My M-715 Fire Engine

[hailstoneMT]

Hi,

I just took on a new project. I purchased a 1968 M-715 from the fire department that I work for. It has 20,000 miles and had a new engine put in 3,000 ago.

I don't have the year, but the Montana Dept. of Natural Resources and Conservation converted abunch of M-715's to wildland fire engines. It still has the firefighting equipment and it is all functional. It has been converted to 12v.

I plan on keeping it as original to the fire engine as I can. It will also be used for fire protection on our property.

Thanks for the great forum resources and I will try to post as many pictures as I can.

[bigprojectm715]

Nice m715! Congrats on the purchase and welcome to the zone

[snakeyes]

hi and welcome very nice truck

[ray steadward]

Very cool!....Welcome

[Flingarrows]

Looks good. If the department still has the tailgate around, members are always looking for them

[Don Cavey]

Very nice looking; cool! Normally I am a "stock" kinda guy but I totally agree that you may want to keep this truck the way you remember it. It has a different meaning to you. And, the reason I like the stock appearance is because I drove the M715 when it was new and I was in the army.

Congratulations!

[glenn]

Looks like you still have the MT DNR paperwork for the conversion they did. Might want to scan that and have brute4c post it up as a sticky in the manual section. There are a few of these trucks around. Where in MT are you? I worked in ND for a couple years and got to drive across MT once or twice.

[fishtail]

Glenn, it is already posted somewhere in the manuals section.

I have seen several of these trucks sold thru GSA here, yours is the most complete original one I have seen. I bet they did a hundred trucks or more.

Some sold here in Wis. a few years ago:

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Among others I have seen. Search this site for Montana DNR or similar.

Scott

[fishtail]

Here is the link:

http://www.m715zone.com/vb/pages/man...st_convert.pdf

Scott