smallest, and had the briefest history. So it was pleasant to see this completely intact 1955 Coast triple-combination pumper offered for sale following a partial on-camera career. This is […]

Introducing… Truck Norris!

It probably won’t go viral, but there’re plenty of excellent Truck Norris jokes in derf’s thread about his J10 on the IFSJA.org forums. My favorite so far: Truck Norris doesn’t need oil. It just drives back in time and eats dinosaurs. UPDATE (7.February 2011): Silly me. Truck Norris will go viral if Truck Norris wants […]

A dilly of a dilemma

Here’s the deal. We need your help and imagination right here. Or ultimately, we should say, Dean Highfield is looking for your assistance. Dean lives now in Panama City, Florida, but like the rest of his family, he’s originally from Oil City, Pennsylvania. Dean mailed us this ancient photo that he found amidst his mother’s […]