Progress ... hanging sheetmetal!!
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Fleet Mechanic
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Thanks guys!! I checked my book order list and all you guys are on it already although not for second copies. 
I appreciate the offers to prepay but I won't accept any money until I reach my goal. Thanks for everyone's support.
Bobby here is the link to the card company.
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I appreciate the offers to prepay but I won't accept any money until I reach my goal. Thanks for everyone's support.
Bobby here is the link to the card company.
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Wow! A truly awesome story! I just started reading about this build Friday night and finished just now. Absolutely beautiful truck! I hope you and your kids get many years of enjoyment from it. Please put me down for a book. I look forward to reading it. Tim
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I just posted a separate thread on this. I need some parts for my vintage American Bosch wiper motor. I need the knurled ends where the wiper arms attach and the angled rubber grommets. Thanks for any help!
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I was gonna suggest the help section for the rubber seal. As many antennas Use a similar type of one.
As for the spline ya may have to have one made. Or as I have done is to drill them and put in a roll pin.
As for the spline ya may have to have one made. Or as I have done is to drill them and put in a roll pin.
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Keith, do you have a flyer or something you could attach to an eMail giving some details about the truck and your book? I was thinking that I can probably come up with a contact at the local FD and forward to them. I'd think some of those guys might have interest in the book. That would help; you out and...hopefully if some of them are fire truck collectors like you then I'd get to see more cool trucks! I'd also be happy to put an ad in our local car club newsletter. The newsletter goes out to our club membership and to several other clubs. That could help the cause as well. If you have something you can eMail it to me. If you need my eMail address send me a PM.
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Ilya, you got a big laugh out of me !!
Rob, those are some great idea's. I will come up with a flyer. You gave me another idea. There are other fire buff organizations in Illinois that I should contact like the 511 club and of course "SOCIETY for the PRESERVATION & APPRECIATION of ANTIQUE MOTOR FIRE APPARATUS in AMERICA or SPAAMFAA."Thanks I will email you the flyer when I get it done.
!!Rob, those are some great idea's. I will come up with a flyer. You gave me another idea. There are other fire buff organizations in Illinois that I should contact like the 511 club and of course "SOCIETY for the PRESERVATION & APPRECIATION of ANTIQUE MOTOR FIRE APPARATUS in AMERICA or SPAAMFAA."Thanks I will email you the flyer when I get it done.
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Rich,
No, I am not going to color the headlights. In 1956, they added colored bumper lights and went with the regular headlights so the driver's could see better at night. It was Ron DiRenzo's (original driver) idea to make the change. He went to the Chief of the Shops with his idea. They liked it and put the bumper lights on all their rigs. The colorized pic is wrong. The colored lens went half way across the sealed bead ... I believe the top half.
No, I am not going to color the headlights. In 1956, they added colored bumper lights and went with the regular headlights so the driver's could see better at night. It was Ron DiRenzo's (original driver) idea to make the change. He went to the Chief of the Shops with his idea. They liked it and put the bumper lights on all their rigs. The colorized pic is wrong. The colored lens went half way across the sealed bead ... I believe the top half.
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The dyed lens looks good. Will it be durable? will it hold up to the weather? LOL...what am I thinking, this truck will probably be fortunate enough not to see any major weather anymore.
Another thought for a place to send a flyer (when you get one made) is either the local chapter or the national chapter of the American Truck Historical Society;
http://www.aths.org/
Bobby
Another thought for a place to send a flyer (when you get one made) is either the local chapter or the national chapter of the American Truck Historical Society;
http://www.aths.org/
Bobby
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Isn't there an outfit that buys books like these in bulk? Than donates them
to Libraries across the nation?
Just one for every major library could be a few thousand copy's.
I guess I could ask at the big library in town if I remember.
to Libraries across the nation?
Just one for every major library could be a few thousand copy's.
I guess I could ask at the big library in town if I remember.