TEXAS RIGS

[1961MackC95]

There is a Rosie dealer in LBB, DACO Fire Eqp. @ Avenue Q & Clovis Hwy.  They always have some of the most incredible vehicles on their lot, they recently had one of Plainview TX's WLF Ambassador pumpers up for sale.

 

Lubbock was a white-colored apparatus town for many years, and I kind of miss that (though, if any town ought to adapt red & black, it should be Lubbock, those being the colors of Texas Tech University).  When I first lived down here 25+ years ago, the Macks were still going strong, CF's, MC's, and even a B.  All were white, had full-wide Code 3 lightbars, and the new E-Ones had red, white, & blue stinger lights.

Plainview never had a WLF.

 

I hope that Plainview did not trade in their classic 1972 Mack CF-600.  I remember when two of these were delivered in the spring of 1972 http://www.firepics.net/groupboards/inde...1&p=498933.

 

I was in Plainview last year, and a couple of the lads told me that the Mack was still the best pumping engine that they have.  The article in the newspaper said that they were keeping the Mack but then again, who knows?  They disposed of a 1951 ALF 700 and a 1958 Mack C-85 which were bastions of my youth.

 

I remember the Lubbock Macks when they had only Federal 17 Series beacons and then when red and blue "lollipop" lights were added on each side of the beacon.

 

Lindsay D

Richardson, TX