cute little Ford cabover fuel truck

[maddawg308]

Saw this on one of the other sites we like frequenting with our credit cards. This is a 1974 Ford C-600 cabover, looks like a short wheelbase fuel truck. The OD green paint job hints at a former military career. Anyone know what these were used for initially? While short and cute looking, it can't haul the water that most fire trucks carry, I don't see it too useful as a airport fire truck in its previous life. Any guesses?

 

[armytruck63]

I wonder if it carried de-icer solution.

 

[drgreg]

Dawg, Your avatar is WAY too gay.

 

[maddawg308]

Dawg, Your avatar is WAY too gay.

Ha ha, no that is in response to all the folks like gimpy et al who purposely come up with the weirdest in avatars. Since my theme has been Firefly for the last several years, every avatar showing Cpt. Mal Reynolds from the show, this new avatar in the last scene from the episode Trash where he ends up having his clothes stolen off him by another character. You have to see the episode, it's funny. Anyways, it was Firefly-themed shock factor avatar day I guess. It won't be up for long.

Anyways, I don't think the truck was bobbed. It looks factory build, just kinda short for much usefulness as a water truck or fuel truck on the flight line. Thought it might be a custom purpose. I think armytruck63 might be onto something...

 

[patracy]

If we want to have a fight over the weirdest avatars, I'm your huckleberry....

 

[319]

Fuel truck for a Zamboni?

Second guess: Fuel truck for short flights?

 

[hndrsonj]

I wonder if it carried de-icer solution.

Usually the OPS Departments have the De-ice trucks not Fire Deptartments. I have seen many small airfields and FOL's have very small trucks (most on 1 ton chassis's). Hard to say.

 

[73m819]

could be a fuel truck for flight line equipment

 

[Tanner]

Flightline 'blue ice' collection truck?

bnc

 

[armytruck63]

flightline 'blue ice' collection truck? Rofl

bnc

eeew!

 

[area52]

Shiny!!

(christina hendricks was hot in that episode!!)

 

[nkawtg]

Road oiler maybe?

 

[ralbelt]

Its been bobbed.

 

[SCSG-G4]

I think the picture has been resized, shrinking the horizontal aspect. Changing it from 400 x 300 to 500 x 300 makes a little more reasonable picture.

 

[wreckerman893]

I'd love to find a little cab over tractor like that to pull my van with....the M915 is overkill.

 

[73m819]

WM, there is one in the classifieds