GA_Dave

Very nice! All American LaFrance 700 Series rigs except the last one, an American LaFrance JO 100' ladder. They were built before the 700's.

The "Airport Fire truck" in the pictures above is an excellent representation of a late 1940's American LaFrance 700 Series that served Hancock Field in Syracuse, NY.

Looking good!

I have several family ties to WWII, although none to Pearl Harbor itself. My Dad was too young to enlist at the beginning, but later served with the 1st Infantry Division in Europe. His older brother served on a crew manning a 16-inch gun on the USS New Jersey. Dad's older sister was married to a guy who drove a deuce-and-a-half all over Europe. Mom lost her older brother, a belly gunner on a B-24 that went down in Italy. Her sister married a guy who stormed the beaches at Normandy. I was raised to honor them and the thousands upon thousands that served with them. It is a longstanding tradition that I always watch the movie "Tora! Tora! Tora!" every year on December 7th.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Years ago, I responded to a wreck on the Interstate where a Nissan pickup had run over a retread that had just come off a semi. It got wrapped up in his right front wheel, forcing him into a hard left turn at 65 MPH. His Nissan rolled three or four times, totally destroying it, but he was basically uninjured. He was sitting on a nearby guardrail when we arrived on scene, crying. It was his first new vehicle and he had just bought it that morning. The option/price sticker was stuck to the shattered glass that had been the window!

The term "shell shock" comes to mind.

To all who have served, Thank you!

I would have done that job for FREE!

I grew up near Buffalo, NY. Haven't been cold since I moved to Atlanta in 1985. If you added up all the snow we have had here since 1985, it wouldn't make a decent storm back home! I don't even own a snow shovel. The last boots I had were turned back in at the Fire Department when I retired. We ran the furnace a couple weeks ago to burn off all the dust in the system, on a day that we could open the windows and let the smell out. It's an annual event.

How many? I'm currently on #42 and #44 right now. A few were project vehicles, but most were daily drivers.

Is that a hole in the fender or a hole in the photo?

The quad headlights came out in 1958 and that model was produced into 1970.

I see no need. The wife and I vote around 10 AM on voting day every time, It takes us ten minutes, never more than one or two others in front of us. I expect nothing different this time.

You beat me to it. I grew up with one in my backyard. If I had a nickel for every one of those things I picked up as a kid, I'd be a rich man!