You are right-confusing as Pierce fire engines and Pierce Arrow cars were separate but Seagrave used Pierce Arrow engines. I drove a 1989 Pierce fire engine with a Detroit diesel. Dwight E. Giles Jr. Wickford RI
On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 4:27 PM Floyd Thursby via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > One of the comments says a Pierce Arrow engine: > > td1 93 <https://bringatrailer.com/member/td1/> > > Seagrave bought the Pierce Arrow engine dies when Pierce closed in 1938. > That’s basically a Pierce-Arrow V-12 in that beauty at no reserve. A few > more engine photos might be helpful to P-A parts scavengers. > > --FT > > On 4/18/19 3:30 PM, G Mann via Mercedes wrote: > > Of interest, the fire truck engine is actually a Packard engine. Once the > > elegant cars of the 30's were killed off by Depression, Packard survived > by > > producing engines for trucks and fire for a number of years. > > Your 1938 Packard engine can still be rebuilt because a store of parts > > remains from the industrial sales.... Wonderful !! > > > > On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 8:40 AM Craig via Mercedes < > mercedes@okiebenz.com> > > wrote: > > > >> On Thu, 18 Apr 2019 09:13:31 -0400 Floyd Thursby via Mercedes > >> <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > >> > >>> https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1952-seagrave-900/ > >> That's quite unique! > >> > >> This, however, might be a better choice: > >> > >> > https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1938-packard-twelve-convertible-sedan/ > >> > >> > >> Craig > >> > >> _______________________________________ > >> http://www.okiebenz.com > >> > >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > >> > >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > >> > >> > > _______________________________________ > > http://www.okiebenz.com > > > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > > > -- > --FT > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
