Re: Waking up a 39 Coupe after 47 years

Posted by boothguy On 2017/3/6 0:06:45

Yes the mountain has been here a long time and I have been running Fire and Rescue calls with the local VFD for a long time, 30yrs, and have been on several accident scenes involving runaway trucks, We had a driver of a Power company truck killed a couple years ago. When I started in the Fire company we had a donated 49 La france open cab engine with straight cut gears and I've had a couple thrill rides down the mountain at 80plus mph when the driver missed a shift. We used to do a lot of things years ago- some I'd like to relive, others not so much. I have a 32 Essex with mechanical brakes and I've driven it down the mountain- twice- I still have it but it lives in a friends garage down in the flats.