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Crown Firecoaches - marco17 - 01-03-2010
F-17124
1974 Pumper
Sold To: LACoFD
Current: Retired - Part of the LACoFD Fire Museum
Photo Credit: Marc Johnson
Crown Firecoaches - marco17 - 01-03-2010
One of the 74-77 group of LACoFD pumpers
Current: Bought by scrap company and presumed sold to collector or scrapped.
Crown Firecoaches - J. Dexter - 01-03-2010
Crown Firecoaches - marco17 - 01-03-2010
Crown Firecoaches - marco17 - 01-04-2010
I will have to continue this later due to my laptop experienced a catostrophic crash last night while posting photos. While I am waiting for Dell to fix it, hopefully a couple of you will be able to add a few photos from your collections. I'll leave you with one of the 74-77 set of LACoFD pumpers that happened to be in a folder I have at work.
Crown Firecoaches - Guest - 01-04-2010
[quote name='marco17' date='04 January 2010 - 03:18 PM' timestamp='1262635108' post='356328']
I will have to continue this later due to my laptop experienced a catostrophic crash last night while posting photos. While I am waiting for Dell to fix it, hopefully a couple of you will be able to add a few photos from your collections. I'll leave you with one of the 74-77 set of LACoFD pumpers that happened to be in a folder I have at work.
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show me that 72 or 74 Ward behind the Crown...
Crown Firecoaches - marco17 - 01-04-2010
[quote name='Fireman5230' date='04 January 2010 - 03:50 PM' timestamp='1262637040' post='356333']
show me that 72 or 74 Ward behind the Crown...
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Not the same one, but a couple that this dealer had. They purchased a number of old Wards and Crowns at auction a couple years back... Enjoy....
Crown Firecoaches - marco17 - 01-04-2010
....one more found at work...
F-1779
1977 Crown
Sold To: Los Altos, CA
Current: Available for sale David Cook Trucks, Florien, LA
Crown Firecoaches - Guest - 01-04-2010
LA County, Ca
1956 Crown
1250 Gpm
Steve Meiszala photo
Crown Firecoaches - Guest - 01-04-2010
[quote name='The Commish' date='04 January 2010 - 07:08 PM' timestamp='1262652498' post='356387']
LA County, Ca
1956 Crown
1250 Gpm
Steve Meiszala photo
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1955 Crown 1250/500, Crown #F-1046, LA Co #49008, originally assigned to Engine 82, then Engine 43 before becoming Reserve 507.
Crown Firecoaches - marco17 - 01-05-2010
F-1843
50ft Telesqurt
Sold To: South Pasadena, CA
Current: Scrapped
Photo Credit: Dave Johnson
Note: Was donated to the Rio Hondo Fire Academy. Was originally white over dark red, but repainted at some point by the students to black over dark red. Once they finished using the truck, the cab was cut up for some use, presumably by another collector looking to fix a damaged wide body or some other application.
Crown Firecoaches - marco17 - 01-05-2010
F-1459
1967
Sold To: Carson City, NV
Current: Rusting away at a used truck dealer in Florien, La
Crown Firecoaches - marco17 - 01-05-2010
Unknown Crown at used truck dealer, Florien, LA
Crown Firecoaches - marco17 - 01-05-2010
ex-LAFD pumper at used truck dealer, Florien, La
Crown Firecoaches - marco17 - 01-05-2010
F-1679
1972 100ft Aerial Ladder
Sold To: Chula Vista, CA
Current: Used truck dealer in Florien, La
Crown Firecoaches - marco17 - 01-05-2010
F-1797
1977 Pumper
Sold To: Carson City, NV
Current: Collector owned
Photo Credit: Chris Arnold/Devin Hull
Crown Firecoaches - Aaronw - 01-05-2010
Nice to see a Crown thread, its been awhile. I have a few I can add tonight, mostly built on Ford's though, not many fire coaches.
As far as longevity goes, several of the school districts around me Fresno, Madera and Mariposa still run school bus fleets almost exclusively made up of crowns. Since the buisness closed up in the late 80s all of these have to be a minimum of 20 years old.
Crown Firecoaches - Aaronw - 01-05-2010
I don't have a lot of info on most of these
Gustine FD (Central California)
I believe this is still owned by the Gustine FD
Photo by Aaron Woods
Crown Firecoaches - Aaronw - 01-05-2010
1966 Crown
Ex Felton FD (California)
Now privately owned
Photo by Aaron Woods
Crown Firecoaches - Aaronw - 01-05-2010
Ford / Crown snorkel
Avalon FD (Catalina Island, CA)
Now privately owned and used to promote a firefighter themed BBQ in Big Bear, CA
Photo by Aaron Woods