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 ' /> In that condition maybe 450.00 dollars and thats with the tub!
It is from Indiana! somewhere in this unorganized mess is a slide of it
1970 PC-1-1931 Liberty Twp., Indiana 750/750 American La France Pioneer Mike
Hey Bob, how about an American LaFrance "Pioneer" after it has run thru the PhotoShop during a boring night on TV. Doesn't look so bad now. FLJack.
[quote name='FDNYTRUCKS.com' post='82540' date='Mar 2 2007, 21:52 ']It is from Indiana! somewhere in this unorganized mess is a slide of it
1970 PC-1-1931 Liberty Twp., Indiana 750/750 American La France Pioneer Mike[/quote] Hey can anyone out there possibly tell me where Liberty Twp may be in IN? It's not someplace I've been yet(I think). I could spend days looking through my DeLorme atlas page by page!
Unfortunately, thats where we lose alot of these great rigs. People think that they are worth their weight in gold and due to high prices, they never get sold and make their way to rust heaven. I dealt with a guy that owned a large lot of older Maxims, Wards and an Oren or two. These vehicles were sitting outside in a junkyard and all were in tough shape. Still restoreable if you wanted to, but a tough sell all around. The longer I dealt with the guy just trying to buy a parts truck, the higher the prices went and the worse the rot got. Maybe someone with some sentimental value to this ALF would pay $4500 to take her back, but I wouldn't. Just my $0.02.
[quote name='Howie' post='82670' date='Mar 3 2007, 10:34 ']Unfortunately, thats where we lose alot of these great rigs. People think that they are worth their weight in gold and due to high prices, they never get sold and make their way to rust heaven. I dealt with a guy that owned a large lot of older Maxims, Wards and an Oren or two. These vehicles were sitting outside in a junkyard and all were in tough shape. Still restoreable if you wanted to, but a tough sell all around. The longer I dealt with the guy just trying to buy a parts truck, the higher the prices went and the worse the rot got. Maybe someone with some sentimental value to this ALF would pay $4500 to take her back, but I wouldn't. Just my $0.02.[/quote]
-The high price of scrap metal, with an ever increasing demand by foreign countries (especially China) is NOT helping our cause at all right now. I occasionally run my father-in-law's rollback for him, and part of my duties includes towing totalled wrecks in his lot to a scrapyard. "Mixed" scrap (not seperated- tires and seats still on or in the car, not stripped of wiring, different metals not separated) is getting about 9 bucks per 100 pounds right now. I towed a 4-door Ford Taurus on the bed, and a 4-door Nissan Sentra on the bar to the yard last week- and brought my father in law a check for just over 450 bucks.............
[quote name='fsw1970' post='82620' date='Mar 2 2007, 23:37 ']Hey can anyone out there possibly tell me where Liberty Twp may be in IN? It's not someplace I've been yet(I think). I could spend days looking through my DeLorme atlas page by page![/quote]
White county is where Liberty twp is if I remember correctly. Closest town is Bluffton, south of Ft. Wayne.
[quote name='FLJack' post='82603' date='Mar 2 2007, 23:22 ']Hey Bob, how about an American LaFrance "Pioneer" after it has run thru the PhotoShop during a boring night on TV. Doesn't look so bad now. FLJack.[/quote]
Good job Jack! I'd left the bathtub there for the effect though.
[quote name='FDNYTRUCKS.com' post='82540' date='Mar 2 2007, 20:52 ']It is from Indiana! somewhere in this unorganized mess is a slide of it
1970 PC-1-1931 Liberty Twp., Indiana 750/750 American La France Pioneer Mike[/quote] Thanks for the info Mike. I knew I could count on somebody to know! I'll pass it on to the Junkman.
This is a Garry Kadzielawski shot of the rig. The slide is dated Aug. 1983.
Mike 
[quote name='fsw1970' post='82620' date='Mar 2 2007, 23:37 ']Hey can anyone out there possibly tell me where Liberty Twp may be in IN? It's not someplace I've been yet(I think). I could spend days looking through my DeLorme atlas page by page![/quote]
Maybe you can spend days browsing on the computer: there are eighteen Liberty Townships in Indiana: [url="http://www.ingenweb.org/citytown/l.htm"]http://www.ingenweb.org/citytown/l.htm[/url]
Kevin Byrne
[quote name='dcfireman' post='83492' date='Mar 5 2007, 17:42 ']Maybe you can spend days browsing on the computer: there are eighteen Liberty Townships in Indiana: [url="http://www.ingenweb.org/citytown/l.htm"]http://www.ingenweb.org/citytown/l.htm[/url][/quote]
I'm thinking someone didn't know what they were doing when they put that list together!!! Here's a map for my fellow Hoosier. [url="http://www.stats.indiana.edu/maptools/maps/boundary/townships_2000/white_township.gif"]http://www.stats.indiana.edu/maptools/maps...te_township.gif[/url]
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 ' /> A ex-DCFD Hahn with the indignity of a Cobalt boat on top! 10/98- Reich's Ford Rd. in Frederick, MD.(No, its not there anymore...Warren Jenkins photo. <img src='http://www.firepics.net/groupboards/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/thumbsup.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='  ' /> A tip of the ol' leather helmet to 68Mack (Chris Oliphant) for his efforts to show me how to do this!!!
The hills of Tennessee can hide many classics of days gone by. Here is Oakdale, TN. Oren/Ford pumper. Possibly their original? No plate found for date/info. Oakdale is near Harriman along the C.N.O.&T.P. Div. of Norfolk Southern Rwy. (If I can't find trains, I'll find old fire apparatus.)
I'm not sure if this ever saw service in Oakdale. It was previously lettered for "Blair" but was buffed out. She starting to rust, but Old Glory is watching over her. Darley on a Ford chassis.
Unknown year ALF700 series, ex- Chapel Hill,N.C., near Hagerstown, MD.
Warren Jenkins photo 2004. 
[quote name='Dr. Stinebaugh' post='83980' date='Mar 6 2007, 20:20 ']Unknown year ALF700 series, ex- Chapel Hill,N.C., near Hagerstown, MD.
Warren Jenkins photo 2004.[/quote] 1953 ALF Model 775-PJO Registered Number: L-4752
Bob
Retired and still a tax payer.
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' /> Thanks Bob, for the info on the Alf 700!The following pics illustrate the sad fate of some of DCFD's 1960's and 70's Ford wagons and pumpers at the infamous Brandywine junk yards in Prince Georges County,Md.From the Warren Jenkins collection, all pics by John Floyd, sometime during the winter of 92-93. Here are a flock of cabs and crew boxes from Ford C-series and cabs from Ford F-850 series rigs, after being separated from the chassis.
Here are the bodies and chassis, sans cabs (look naked ,don't they?).
J. Floyd pic,W. Jenkins collection.
Ford C cab and crew box.
J.Floyd pic, W. Jenkins collection. Enjoy!? <img src='http://www.firepics.net/groupboards/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/popcorn.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='  ' />
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