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Forum: Fire and Rescue and Emergency Vehicles 08-10-2020, 05:23 AM
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Posted By frizzen
Re: 1950s FWD fire engine

If you like superheros, skip this one.
Personally i prefer REAL Heros such as our firefighterman, but to each their own.

So a while ago, my arch nemesis 'The Flash' struck my place, yet again....
Forum: Fire and Rescue and Emergency Vehicles 09-19-2019, 12:41 AM
Replies: 29
Views: 13,754
Posted By frizzen
Re: 1950s FWD fire engine

Thank you!

We took it up to the Lebanon '50s Fest' meet, and overall it performed pretty well.
The soft crawler tires on front need the beads glued. The siren sounds great in the house, is...
Forum: Fire and Rescue and Emergency Vehicles 09-08-2019, 08:29 PM
Replies: 29
Views: 13,754
Posted By frizzen
Re: 1950s FWD fire engine

Haven't had a lot of time to play with this, but i've got the rear end a bit further along.

https://i.imgur.com/VMOLeXjh.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/2Orph3ih.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/EzCANNKh.jpg...
Forum: Fire and Rescue and Emergency Vehicles 06-20-2019, 12:41 AM
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Views: 13,754
Posted By frizzen
Re: 1950s FWD fire engine

Thanks, i'm just glad it's starting to look more like the plan.

https://i.imgur.com/MXBbOCth.jpg

Preview with some red and chrome.

Still have lots of fabrication, some brass work, tracking...
Forum: Fire and Rescue and Emergency Vehicles 05-31-2019, 10:02 PM
Replies: 29
Views: 13,754
Posted By frizzen
Re: 1950s FWD fire engine

It's not much of a video

https://youtu.be/W6Vw1JSvvJI

It's only on a 3ch radio, siren is switched by hand
Forum: Fire and Rescue and Emergency Vehicles 03-31-2019, 09:45 PM
Replies: 29
Views: 13,754
Posted By frizzen
Re: 1950s FWD fire engine

Been hanging out a lot with jerryindy, we got a little farther. Tailboard, running boards, rubrails, reshaped the wheelwells. Shaking out old memories and and working out plans
...
Forum: Fire and Rescue and Emergency Vehicles 03-26-2019, 12:44 AM
Replies: 29
Views: 13,754
Posted By frizzen
Re: 1950s FWD fire engine

Thanks guys, i'm glad it's starting to look better. (Heh, just wait for the diamond plate, hose beds, reels, lights...) It should get really interesting soon.

The bed uses the stock jjrc cross...
Forum: Fire and Rescue and Emergency Vehicles 03-23-2019, 12:10 AM
Replies: 29
Views: 13,754
Posted By frizzen
Re: 1950s FWD fire engine

Fenders, compartment doors, chassis supports, braces... anyway, it's all a single piece and getting close to actually being a bed now.

Scuffed interior of beacon to help diffuse the leds.
Federal...
Forum: Fire and Rescue and Emergency Vehicles 02-02-2019, 11:52 PM
Replies: 29
Views: 13,754
Posted By frizzen
Re: 1950s FWD fire engine

Hey that's enough playing grabass in my station! Say goodbye to the "Hillbilly Fire Engine". Time to start doing this like we mean it.

New chassis installed, rear driveshaft stretched, hooked up...
Forum: Fire and Rescue and Emergency Vehicles 01-12-2019, 02:56 AM
Replies: 29
Views: 13,754
Posted By frizzen
Re: 1950s FWD fire engine

Sure i can call it a hose-wagon, but with only a couple hundred feet of 2.5" hose, i wasn't really buying it either. If he already dropped the rest of the hose at a fireground, what new emergency is...
Forum: Fire and Rescue and Emergency Vehicles 01-05-2019, 09:15 PM
Replies: 29
Views: 13,754
Posted By frizzen
Re: 1950s FWD fire engine

I hope the chrome pen will impress you as much at i have been. Oh yeah, the headlights on this got chromed too.

The hose has a little more memory than i'd like, but looks pretty killer for 2.5" or...
Forum: Fire and Rescue and Emergency Vehicles 01-05-2019, 05:04 AM
Replies: 29
Views: 13,754
Posted By frizzen
Re: 1950s FWD fire engine

I thought the fire hydrant came with the Texaco American LaFrance pumper. It was actually a Tonka that was found at a swapmeet, and it followed our young firefighter home to display with his Engine....
Forum: Fire and Rescue and Emergency Vehicles 01-04-2019, 06:48 AM
Replies: 29
Views: 13,754
Posted By frizzen
Re: 1950s FWD fire engine

A lot of life happened, still don't have the new chassis to start designing around. So rather than take a cab only frame to the meet, let's make some kinda hose-wagon brushfire rig. I dunno, let's...
Forum: Fire and Rescue and Emergency Vehicles 09-30-2018, 05:43 AM
Replies: 29
Views: 13,754
Posted By frizzen
Re: 1950s FWD fire engine

I fired up "CAD" to see what kind of setup we're looking at with the punched out wheelbase...

https://i.imgur.com/854eLaJh.jpg

The cardboard didn't want to stay creased at the top of the bed. ...
Forum: Fire and Rescue and Emergency Vehicles 09-23-2018, 07:13 AM
Replies: 29
Views: 13,754
Posted By frizzen
1950s FWD fire engine

This is a JerryIndy build i'm helping out with. Hopefully he remembers his password soon...

The goal, model "High Fenders" a 1956 FWD fire engine run as "Engine 2" by Washington Twp. VFD in...
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