My other COE. The one I am NOT selling.

So this 1941 Ford COE Fire Truck long chased until it was finally caught as explained in the captured text below. Pretty lucky he kept on it I have to say!

1941 Ford COE City Service Ladder Truck.

This truck was retired from the Newberg Fire Dept, where I live, the year I graduated from Newberg High School. 1976. It was Newberg’s 5th motorized fire apparatus. Firemen actually rode on the side running boards to the fires! 
She has a 150 gallon tank, and a small gear drive PTO pump.

I followed it’s location for years. Finally it was left abandoned behind a pizza parlor in The Dalles OR. I tried to buy it for several years with no luck. There was always some reason it could not be sold.

He started calling on it more often. Then one day I called and the guy said it had been sold but not paid for yet. Department said the first person to get the money to him would be the new owner. I hung up the phone and jumped in my pickup and headed to The Dalles, from Newberg, and bought her for my own!

NFD #5 has 4,700 original miles. I’ve got it running and driving. 90hp Flathead V-8. Including the ladders that stick out the back, she is a little under 30′ long. I drive her about 2 miles to the Newberg Classic Fire Apparatus show held during the Newberg Old Fashion Festival in July.
She has been stored indoors since. Hope to restore her someday!

Now I would not have got that lucky trying to buy that. Most likely because I would either not be in the right place at the right time or I just wouldn’t have the money 🙁
Anyway, you want to look at it he got a killer score picking this up with such low mileage on it. Must be unbearably slow with an old Flathead Ford powering it but, it’s still cool to have!