Saturday, November 21, 2015

why a crew car tow truck? Re-use of a fire engine? A Fargo in Portugal


Found on https://www.facebook.com/groups/321577158048111/?fref=nf


Update April 2016, Xavier wrote me and told me the following:

1 . these Fargos were new and exclusively recovery cars, just for members of the ACP-automóvel clube de portugal,  (Portuguese Motor Club). A modern and exclusive benefit just for ACP members. In those days, to be a car owner was not very common to blue collar workers. Sedans and cabrios were just for rich people.
2 . yes, by coincidence, ther are painted as same red colour from Portuguese fire engines
3 - inner tools and crane are silver, light silver
4 - this Fargo had not yet a amber/orange light beacom on the roof, those appeared in Portugal a few years after.






Steve surprised me this morning with the rest of that photographers work... crazy!

1 comment:

  1. so that the accupants of the stranded vehicle can also get a ride.
    https://www.google.de/search?q=adac+abschlepp&biw=1366&bih=696&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi19szS5aLJAhWFYA8KHZIeB3EQ_AUIBygC

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