Jim,
I'll try to get around to taking a few pics of it, but it's not anything great to look at right now. I wish it looked like your '57, that's a fine old truck. The interior on mine still looks OK, but the paint on the cab is pretty worn and faded. It's got just over 13,000 miles on it. Like most of these old fire trucks it was only used for fires and parades. When I first got it the pumper body was still on it, but it was showing it's age. The truck had spent it's first 30 or so years inside of a closed in garage, but after it was retired it spent a few years outside. Then after I sold it and got it back a year or so later(long story) the pumper body had been torched up to get the pump out. The fire dept wanted the pump for training. I finished cutting the body up and pulled it all off. The old water tank had been leaking over the years and had nearly rusted the frame through over the rear axle, so I just moved the rear end up and shortened the frame. It takes up much less space in my shop that way, and it's out of the weather until I can do something with it.
