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Stock split rims have been replaced by six contemporary tubeless wheels, which were mounted with Kelly KMH Armorsteel tires in 2017. An article in Vintage Fire Truck featuring the vehicle can be seen here.Ī walk-around video is provided above. The seller notes rust along the edges of the cab roof. Gold engine-turned Fire Department insignia accent the front and sides. The cab is configured with an enclosed front section and an open rear, and the truck wears a repaint in white over red that was reportedly applied after it ran into a ditch while responding to a call in the 1980s.
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This ALF pumper is offered with service receipts, historical paperwork, magazine articles, additional firefighting equipment, and a clean Florida title in the seller’s name. The seller is a former member of the Florida Antique Bucket Brigade and the Society for the Preservation and Appreciation of Antique Motor Fire Apparatus in America, and had transmission and differential rebuilds, refurbishment the power steering ram and wheel bearings, and installation of an updated starter, alternator, and cooling fan performed in addition to other work. Firefighting equipment includes a working 1,000 gallon-per-minute pump, a deluge gun, lights and horns, an Onan generator, and a collection of ladders and hoses.
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The body wears an older repaint in red and white, and power is from a two-stroke 568ci Detroit Diesel V8 backed by a Spicer five-speed manual transmission. The truck was then used by the Concord High School student fire academy for four years before being returned to the Fire Department, and was subsequently purchased by the seller through a surplus auction in 2014. Anybody got an old Liberty engine sitting around they want to get rid of.This 1973 American LaFrance 1000-Series pumper truck was purchased new by the Concord, North Carolina Fire Department, where it saw active service with Engine Company #3 for 19 years before being placed on reserve duty. It's a challenge and a hell of a lot of fun and pride of accomplishment.
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To me, there's nothing more enjoyable than adapting an unusual vintage engine that I can adapt for marine use. I'll be using a PCM angled marine transmission which will mate to the prop shaft with a 6" double universal joint. The trick part will be fabricating an adapter for the crankshaft to mount a GM flywheel, the LaFrance to BBC marine bell housing and the flywheel itself.all do-able but very time-consuming. I'll also add a raw water pump and charge the batteries with a GM marine 1-wire alternator. I plan to run 12 exhaust pipes skyward and feed her with six Carter YH sidedrafts, force-fed air with a vintage McCulloch supercharger. I'm getting rid of all the heavy iron intake/exhaust manifolds as well as the original flywheel and bell housing.that's about a 200+ lb weight loss. The engine has two main heads and six secondary heads and I sure can't make my own head gaskets! (She s been running rich.) A gasket set is going to cost me $648 but there's not much I can do about it. I have her halfway torn down in order to wire-wheel the crapola off the valves and remove miscellaneous crud here and there. She's an original 17,000 mile engine and clean as a whistle inside. Well, my American-LaFrance V12 J engine has finally arrived. I like to think of myself as colorful, possibly a little eccentric, seldom boring. I know what you're thinking but I can assure you, I'm not crazy. (Photos) The Shepherd should be an interesting project.if I ever get the time to work on it. I built one of these engines in 1990 and stuffed it into a 1923 American-LaFrance speedster that I designed/built from a pumper. She's going to have 12 exhaust pipes pointing skyward and six side draft YH carbs which will be force-fed by a vintage McCulloch supercharger. The resulting engine shouldn't weigh much more than a Chris Craft MCL. I'm going to dump all the original intake/exhaust hardware, the bellhousing and a lot of other crapola that I won't need and that should reduce the weight considerably. Of course, by the time I'm done tinkering with it, the HP should be considerably higher. (I bought the Shepherd for $1,500 cash!) I'm going to reconfigure it to a rear-piloted racer and power it with a 1948 American-LaFrance V12, 527 CID, 215 HP, 24 spark plugs, four points, four coils, etc., etc. Well.this plan ought to drive the purists nuts! I've been looking for a good boat, reasonably priced, that I can play with.