Hemmings Daily: Fighting fire in style - 1938 Packard Super Eight fire engine

1938 Packard Super Eight fire engine. Photos by Mike Maez, courtesy Gooding & Company. By 1938, Packard had been out of the truck manufacturing business for 15 years, but a brief collaboration with the General Fire Truck Corporation of Detroit, Michigan, saw Packard supply four 1937-'38 chassis for conversion into fire trucks. Reportedly, just one was built on the Super Eight platform, and next month the claimed-only 1938 Packard Super Eight fire engine, constructed by General Fire Truck and with a documented [View in Browser | Subscribe]( [Hemmings Daily] Monday, July 24, 2017 [Fighting fire in style - 1938 Packard Super Eight fire engine]( [Fighting fire in style - 1938 Packard Super Eight fire engine]( Posted by Kurt Ernst - 1938 Packard Super Eight fire engine. Photos by Mike Maez, courtesy Gooding & Company. 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