Looks like a hot air balloon basket on the back of that 1907 American LaFrance

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a variety of cool 1930s fire trucks

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How a JOX model American LaFrance ladder truck was delivered in the 40s

The straight-frame Model JO and JOX was the industry's fist compact, cab forward service aerial. The JO/JOX established the basic configuration of American aerial ladder trucks for many years to come....

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just waiting through the years for a new home and some owner that will appreciate a 1917 American LaFrance firetruck

and I just learned that the co-founder's name was Truckson LaFrance. interesting 1st namehttp://jingletruck.com/1917-american-lafrance-fire-17...

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some crazy wonderful gearheads took a pair of American LaFrance speedsters to the Paris to Peking Rally

Inspired by the above 2007 entrant to the rally, the Traftons began a mission to rally from China to France with their own ginormous cars, and what they started with after looking around the USA for...

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33 cars who set out to tour New Zealand in January 1917, to survey the roads to get improvements made, only 10 made it

100 people including MPs, Roads Board members, business managers, telegraph operators, photographers, an ambulance man, three land scouts, a biographer, and a handful of reporters were in 33 cars set...

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quite bizzare, but true, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway has some cool things that were donated, but never went into its museum, and they are finally tired of storing them, so it's auction time in 5 weeks

No, they don't seem to have any one with the motivation to take a single decent photo, even with a cell phone... but they are going to get these sold to go to a good home... so, there's that. One old...

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