{"id":3082,"date":"2013-03-01T16:43:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-01T21:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/?p=3082"},"modified":"2013-03-01T16:43:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-01T21:43:00","slug":"in-memory-of-francis-walsh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/2013\/03\/old-time-trucks\/in-memory-of-francis-walsh\/","title":{"rendered":"In Memory Of Francis Walsh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/MarchOTTpic.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3083\" title=\"MarchOTTpic\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/MarchOTTpic-300x182.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"182\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/MarchOTTpic-300x182.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/MarchOTTpic-600x365.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/MarchOTTpic.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>This 1962 Dodge C900 began its working life as a fire truck tanker in Theresa, NY.\u00a0 When two local boys in Norfolk, NY tried to steal gas from the fire trucks in the station they ended up burning the station down, trucks and all.\u00a0 Theresa\u2019s volunteer fire department donated the Dodge to Norfolk to help replace their burned trucks, and it served through the 1990s.\u00a0 Before selling the truck to its new civilian owner, the fire department removed the tank.\u00a0 After passing through another pair of hands, the Dodge was purchased by Francis Walsh, who thought it would make a good-looking tractor.\u00a0 He shortened it, installed air-ride, and painted it to match the rest of his fleet, green and silver with a red frame.\u00a0 The current owner, Michael Caskinette of Norfolk, NY bought the truck five years ago after Francis Walsh passed away.\u00a0 The truck is powered by a 413 Dodge V8 engine backed by a five-speed transmission with a two-speed rear.\u00a0 Michael said, \u201cThe ratio is 6.6 on the high side and 8.4 on the low side \u2013 it\u2019s really fast!\u201d\u00a0 When Michael had his name lettered on the driver\u2019s door, he had it done in gold leaf as a nod to the truck\u2019s history as a fire truck.\u00a0 No longer a working truck, the Dodge now enjoys attending truck shows and appearing in local parades.\u00a0 Michael dedicated it to the memory of its builder, Francis Walsh of Walsh Trucking Services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This 1962 Dodge C900 began its working life as a fire truck tanker in Theresa, NY.\u00a0 When two local boys in Norfolk, NY tried to steal gas from the fire trucks in the station they ended up burning the station down, trucks and all.\u00a0 Theresa\u2019s volunteer fire department donated the Dodge to Norfolk to help<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":3083,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3082","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-old-time-trucks"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3082"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3124,"href":"https:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3082\/revisions\/3124"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}