My fire truck restoration, What I did on my Summer vacation

These are pics of me restoring my 1965 International R185 fire truck.They start When I went to check it out to buy it, to the finished project,finished enough for now. This took place in the summer to fall of 2009. This is a silent movie, you want music turn your radio on. It has an International 501 cu.in. Red Diamond inline 6 cyl. engine.

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Autos & Vehicles

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• restoration
• International
• firetruck
• paint
• job
• big
• old
• truck
• red
• diamond
• 501
• cu.in.

[trenano]

Nice and hard work results. Ist also more significant for a not professional restoring man.

Photos are "music" for our eyes, dont need more to see this nice, nice work. Congratulations from a fan of rebuilders.

[danfhowe]

@trenano thanks for the nice comment.  Dan

[zippyzappyz]

the american dream

[danfhowe]

@zippyzappyz thanks for watching.  Dan

[martintheman16]

looks like new, nice job!!!!. How much was it. I am hoping to do something like this one day but what was the paint before the red.

[danfhowe]

@martintheman16 The paint before the red is metal primer, you have to use primer on bare metal and sand it down again then you paint with your color. I traded a 52 chevy car that I had about 1500 dollars in, for the truck and about 500 more in parts like the siren and other stuff. I used cheep paint and is fading a little now it should be rubbed out to shine better. I probbly have about 2200 dollars into it not counting any of my time. Thanks for the comment. Dan

[kentarjoon]

Needs a sound track

[RetroCaptain]

Good day

We had a 1958 IH truck where I used to work. It had a V8.

Looks good! Do you have or want tp get the hoses/& reel?

It looks good! Good for parades or "cruise night at A&W"

[martintheman16]

@danfhowe thankyou for the info, and great job on it

[danfhowe]

@ThEc00lEr Thanks for the comment, good luck in getting your pilots licence and getting your truck done. Nice job on the grill, that looks great. Your truck looks to be in pretty good shape. Dan