What would u do with this..1938 Fire truck

Of course I have my own ideas
Check out the pics of what may be coming home soon
Restore....lots to do and missing parts
Flat bed stake body
Car hauler....keep the big wheels
????

 

just made this for the hamb

 

Sell off the Fire Equipment and box and build a car hauler. Bob

 

Fix it up. Drive in parades. Hire clowns or Shriners. Done.

 

That would make a bad ass car hauler.

 

Man, that's a very serious looking spot light. Probably can hit the top of the 50 story building with that baby.

 

lol mind if i borrow that?

 

Cool car hauler please. Great idea to keep wheels. I would leave the monster spotlight too. Do a build thread for whatever you choose. Good luck!

 

If you have any interest in restoring it, check out your local SPAAMFAA chapter. They might be able to give you some info about the vehicle. It doesn't look like there is much left of the fire equipment. Does it even have a pump or is it just a hose bed.

Car hauler would be cool.

 

car hauler

 

Paint it wax it and drive it in a parade.

Make a motor home out of it.

Build a really small hot rod to fit on the top where the hoses used to go.

Geeze its a fire truck.

 

I don't get the hate and RR comments,,it would make a great hauler or a motor home. HRP

 

HRP
I see no mention of welding a rooster comb to the roof or making some sort of fenderless hodless abortion out of it so I have to make the postulation that someone is trying to impress us with there badassedness.

I can think of lots of things that could be done with it but the end of the day it is a bag ol' fire truck. Anything that I would probably consider would have to be with it being a big hauler.

 

Beano,probably because they didn't think of it! HRP

 

Well they don't have to now.

 

... and you're a HAMB NARC...

 

Sell it to someone who would restore it to it's original use and use the cash on your avitar (if thats your truck). It looks to be very restoreable but it would cost a small fortune to modify it into something else. Just my .02

 

I would'nt do anything with it , except post it on the H.A.M.B. & get ideas what everybody else would do with it.
MY$.02

 

This:

 

I'm not a big fan of diesels, but this thing screams for big black smoke. I'd powerwash the heck out of it. Knock all the loose paint and rust off. Strip out the bed to make it actually usable. You might have to take a few leaves out of the springs to make the ride acceptable since it looks like it used to carry pumping equipment.

Strip the FD stuff and sell it to a high end antique/collector shop that specializes in industrial interior design to finance the project. Somebody, somewhere needs a hosegutter to hang on their wall.

Paint it later, but what ever you do, get it on the road and drive it!

 

The spot light is a keeper regardless.......

 

You are absolutely correct my friend. I would love to have a spot like that one. I can just amigine it on my Willys late at night with a 22 in hand and a deer standing in the light.

 

a friend has a 40 he installed a cummins and a flat bed and hauls his fifth wheel trailer all over the country

 

This one was at the Barrington, NH truck show a couple of years ago.
Something like it would be quite nice.

 

And it would be something that one could use.

 

Take the cab and nose and put it on a similar year 1/2 ton truck frame and make a cool truck out of it. Nothing wrong with that sheet metal.

 

Beaner and HRP, the first post of the thread has been re-edited, he was probably mentionning rat rod somewhere, do i have to explain you everything?

 

You need to find a Duramax chassis and...

 

You never need to explain anything to me. My philosophy is do it and let the chips fall where they may.