[quote name='GA_Dave' post='96182' date='Apr 9 2007, 19:00 ']85-08 is x-Kenmore, NY. It was sold to a collector named "Westbrook" years ago and he lived in the Baltimore area. It can be seen earlier in this thread lettered with his name. This rig was seen several times in the Firehouse Expo parades. According to the folks from Kenmore, it carried only 300 gallons of water. I wonder how it ended up in Texas?[/quote]
I first saw this rig in the city yard in Bells, Texas on my way over to Sherman, Texas. It was parked against a fence so I came back to shoot it a couple weeks later. On that trip, I drove by and no one was at home at the VFD, so I went on the Sherman again. When I came back it was gone. I saw some guys standing across the road so I pulled over and asked them where the truck had gone. One of the men said it went back to Denison. The VFD in Bells was looking to purchase it, and the guy who owned it came back and got it. (At that point, I noticed the person I was talking to had a Bells VFD jacket on and talked him into puilling the 1973 HAHN out for photos....) So again I made a trip - this time to Denison where I shot the rig outside a military surplus store. The owner was away, but his wife gave the key to the gate and I went in and shot it.
The rig did have a Glen Burnie, MD property ID Sticker on it - maybe it worked for them a while??
From what I hear, this owner is an eccentric. A few months ago he had a helicopter parked in the same place the fire truck was. They say he went out and started the helicopter up and tried to fly it - crashed it about 50 yards away in the middle of one of Denison's busiest streets.... See the story at
[url="http://herald-democrat.com/articles/2005/05/31/local_news/iq_1852127.txt"]http://herald-democrat.com/articles/2005/0.../iq_1852127.txt[/url]
I first saw this rig in the city yard in Bells, Texas on my way over to Sherman, Texas. It was parked against a fence so I came back to shoot it a couple weeks later. On that trip, I drove by and no one was at home at the VFD, so I went on the Sherman again. When I came back it was gone. I saw some guys standing across the road so I pulled over and asked them where the truck had gone. One of the men said it went back to Denison. The VFD in Bells was looking to purchase it, and the guy who owned it came back and got it. (At that point, I noticed the person I was talking to had a Bells VFD jacket on and talked him into puilling the 1973 HAHN out for photos....) So again I made a trip - this time to Denison where I shot the rig outside a military surplus store. The owner was away, but his wife gave the key to the gate and I went in and shot it.
The rig did have a Glen Burnie, MD property ID Sticker on it - maybe it worked for them a while??
From what I hear, this owner is an eccentric. A few months ago he had a helicopter parked in the same place the fire truck was. They say he went out and started the helicopter up and tried to fly it - crashed it about 50 yards away in the middle of one of Denison's busiest streets.... See the story at
[url="http://herald-democrat.com/articles/2005/05/31/local_news/iq_1852127.txt"]http://herald-democrat.com/articles/2005/0.../iq_1852127.txt[/url]
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