1917 Model T fire truck modified by American LaFrance, double tank chemical.. and coincidentally, comparable to the 1925 same model at Fire Memories Museum

for comparison to the 1925 at Fire Memories Museum: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2013/03/fire-memories-museum-in-banning.html

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Bomberosa means fire department in Mexico, evidently

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Dang Brothers wood fired pizza, uses an American LaFrance fire truck to bring the wood fire to you

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Funny Car Summer, documentary movie available from Netflix, follows Jim Dunn through the 1974 funny car races, and gives a good look at 1974

the car he raced was this rear engined Barracuda, one of only 2 rear engined funny cars racing in 1974

his ordinary job for 47 weeks a year was as a firefighter

the movie covers the drag strips in So Cal mostly, but also Oklahoma and Utah

and I've no idea why the races at El Mirage and Bonneville are in the movie, or even if they are from 1974

Carl and Veda Orr!

and no shit, they lit the back tire on fire to race bicycles with small chutes that were pulled in a parking lot race

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Fire Memories Museum in Banning

1919 Seagrave that was kept in the back of the firehouse it served, it stayed there a really long time, and the firefighters there decided to restore it when they weren't on call! They still own it and it's here at the museum on loan!

huge collection of portable classic extinguishers, patches, tools, and axes!

this one is for the kids to play on, it has water connected, and the turret is moveable so kids can aim it at the target "house on fire" (good side effect is that this waters the lawn!)

1952 Willys Jeep

there is a scrap yard that handles firetrucks (not many find good second homes, they are large, expensive, and few people can handle storing or restoring them) and they call the museum to let them know about som truck, which wasn't the only cool thing they had to show, this front bumper was there, and makes a great bar!

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