Posted by skycarp on November 12, 2008 at 07:54:07 from (208.92.184.136):
In Reply to: Range land Fire truck posted by Robert Schoonhoven on November 12, 2008 at 06:13:20:
Pitch said: (quoted from post at 07:48:06 11/12/08) Can"t help you with value but remember even though the miles are low and the body is probably cherry, the engine has a ton of hours on it.
Not necessarily so. If the fire pump is powered through the transfer case, when pumping water the transmission will have to be in direct drive gear, and the speedometer will register miles just as if it were being driven down the road at the same RPM.
If the pump is powered by its own engine then the auxiliary engine should have an hour meter on it.
That being said, 12,000 miles for a 1960 model year of any kind of vehicle, much less a rangeland fire engine, seems quite low. For a rangeland fire engine, they may have to travel many miles to just arrive at the fire.
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