Progress ... hanging sheetmetal!!
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Thanks Dano. I was wondering what happened to you. Thanks for your nice comments. Yes, I am a very happy man 
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The more I drive the old gal the more fun it gets!! Its been raining so much here in south Florida that she hasn't gotten much use lately.
!!!The more I drive the old gal the more fun it gets!! Its been raining so much here in south Florida that she hasn't gotten much use lately.
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Little update on the truck. I got my spotlight mounts in the mail yesterday and picked up a few moving blankets to use when making our faux salvage covers. I hope to have the spotlights on this weekend!!
I signed in to Yahoo to check my email the other day and found a blog about vehicles. On Yahoo Auto they show case people's personal vehicles on a website called Bold Rides. They ask the owners 7 questions about their vehicles. This is the one I found :
http://www.boldride.com/ride/1974/chevrolet-k5-blazer
I thought they might be interested in featuring my truck so I sent them this email:
Hello,
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My name is Keith Seafield. I am a firefighter in <ST1Miami </ST1and I own a very special vehicle that would make a great feature ride. My grandfather's actual fire truck from <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com
<ST1Chicago</ST1</st1:City>. He used it in the early fifties when he was a member of the Chicago Fire Patrol. I recently completed a 5 year restoration of this wood framed truck built by the Schukraft Truck Body Builder Company of <st1:City w:st="on"><ST1Chicago</ST1</st1:City>. I have the complete history of the truck from when it was built in 1951 to my acquiring it in 2007. Here are the answers to your feature ride questions:<O</O
1. How did you acquire your ride?<O</O
I bought it from the Fire Museum of Greater Chicago for $800. I found out about the truck while researching for a book I was writing. <O</O
2. What drew you to it when you bought it?<O</O
It was used by my grandfather, Captain Michael J. Kinsch, during the early 1950's when he was a member of the Chicago Fire Patrol. <O</O
3. Does it have a name? <O</O
Patrol # 5<O</O
4. What do you feel like when you drive it?<O</O
Overwhelmed! Imagine sitting in your grandfather’s fire truck looking out the same windshield he had looked out some fifty years ago. Pulling the handle hanging off the dashboard to activate the siren as he had done while responding to fires. I imagine him in the seat, his large fingers pointing out the route that he wanted his driver to take to the fire. I can see him putting on his fire coat and helmet while formulating his plan of action. What an experience it is!!<O</O
<O> </O>
In April of this year, my grandfather's original driver, Ron DiRenzo (age 83) drove my family in our cities annual parade!! What are the odds of that! That he and the truck are still around and were re-united. Search Youtube for Chicago Fire Patrol to see video's of the event.<O</O
5. What you would change about your car, if anything?<O</O
Air conditioning and power steering would be nice but not original.<O</O
6. What have you done to make it a bolder ride?<O</O
Just restored it to its original glory! I just finished a 5 year restoration of this wood framed truck built by the Schukraft Truck Body Builder Company of <st1:City w:st="on"><ST1Chicago</ST1</st1:City>.<O</O
7. Dream accessory for it and why?<O</O
Would love to have my grandfather sitting in it again. He passed in 1975.<O</O
Here was their responses:<O</O
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Hi Keith,
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Oh man, this is something special. We love this!
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Jeff will work with you on finishing off the article and let you know when we can get this up. Thanks so much for sharing with us.
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Have a great rest of the day.
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Tim<O</O
Hi Keith, <O</O
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I got word of the firetruck you sent in for us to feature on the blog and it looks absolutely fantastic! We'll have that up and running this weekend.<O</O
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Another question I had was- as a <st1:City w:st="on"><ST1Miami </ST1</st1:City>native as well- we would love to do a video interview of you and your father regarding the truck. If this is something you might be interested in we can coordinate with our video team and get something worked on in the near future.<O</O
<O</O
Let me know what you think, talk to you soon;
I will let everyone know what happens. </O
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I signed in to Yahoo to check my email the other day and found a blog about vehicles. On Yahoo Auto they show case people's personal vehicles on a website called Bold Rides. They ask the owners 7 questions about their vehicles. This is the one I found :
http://www.boldride.com/ride/1974/chevrolet-k5-blazer
I thought they might be interested in featuring my truck so I sent them this email:
Hello,
<O
</OMy name is Keith Seafield. I am a firefighter in <ST1
Miami </ST1and I own a very special vehicle that would make a great feature ride. My grandfather's actual fire truck from <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-comChicago</ST1</st1:City>. He used it in the early fifties when he was a member of the Chicago Fire Patrol. I recently completed a 5 year restoration of this wood framed truck built by the Schukraft Truck Body Builder Company of <st1:City w:st="on"><ST1Chicago</ST1</st1:City>. I have the complete history of the truck from when it was built in 1951 to my acquiring it in 2007. Here are the answers to your feature ride questions:<O</O1. How did you acquire your ride?<O
</OI bought it from the Fire Museum of Greater Chicago for $800. I found out about the truck while researching for a book I was writing. <O
</O2. What drew you to it when you bought it?<O
</OIt was used by my grandfather, Captain Michael J. Kinsch, during the early 1950's when he was a member of the Chicago Fire Patrol. <O
</O3. Does it have a name? <O
</OPatrol # 5<O
</O4. What do you feel like when you drive it?<O
</OOverwhelmed! Imagine sitting in your grandfather’s fire truck looking out the same windshield he had looked out some fifty years ago. Pulling the handle hanging off the dashboard to activate the siren as he had done while responding to fires. I imagine him in the seat, his large fingers pointing out the route that he wanted his driver to take to the fire. I can see him putting on his fire coat and helmet while formulating his plan of action. What an experience it is!!<O
</O<O
> </O>In April of this year, my grandfather's original driver, Ron DiRenzo (age 83) drove my family in our cities annual parade!! What are the odds of that! That he and the truck are still around and were re-united. Search Youtube for Chicago Fire Patrol to see video's of the event.<O
</O5. What you would change about your car, if anything?<O
</OAir conditioning and power steering would be nice but not original.<O
</O6. What have you done to make it a bolder ride?<O
</OJust restored it to its original glory! I just finished a 5 year restoration of this wood framed truck built by the Schukraft Truck Body Builder Company of <st1:City w:st="on"><ST1
Chicago</ST1</st1:City>.<O</O7. Dream accessory for it and why?<O
</OWould love to have my grandfather sitting in it again. He passed in 1975.<O
</OHere was their responses:<O
</O<O
</OHi Keith,
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</O<O
</OOh man, this is something special. We love this!
<O
</O<O
</OJeff will work with you on finishing off the article and let you know when we can get this up. Thanks so much for sharing with us.
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</O<O
</OHave a great rest of the day.
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</OTim<O
</OHi Keith, <O
</O<O
</OI got word of the firetruck you sent in for us to feature on the blog and it looks absolutely fantastic! We'll have that up and running this weekend.<O
</O<O
</OAnother question I had was- as a <st1:City w:st="on"><ST1
Miami </ST1</st1:City>native as well- we would love to do a video interview of you and your father regarding the truck. If this is something you might be interested in we can coordinate with our video team and get something worked on in the near future.<O</O<O
</OLet me know what you think, talk to you soon;
I will let everyone know what happens. </O
</O
</SPAN>
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4. What do you feel like when you drive it?<O</O
Overwhelmed! Imagine sitting in your grandfather’s fire truck looking out the same windshield he had looked out some fifty years ago. Pulling the handle hanging off the dashboard to activate the siren as he had done while responding to fires. I imagine him in the seat, his large fingers pointing out the route that he wanted his driver to take to the fire. I can see him putting on his fire coat and helmet while formulating his plan of action. What an experience it is!!<O</O
<O> </O>
In April of this year, my grandfather's original driver, Ron DiRenzo (age 83) drove my family in our cities annual parade!! What are the odds of that! That he and the truck are still around and were re-united. Search Youtube for Chicago Fire Patrol to see video's of the event.<O</O
</OOverwhelmed! Imagine sitting in your grandfather’s fire truck looking out the same windshield he had looked out some fifty years ago. Pulling the handle hanging off the dashboard to activate the siren as he had done while responding to fires. I imagine him in the seat, his large fingers pointing out the route that he wanted his driver to take to the fire. I can see him putting on his fire coat and helmet while formulating his plan of action. What an experience it is!!<O
</O<O
> </O>In April of this year, my grandfather's original driver, Ron DiRenzo (age 83) drove my family in our cities annual parade!! What are the odds of that! That he and the truck are still around and were re-united. Search Youtube for Chicago Fire Patrol to see video's of the event.<O
</O
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Rich .... I believe your statement. There are just too many coincidences!!
<OThanks Joe!!<O</O
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Dennis, I will let you and everyone else know how this turns out. There are plenty of great trucks owned by FTE members that could be show cased. Maybe we can start of run of awesome Ford trucks… they are always looking for stories!!<O</O<O</O
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Thanks Joe!!<O</O<O
</ODennis, I will let you and everyone else know how this turns out. There are plenty of great trucks owned by FTE members that could be show cased. Maybe we can start of run of awesome Ford trucks… they are always looking for stories!!<O
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That is really cool Keith.
Once again, I'm hanging on the edge of my seat waiting for a video clip.....LOL
I'm glad you and the truck are getting some recognition
Bobby
Once again, I'm hanging on the edge of my seat waiting for a video clip.....LOL
I'm glad you and the truck are getting some recognition
Bobby
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Thanks Bobby. No contact from the people yet. I hope they can do it this week because my Mom has her surgery on Monday so I won't have free time.
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I received this email today: Hi Keith,
We recently got in touch with our video guy and he said he would love to do an interview regarding the firetruck. We're going to shoot for Saturday, June 29th if you're available that day. Or we can do earlier in that week as I'll be out of town the following week.
Let me know if this works for you and we can go from there, thanks!
I told him the 29th would be fine as long as my Mom's surgery on the 24th has no complications.
We recently got in touch with our video guy and he said he would love to do an interview regarding the firetruck. We're going to shoot for Saturday, June 29th if you're available that day. Or we can do earlier in that week as I'll be out of town the following week.
Let me know if this works for you and we can go from there, thanks!
I told him the 29th would be fine as long as my Mom's surgery on the 24th has no complications.
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Thanks Tony!!
I am real curious too as to what the interview will entail. The man responded to my email a little while ago. It turns out he lives 5 minutes away from where I store the truck.
I am real curious too as to what the interview will entail. The man responded to my email a little while ago. It turns out he lives 5 minutes away from where I store the truck.
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Yes It just keeps getting better and better Keith. I wait in anticipation for the next episode after this one. And like this it will be something never thought up in our wildest dreams. I can only hope it is something like a movie or documentary about your grandfather, the truck and the fire patrol. Hello, History Channel, Are you listening? What an awesome piece of Chicago History you have built and put together. I for one am very impressed.
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I was getting worried that this thread would fade out since you are pretty much done. But now we are all pleasantly surprised and still hanging on every post. Can't wait to hear about the interview.
Yep, History Channel. An hour show on your truck would be way better than 99% of the stuff on TV now.
Yep, History Channel. An hour show on your truck would be way better than 99% of the stuff on TV now.
