Scratch built 1965 Crown Firecoach Engine 51

[bitner1970]

I just finished this engine today. I scratch built the entire body, and cab from styrene, as nobody makes a 1/25 scale Crown. These are what a fire engine should look like to me. This model represents LA County Engine 51 from the series Emergency in the early to mid 70's. This engine appeared in the first two seasons. I made patterns for the main parts of the cab so I can trace them out and make different Crowns in the future. I used various detail parts in white metal from AITM, and the front and rear ends and wheels from an AMT LaFrance pumper. I still need to find some decals for LA County fire apparatus. There are a lot of area I want to improve on the next one I build, but this is my favorite fire engine of all time.







Cheers Bill

[bitner1970]

[rnagle]

"The royalty of fire apparatus"!

Quite the coincidence: Recently ordered the book "Crown Firecoach 1951 - 1985 Photo Archive" which arrived last week and today you post this one!

Fine replica and great tribute to a classic show too!

[muleskinner]

Nice going there kid. Really cool model of the show truck. For the decals you might check with Jeff Halpin at www.policecarmodels.com as he may have them. He owns Chimneyville Decals now and they used to carry them.

Dad

[spimike]

great job i just attended the Emergency reunion in Carson CA last weekend they had both engine 51's on site id say you got it spot on.

[bitner1970]

Oh man, I am soooooo jealous. I would have loved to have been able to meet Mike Stoker.

Cheers:

Bill

[78KW]

Very nice

[Southgate]

Cool build! It has that classic "picture book firetruck" look about it. Dan

[tiny]

Great Job Bill!! I bet I missed it at SFH also, ehh??

[Deleted]

Yep very nice Crown.