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HomePick of the DayTake ‘command’ at your local car show

Take ‘command’ at your local car show

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There aren’t very many $35,000 vehicles that will draw as much attention at your local car show as the Pick of the Day, a 1993 HME Luverne fire truck command center, which is being advertised on ClassicCars.com by a private seller.

“Don’t want to sell it, but I’m not using it the way I had planned, so I’m looking to give it a good home,” the seller says in the truck’s advertisement.

According to the seller, the truck is a decommissioned emergency vehicle from California. It’s 35-feet long, and remains fully equipped except for a ladder; the (water) cannon still works, as do all emergency features, the seller notes, adding that the vehicle has “very low engine run time.”

According to coachbuilt.com, the Luverne Motor Truck Company was founded in Minnesota in 1912 by the Leicher brothers, who had been producing automobiles since 1903. From 1912-1923, they also built hearses and fire engines. 

After 1923, they continued to produce fire trucks but started buying chassis rather than producing their own. In 1985, Luverne Fire Apparatus was acquired by Luverne Truck Equipment, a company based in South Dakota, and produced trucks on chassis from HME Ahrens-Fox and from Spartan.

Command center interior

In 1997, Spartan Motors of Lansing, Michigan, acquired Luverne and in 2003 combined it with Crimson Fire Apparatus to produce various fire-fighting and road-rescue vehicles.

The 1993 fire truck/command center is located in Las Vegas, Nevada, and is offered for $35,000.

To view this listing on ClassicCars.com, see Pick of the Day.

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Larry Edsall
Larry Edsall
A former daily newspaper sports editor, Larry Edsall spent a dozen years as an editor at AutoWeek magazine before making the transition to writing for the web and becoming the author of more than 15 automotive books. In addition to being founding editor at ClassicCars.com, Larry has written for The New York Times and The Detroit News and was an adjunct honors professor at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University.

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