10/11/2008

The Chesterfield Fire Department

Do you like HEIGHTS?


This is Engine 34, parked in front of old Station #3 (Bensley), affectionately and with the tongue firmly in the cheek, referred to as "Camp Piney"! Engine 34 was a 1984 Seagrave, with a 350 Big Cam IV Cummins (with a Jake brake of course) and an allison automatic transmission.



How about NOW?




This is "12 truck", a classic open cab 1972 Pirsch, V-903 Cummins (dual straight pipe exhaust) and an early Allison Automatic transmission, that made that awesome V-8 Cummins slip just the least bit during shifting which resulted in that baby ROARING (it had solid lifters which resulted in people commenting that it sounded like it was "Cummins APART). Note the Federal Q-2 1hp motor driven siren, the loudest around.