If it’s anywhere near that email me with an asking price. Seriously, we might want something like that.

I guess you really can say you are a fire truck (or at least have one) at the next reunion!

Alternatively, make a roadtrip, take pictures, upload to imgur, call it “Robert the red firetrucks vacation, link on reddit, reap huge amounts of karma, sell it for twice what it’s worth as a fire truck/karma machine combo.

Both option can be combined …

Maybe an add in one of the prospector magazines?

The tank will hold it’s water, how much water, how leaky is it with the PTO pump engaged?

Does all the remotely-operated valving work?

Will the pump prime itself and draft to at least a 3-foot head so as to be able to suck up a tank of water from a pond/river?

What manifold pressure will the pump deliver? Not much is needed to lay dust at a site, but firefighting work needs a minimum of 95#, preferably 120#.

Rebuilding the pump, PTO and valving could run into $everal Large, and if you need a new manifold set, double that (a cracked manifold usually scraps an old firewagon if it cant be heliarc welded). I had a buddy who acquired a big Kenworth water distributor, and he rented it out each summer for wildland firefighting. Normal annual maintenance on it ran $3K-$5K, scheduled items like pump overhaul, main drive clutch, tires, etc were usually $2K per item. His rental fees were steep, his rig was in demand, but it was a rare season when he turned a profit with it.

Not cheap to keep. No sir.

There are some collectors who love to fix things up and drive them down main street in parades.

Given the gas mileage, it isn’t likely that they would be driven much unless there were a real emergency, so not taxing them is a pretty cheap way to have a bunch of extra equipment around for civil defense.

You might want to look in to your state to see if they have a similar policy.

Siren?
Like say…..
A Federal Q series electro-mechanical?

If so how much for just the noise maker?

BGM

If it is a quick sale you are looking for, scrap it. If you have a long sales windonw, autotrader-like websites would be a better choice.

That being said, there are a lot of collectors out there that fix them up just to do parades and such.

Craigslist it and get some cash.

Ry, Yeah, it would suck to drive long haul but it runs very well, actually.

Not sure if the fire truck is gtg for a 3000 mile pull, though. Probably geared nice and low. Fuck I did that drag from San Jose to Seattle in a charger 440 RT with three gears stacked to get you to 45, 4th took you up to 60ish. Fucking locker was a bitch on the ice-covered Sisksious, too.

It ain’t worth much.

I’ve been peripherally involved or aware of several used-truck sales in the last few years. The first was a functional/current test 1973 Ward-LaFrance, with most of its equipment. It went to a (poor) neighboring department for about $3500.

Another truck (roughly the same vintage as yours) got sold for $1 to a department that arranged shipment to the Dominican Republic, to replace a truck that had been destroyed in one of the hurricanes. It was an upgrade for them…

The remainder have been sold to local golf courses, who use them to run the irrigation system and transfer water between ponds.

In other words: Craigslist it for a couple weeks, expect lots of tire-kickers, and then scrap it.