I dont know too much about them. they were pretty neat engines though. Late 50's mid 60's era units. Amazingly the Forestry department still has them in their maintenance program, they are on loan to this fire department. Pretty neat

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Not to be picky, but they are not fire "trucks"- They are fire engines. Only made that mistake once! Are you sure they are that old? My department still has a mid 70's IH engine that looks older than those.

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1984 300TD 1981 240D

I grew up calling them trucks... so that habit sticks with me.. the people with them said one was a 59 I think and the other was a mid 60's not sure which was which. I thought they were neat though.

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Amazing how little changes in the heavy truck lines. We have an early 80's Ford engine that is pretty much identical bodywise to the one in the second picture. BTW- where is Estiffanugla?

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I knew someone would ask that.... .. It's a tiiiiny town about 10-15 miles away from the Railroad I volunteer with, it's on the St. Joe river I believe

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Cool! I dig old trucks. The Cornbinder is definitely mid-60's vintage design so the Ford would be late 50's.

Like 10fords said, talk about getting your money's worth out of a design. Variations of both are still being used.

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1980 300TD-China Blue/Blue MBTex-2nd Owner, 107K (Alt Blau) OBK #15
'06 Chevy Tahoe Z71 (for the wife & 4 kids, current mule) '03 Honda Odyssey (son #1's ride, reluctantly) '99 GMC Suburban (255K+ miles, semi-retired mule) 21' SeaRay Seville (summer escape pod)

"Cornbinder" Now there is a term I haven't heard in 30 years.

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We have one of those cabover Ford fire engines in our Fire Science program at school. Just sits in the parking lot most of the time.

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1977 300d 70k--sold 08
1985 300TD 185k+
1984 307d 126k--sold 8/03
1985 409d 65k--sold 06
1984 300SD 315k--daughter's car
1979 300SD 122k--sold 2/11
1999 Fuso FG Expedition Camper
1993 GMC Sierra 6.5 TD 4x4
1982 Bluebird Wanderlodge CAT 3208--Sold 2/13

Definitely a carryover from the days of yore when we used to do our own seed production.

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1980 300TD-China Blue/Blue MBTex-2nd Owner, 107K (Alt Blau) OBK #15
'06 Chevy Tahoe Z71 (for the wife & 4 kids, current mule) '03 Honda Odyssey (son #1's ride, reluctantly) '99 GMC Suburban (255K+ miles, semi-retired mule) 21' SeaRay Seville (summer escape pod)

Cornbinder huh. not heard that in years and years

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This definately caught my eye-- the resident old truck guy.
about 1997 there were lots of books in the book stores for vintage truck enthusiests that aren't avalable now without searching.

In an old fire engine book there was a pic of a one of a kind custom crewcab GMC hose/pumper truck--the original black and white pic of it rolling out of the factory-- It went to some large municipality in the washington DC -Virgina area. A few yrs later ther was a paperback book put out by cars and parts and the same rigg sitting in Leons salvage 70 miles south of DC. I never forgot about it and though how cool it would be to have in the back yard all painted red again with the gold striping with the rear platform used for poker games.
I specialize in vintage gmc --hard to find stuff, and a Dr Denbar from Chesapeke VA saw a cabover part ad I had on ebay and says he needs the acess door latches for his newly aqqired fire truck.
long story -short---its the same truck--- He had to get someone else to buy it from Leon who took a dislike to Denbar, and he's just finished a beautiful resto on a american Lafrance and probably drug the gmc out to start work on just now, This truck--engine is a Touchstone known to many many firemen all over the east coast from old pictures of it---its great that Denbar is gonna do it just as well as he did that La France.





He had to get another cab for pieces to cannabalize and im going to VA to get whats left for my trucks

unfortunately the browser wont let me upload pics now

I have the original color versions of these pictures too if you'd like to see them I'll post them too. and please! post your pictures when you can!

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this is the best I can do now with this buggy browser.
The truck was # 2 of the gordonsville fire Dept--is that in VA?

Here is a very similar crewcab GMC that might have been built by the same body company.


VIN
AF 502


and my replacement grill bars-- no metal at this time--but ya do what you can

http://www.ebay.com/itm/130697455379?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649



http://www.weimarauto.com/inventory/view.php/cd205e58-c686-4680-9963-77363650684b

I know nothing on the history of the ones I posted. there is several departmental names on them all of which have been taken off and new names/locals placed over them the Pumper had 2 names alone I could see on the door, the tanker had 2-4 on there too. both ran nicely though (they had a dunk tank there and the truck would fill the tank when it got low)

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