Monster truck + vintage fire engine = rare cool factor. This must be great at birthday parties!

from Jim and Chester's Garage: http://prova275.tumblr.com/

The Bob McDorman Collection is going to be auctioned at Mecum, Nov 5th and 6th, no reserve

1927 Chevrolet SOHIO Tanker Truck (SOHIO =Standard Oil company of Ohio)

1920 Chevrolet SOHIO horse drawn gas wagon

1927 Chevrolet Wrecker 1 Ton

1929 Chevrolet Fire Truck 1 Ton

For the whole collection gallery, as it has "150 Cars including the World's Most Complete Corvette Collection"

Progress on the 1920's Merryweather fire engine restoration in Peshawar Pakistan

For the way it looked when found see: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/08/when-you-think-about-barn-find-fire.html

1922 Dodge touring in the Washington DC Fire Department

This is a 1922 Dodge Touring Car, DCFD Serial No. 05, assigned to the Superintendent of Machinery. The DCFD Repair Shop is in the background next to Engine Co. 8 quarters. The American LaFrance in one of Engine 8's apparatus bays may be a 1920 750 gpm pumper DCFD Serial No. 125 which was assigned to Engine 8

From Shorpy

When you think about barn find fire trucks, do you ever think they'd be in a 1912 fire station in Pakistan? Two were! Stored since the late 60's

The short person in white is Maureen Lines, http://www.hindukushconservation.com/maureen_lines.html and she is quite possibly the person most to thank for the fire trucks coming into the light for the first time in over 4 decades. She made the right contacts in the Pakistani government to see that the 2 fire trucks were made available to restorers like Romano!

I believe she concieved the idea to have the fire engines added to the National Heritage Trust, and she asked the Highway patrol to bring in heavy moving equipment to persude the fire engines to roll out of their long hibernation

the two are 1919 and 1921 models, one is red the other was painted black http://www.trekearth.com/gallery/Asia/Pakistan/West/North-West_Frontier/Peshawar/photo37422.htm

In the above and below photos you'll notice that this fire truck is painted black, and the other photos are of the red fire truck

If you like these, and ever find yourself in Pakistan, you'l want to take a look at the working one that is in Karachi. For a gallery of these fire engines:
http://picasaweb.google.com/romanokarim/FireEngines#

National City Fire Department's vintage Seagrave fire truck

The SD Fire Dept training area has this cool old firetruck for the new recruits to learn on... good idea

Cool Seagraves firetruck was at the Twisted MC motoexpo

1933 Minerva Firetruck

http://www.brusselspictures.com/autoworld/belgium-cars/

realistic diorama in the Saskatoon (Canada), Western Developement Museum

Setting the scene of the dustbowl and depression era farms... wow

this museum has a lot of surprising finds, a Minneapolis Moline UDLX tractor, this fire engine, a recretion of a frontier city with fully stocked stores, stations, and homes. A must see if you are ever traveling through Canada.

Images via: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jordoncooper/sets/72157613830886211/

the Minneapolis Moline can be seen here: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2008/06/1938-minneapolis-moline-model-udlx.html

Terrific stuff from before the 1930's

1918 and most of those tires have snow chains

1920 Wash DC and a Stutz

1925 Semmes Motor Co

last of the Wash DC fire dept horses, 1925

above, 1926

Yellow Coach 719 1937 Greyhound bus

Way back when... from Shorpy and Pixdaus

U.S railroad mortar at the siege of Petersburg - Virginia 1864

1908 Maxwell Tourabout

1915
Hudson super six racer - Washington DC 1920

1917

1920 Autocar truck

1926. Ford cars parked at Robey Motor Co.

1940's Chev?

1951 Dodge Kingsway