I finally found a good hood for my 53 gmc fire truck but as I predicted, I ended up getting a whole truck. It's a 1954 450 series. Still a cool, good running truck that has a good 248 engine and the pto winch still works. Hood was dang near perfect. I do enjoy hunting down info on the different years and I never knew they had wipers on the top of the cabs on some. I put a picture on because I noticed there are not many similar in the gallery. I'm assuming the 55 1st series were similar in these sizes

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