Crown Firecoaches

[marco17]

All right... so, we had this topic before, but it didn't have enough activity and was locked out. Many fire apparatus aficionados know about Crowns, many don't and only know them as the first engine in Emergency. As a Crown owner, I hold these trucks near and dear. Crown as a West Coast manufacture, based in Los Angeles, and later Chino, CA. There were less than 900 Crowns built, with only 68 wide bodies built. The three buyers with the largest purchases over the years were LA City with 149, LA County with 131 [they acquired additional Crowns over the years as they took over fire service for other communities that had purchased Crowns as part of their fleets] and Orange County with 42. The last Crown was actually badged a Van Pelt [but changed to Crown badging by the firefighters] and was sold to Santa Monica, CA. And, with that, I will restart the thread with my favorite Crown of all time.



F-1856, 1980 Crown Wide Body 75ft Telesqurt

Sold To: Hawthorne, CA

Became: LACoFD

Delivered yellow, but was repainted red at some point prior to becoming an LACoFD rig.

Currently owned by a collector who rents out fire trucks for parties and other events.