1958 F.W.D.

Every time it snows here, the same people always ask me "Why don't you run that FWD in this!! It was made for it!!!" And my reply is always the same: "I know you're not as intelligent as you appear so let me break it down for you: 55 year old truck in pretty damn close to original condition.....Would YOU run it on the roads that have four inches of salt and brine on them?"

Here is their patch:

Darren and I have been friends for several years- He's been here in the States and Eastern Pa, although never for Father's Day Weekend in June......He desperately needs to come here THEN!!!!

G'Day Mate!!! I was wondering when you would wander in here!!!!!

Thats him. I sent him a facebook message to stop in here and see this thread.

Turbopower and Albert- Mike Martinelli has quite an extensive registry of Mack apparatus. He's a member here, I'll tell him to check out this thread. Turbo I'm a member of Bryn Athyn and have their old 1958 FWD.

I just saw Billy a month or so ago. I still volunteer down at the Bryn Athyn Fire Company and get down there occasionally- took one of the pumpers down there for fuel. Tell him Randy Yardumian said hello. I live on Durham Street, at the 5 point intersection of Durham/Penn/Delaware. If you know where Ricardo's Tavern House is on Main Street, right up from there, but before you get to the Firehouse and Dimmick Park.

Then you probably remember my gradparent's place- Cold Spring Farm, 2314 Valley Road, directly across the street from Tinari's. I pumped gas for Billy when I was 16/17 for 2 days a week after school from 4pm-9pm and Sundays from 9am-4pm with Vic Pietro. We live in town, right near the fire station and Dimmick Park

My apologies, I cannot recall.......Whats yer last name and where in the Valley did you live??? Are you a product of Lower Moreland??? I learned all about life towing with my Dad for Chuck Hale (Chuck's Gulf...) and my first job was pumping gas at Ferrari's Sunoco. Do you remember the F-Model Macks that used to park at Chucks? Those were my fathers.

MikeD where in the City are you? I was born and raised in Huntingdon Valley within sight of the Far Northeast and then when I was trying to get hired onto Philly Fire I owned a house in Castor Gardens near Castor & Cottman.

Mike, maybe it's the wrinkles, too???? JUST KIDDING!!!!!!!

The Leithsville (company 61) and Se-Wy-Co (company 18) was supposed to be a friendly merger. The fire took place 2 days after the administrative paperwork was signed by all parties. The Chief of Se Wy Co used it as an opportunity to drive the members of Leithsville out, replaced the entire board (which was supposed to have been made up from members of both organizations) with his own people, and basically swallowed up what was remaining of Leithsville. It got pretty ugly there for a while, so much so that the new station could not even get built due to court battles involving who would get the insurance money and how it would be spent. That all got hammered out, and the new station is just NOW finally getting towards the completion phase. Too bad there are no members of Leithsville left to staff it.

bulldog you forgot to include that it's really for Leithsville which Se Wy Co swallowed in a hostile takeover.

Barry has Chat all fixed. A whole bunch of us were in and out tonight, having a good old time telling lies. THANKS BARRY!!!! Maybe we could start something up.....Let's shoot for this coming Sunday at 8 or 9pm EST......

Ken my wife was bitching the other day (4 months pregnant) that she was tired, her back hurt, her feet hurt, etc etc.....I said "Qwitcher Cryin. Back in the day, Pioneer Wimmin would have spat the kid out, and been out plowing the field the next day and still had dinner on the table." The couch is pretty comfy if you take the back cushions off.

Scrapple is made up of all the shit that falls on the floor while they are making hot dogs.

Correct!!! Well done. 243 is in Bensonhurst, Bklyn.

Scrapple, swiss and onion......I am intrigued......I know what I am ordering at the diner next time I go for breffist!!!!!

Two examples of FDNY CF Macks with Ward 79 bodies and 4-door rear cab enclosures. FDNY purchased these after Mack ceased production of complete fire bodies. Ward 79 continued until they closed down- which is when ITE of Hagerstown, Maryland took over for a short time until Mack stopped production of the CF Chassis alltogether. Both photos by me.

No wonder Slpwlkr is scratching his head about those plates over the teeth.......He's never pushed snow before!!! LOL

Yessir....There were four of us all in at the same time trying to talk to each other. But we were talking to ourselves....HA!

You probably think of it as "Ragu" or "Francesco Rinaldi" or something like that.

Correct. Seems that we all had the same problem- I would type "hey can you guys see this?" and no one would reply.

No. 6.5hp Toro. I believe the short block is Husqvarna. Oh. Shit. Swedish. G-DAMMIT!!!!!

Dinner tonight was the leftover prime rib I made for yesterday's dinner, but augmented with fresh cheese ravioli, red gravy and bread purchased on Monday at an Italian Shop in Brooklyn. It was deelishess!!!!!