Holy S*** ! , tool innovations from firefighters, for firefighters. This rocks! Sharing great ideas for the benefit of all. Mucho Grande!

Damn, this ought to be framed art (minus the extra set of earplugs)Check out all the bitchin tools, modified, improvised, and uses you never thought of for common stuff, but firefighters have found work really good for propping open doors, etc,http://www.vententersearch.com/pockets.htmThanks tohttp://lostliver.blogspot.com/ for the discovery!

from an expansive early Pierce Arrow photo gallery at Dieselpunks

see the rest at http://www.dieselpunks.org/photo/albums/piercearrows-part-ii

first car show of the year, the Vista Frosty burger run

pretty cool 3rd tailight Above a deluxe, below a super deluxe Made from spare parts from the back yard when the city started getting on the owners case to clear out the neglected cars

1911 Packard fire engine in Detroit

From http://www.shorpy.com/

1910's to 1950's fire engines

1910 Peerless 1928 Seldon and I noticed that this and the 1910 Peerless are moth barked Ft Washington 1941 Ames Iowa photos from http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=428585&page=927

Jim and Chesters Garage Tumblr has a lot of cool stuff!

An enclosed transporter made from a fire truck, not the first I've seen! Les made one http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2008/06/68-ford-transporter-aint-that-cool-i.html An Edsel racing Baja.. amazing Above is the James Garner race team from http://prova275.tumblr.com/ Jim and Chesters Garage Tumblr

Photos of the unusual from days gone by thread on the HAMB

Sad. Looks like 2 or 3 Buick bodies grafted together with an RV on top.I just found this post on the Hemmings Blog, and it identifies this vehicle as having been called the ShamRockAway http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2011/01/31/hemmings-find-of-the-day-the-shamrockaway if you guessed the above is a stretched Locomobile Model 48 with a 525 CI six, you're right Never seen Jeeps on a