“You could hear me coming a million miles away,” he said. “That engine is something else. And people knew to get out of my way, too, because loaded down with water, that thing was heavy.”

That’s how Ben Casey recently described what it was like to operate the Oriental Volunteer F.D. 1961 Oren/Autocar diesel pumper.

Sun Journal photo

The Pamlico County, North Carolina, fire department ran the truck for 40 years and then donated it to the Pamlico Community College to be used for training.

Now it has outlived its purpose and will be offered by the State for sale by auction on E-Bay starting later this week.

Read about it and where to find the listing HERE.
Oren Fire Apparatus database project WEB PAGE.

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