![]() Edgar Fack and his wife Denise, and the city administrator of Surfside Beach. He winched the truck in, as it wasn’t running at the time.īoyer and his wife, Shirley, had multiple people on hand to help load the truck and send them off in South Carolina, including Sheridan’s Chief Gary Harnish, Local 276 President Gerald “Jerry” Johnston, retired Capt. ![]() In addition, “I had some concerns about going up the ramps into the trailer, if it would handle the weight,” he noted, so he brought extra lumber to shore things up. “It’s bigger and heavier than a standard pickup, but luckily I had a trailer large enough to handle it.” “It was a fairly large vehicle for what I’m used to,” Boyer says. Even with all his experience transporting his own vehicles long-distance, the move did bring some challenges. “I was honored to be asked and to be able to assist,” he says.Īnd it was not a small task. So when Sheridan came calling for help saving a piece of their history, he could relate. Not only does Boyer work on his own vehicles, however, but he has spent years helping to restore an antique engine for his own local fire department where he’s a former volunteer–the department’s first brand-new truck, a 1930 Chevrolet. His brother-in-law, a firefighter at Sheridan, helped make the connection, knowing Boyer’s hobby building, showing and transporting antique vehicles that range from the 1930s to 1960s. However, they still needed a way to transport it. The stars began to align in 2018 when Surfside and Sheridan got in touch and struck a new loan agreement to document the truck’s transfer, in case of any future matters of ownership. When American LaFrance went bankrupt in 2014, however, Surfside had no way to return it. Later the engine was sold back to American LaFrance for its historical museum, and wound up on loan to the nearby Surfside Beach Fire Department in South Carolina. ![]() They came tantalizingly close to buying it back in 2005, but lost out to another buyer. ![]() Sheridan Fire-Rescue in Wyoming had spent decades tracking down its 1919 American LaFrance through the effort of now-retired captain Edgar Fack. With the experience and equipment needed to transport antique vehicles-as well as a shared appreciation for preserving fire department history-Boyer eagerly volunteered to assist with these efforts. A century-old fire truck has finally returned to its home department thanks to a 2,000 mile cross-country lift by GearGrid owner Mike Boyer. ![]()
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