Vintage shots from days gone by!

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Brought the colors back.

 

Is this the (Chop Cut Rebuild) Charger?

 

And a SC/Rambler right behind it...Too cool.

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Don't get me started...I have a folder on "Photobucket" labeled "crappy cars" that has 2152 photos in it...some that would make a grown man cry...or barf

 

Got a link?

 

cool start a new thread

 

Hose 4, South Portland, 1952



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Hose 4 of South Portland Fire Department.

The truck was created from a 1928 Dodge chassis that had been a Cushman's Bakery delivery truck before being damaged by fire.

Fire Department employees rebuilt the motor and chassis and the department's repair shop on Thomas Street added the fire truck body.

In 1942, the truck was equipped with a 500-gallon-per-minute front-end pump as a wartime ancillary.

 

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Car #31 is being towed by a wrecking truck and a Ford model T truck on its way along Route 1 to the future Seashore Trolley Museum site on Log Cabin Road, Kennebunkport.

 

Item 21628 zoom Description

South Portland Fire Department Engine 2 at the time of its delivery in December 1948.

The truck is a 750-gallon-per-minute Mack pumper that was used by the government during World War II and secured through war surplus by the department.

 

omobile accident, New Portland, 1942

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Roland Philbrick, the driver of the 1940 Chevrolet pulp truck, and his son, Huck, were unharmed in this 1942 crash off the wire bridge in New Portland.

 

i have driven rte 9 many times, seen this old studebaker all decked out in xmas lights, it sits near a bugger of a hill, day hill, many times i have seen other truckers stopped 1/2 way up with the driveshafts laying on the ground.

just so happens my name is Lawrence and so is my dads, my dad and i trucked Xmas trees down rte 9.

 

If they would have used LAWS rockets during the st Valentines massaccre.