Submitted by Amanda Draper
This is the first truck that the Ridgeway District Volunteer Fire Department put into service (located in Ridgeway, Va). The volunteers have worked hard over the past several years to restore this truck. The truck is a 1959 Ford F750 American La-France 500 Gallon Pumper. It was restored as part of the departments 50th anniversary. Most of the work was donated by local businesses and the volunteer firemen. The restoration process has taken 4 years to complete. Picture shown courtesy of Chief Brian Draper
More pictures available at www.ridgewayfire.com
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Awesome job. I love the 59′s used to be engineer on one. Great pumper
our fire department has the same exact fire truck. same model and every thing accept it is made by hortonville fire apperatus and the fire chassy is cab hight with a ladder over the truck. now the truck is for sale but it still runs and every thing paints good . the bad thing is that im the only one on the department that gives a crap about it. im not the cheif but i dont think it should sit outside in 20 degrie weather year round. we are located in door county wisconsin and it use to fight fires on chambers island witch is like a desirted junk yard with houses and barely 100 people and horibile gravel roads. now the department has another truck that was custom made by a near by fire department to compeat with ours along time ago and that truck was put out on chambers and was rotting not even used out there. so now the cab is being lifted soon of the f-750 and put on this peice of crap 1960 ford f-250 and the f-750 is being compleatley disected and so goes on the wasteing of a non exsiting anymore fire truck company. i want to buy it one peice before the cheif buys it and disects it. id rather have someone who would take care of it buy it.