Dream machine

Auctions America, Auburn, USA 2-6 September

COMPILED BY CHR IS BIETZK

YOU CAN ALWAYS tell which people have given in to adulthood completely: they are the ones who no longer harbour a desire to drive a fire engine. We realised long ago that we do not have the stones to pull people out of burning buildings for a living, but the lure of the firetruck remains sufficiently strong that on seeing this magnificent 1924 Ahrens-Fox LS4 for the first time, we began calculating the cost of the 30-long garage we’d need to build to house it. Inconveniently, we find ourselves short of the $200,000 that will likely be needed to buy the truck in the first place, but there can be no quibbling with the estimate in this case. There’s enough beautifully mechanical precision engineering bolted to chassis 1628 that such a…

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