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Jul 22, 2025 | 12:09 PM

bobj49f2

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Looks like a very interesting auction:

https://www.hmauction.com/auctions/6...RbsU6lS0yqZ6GA

Jul 22, 2025 | 12:43 PM

Brian1950F4

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Good thing that is a distance away. All sorts of stuff I "need".

Jul 22, 2025 | 12:51 PM

bobj49f2

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Good thing that is a distance away. All sorts of stuff I "need".

About five hours from me. I'd just like to go to look everything over and watch the bidding go wild.

Jul 22, 2025 | 02:26 PM

bigwin56f100

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"Lot 20" that's really cool

Jul 22, 2025 | 05:46 PM

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This is interesting. 1953 F7 Big Job fire truck, except it looks a lot like a 52. The Seagrave build tag says 5-11-53. Seems awfully late in the year to be building on a 52 truck chassis.

Jul 22, 2025 | 05:59 PM

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In the past, fire truck and ambulance production dates where sometimes the date of the transformation, not the chassis. It depended on the manufacturer. The NTSB stopped this practice because of date-based safety features.

Notice that is the Seagrave tag, not Ford.

Jul 23, 2025 | 10:45 PM

mOROTBREATH

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I hope none of that is scrapped. Dude spent a lifetime collecting lots of cool things and now it gets scattered and forgotten with time in someone else's yard.