Hello, I'm happy to be here. i just got home a 1975 CF686F aerialscope. She's a little rough but get her a new collar and a cut and she'll be the talk of the local shows. What better place to belong than a mack forum site. Fire trucks are cool but mack fire trucks are even better. My friend the tinman on here is the mack fire truck googrue so i wanted to be one up on him with a scope. just kidding Ray. So i thank you for letting me on and will learn from the experiences of everyone else. The story of this truck is i saw it for bid on a website and bidded on it and won. this truck was beside the hudson rivr in schulyerville, Ny wich is north of albany. I bought it pretty much sight unseen. It had served with saratoga springs it's whole career. and had been sitting in the mud for 6 years. long story short we pulled it out of the mud using a loader. we put batteries in it and it fired right up and we drove 850 miles to south carolina. and it is missing some things but we will find them. the only mishaps we had were blowing a tire in VA and lost the belts outside of charlotte, NC. but she runs like a new puppy. here is a photo.