Fire Truck Project

[kennebellcobra]

Not a Mustang but thought it was pretty neat. My boss bought this site unseen and was delievered Jan 16 this year and said he wanted it totally restored for the Memorial Day parade if possible. I thought he was nuts...motor was locked up (592 ci flat head 6), truck was some what solid but had sat outside for years so it needed a ton of body work. Ignition system(dual distributors, 2 plugs per cylinder) went out on a test drive last week so we had protronix's over night their positive ground electronic ignition upgrade and got it all running again...drove it around for hours today just to make sure all was good.

This is the original Bellevue truck that my boss made the city sell for 1500 back when he was the mayor....now he probably spent 25,000 to get it back the way it is now.:lol:

It's a 1940 Ahrens Fox...1st fire truck built to go 55mph:lol:

Kenny(Mustangboy) also powder coated a ton of stuff on it:bigthumb

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[adragon72]

Looks great!!! I'm glad to see you got it finished

[evildriver]

Cool truck! That one looks alot simpler than the new ones I work on.

[firestang70]

Ahrens Fox made beautiful fire trucks. I would love to see that up close. I have an obvious soft spot for fire trucks.

[67Terror]

Sweet! I saw somebody driving it the other day

[Timido]

That is very cool!

[kennebellcobra]

Ahrens Fox made beautiful fire trucks. I would love to see that up close. I have an obvious soft spot for fire trucks.

You are welcome to come by the shop anytime and check it out:bigthumb We have had tons of old firemen come in to look at it and told me all kinds of old stories about driving and riding on it....very cool.

I think it will be on channel 12 news tonight at 5:30 too.

[rush88GT]

It is on channel 12

[Jeff88coupe]

Very cool....watching the piece about it on Ch. 12 right now......nice job Shannon.

[kennebellcobra]

Thanks...they did a great little story on it! I might be in trouble for saying I thought Tom was nuts:lol:

That little piece they zoomed in on...said Ahrens Fox in red and silver on the corner...Kenny did that:bigthumb

[67Terror]

Dude your famous lol

are you driving it in the parade?

[kennebellcobra]

Dude your famous lol

are you driving it in the parade?

Lol...Tom is driving it...I took him out and showed him how:lol: He's 75 and no power steering, no sycro's...I hope he makes it!

[67Terror]

I'll be walking with the fire dept, hope i dont get runned over lol

[kennebellcobra]

I'll be walking with the fire dept, hope i dont get runned over lol

Keep one eye on the truck:D

Notice the shift plate pic...3rd and 4th gear are opposite of every stick in the world...couldn't figure out why it felt like suck a turd shifting out of 2nd until we sand blasted all the rust off the plate and relized we were shifting it 2nd to 4th:eek: Good thing when we first got it running we never got it going fast enough to shift it into what we thought was 4th:yup:

[kennebellcobra]

Here ya go Ricky....http://www.local12.com/mediacenter/local.aspx

[KB1]

Outstanding Story!!, Thanks Tom & Shannon for bringing back great memories for all us, Old Fire Trucks seem to make you smile & remember simpler happy times:).:)

[331TwistedWedge]

Here ya go Ricky....http://www.local12.com/mediacenter/local.aspx

that was cool! ... what a nice piece of local history ... truck looks nice :bigthumb

coca cola to unfreeze the block just sounds nuts :lol: we drink that crap :eek:

[mustang8998]

Good job, Shannon!

Turned out great!

[redfirepearlgt]

Reminds me of the Monogram plastic model I had as a kid that had the webber single barrel setup, the side poices on the hood removed, and Drag slicks on the back. That is a beautiful restoration. Any chance the pump and tank were saved and operational?

[kennebellcobra]

Reminds me of the Monogram plastic model I had as a kid that had the webber single barrel setup, the side poices on the hood removed, and Drag slicks on the back. That is a beautiful restoration. Any chance the pump and tank were saved and operational?

Thanks, Chad!

Everything is still intact for the pumper but the tank has some rot and won't hold water:(

[mustangboy]

Wow that was cool to get to see some of my work on tv. Shannon you guys did a great job on it, glad I could contribute a little something to it. Thanks again for the opportunity

[RIXXX93GT]

Awesome job Shannon!

[kennebellcobra]

Thanks guys...it was great to be a part of bringing it back to life!

[jay]

super cool, its not just old cars that deserve to be restored.