<![CDATA[Jalopnik: world's biggest]]> http://cache.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/jalopnik.com.png <![CDATA[Jalopnik: world's biggest]]> http://jalopnik.com/tag/world's biggest http://jalopnik.com/tag/world's biggest <![CDATA[ Monster 1937 International Fire Truck Auctioned For $26,000 ]]> We know all about Big Red; it's a monster-ized 1937 International fire truck that we first saw at the Woodward Dream Cruise. The beast weighs in at a whopping 30,000-pounds and measures 38-feet long; it's the world's heaviest and longest monster truck. But now it's just sold at the Palm Beach Barret-Jackson auction for— only $26,000. Now obviously this isn't a traditionally practical vehicle, but for sheer pounds of awesome-to-dollar value, we think this thing was a steal.

Big Red has a Cummins Turbo diesel engine connected to Allison automatic transmission with a Spicer transfer case. Those tires are 66 x 43 x 25. The 1937 body and frame are all original. Back in the day, this was the first truck to pump 600 gallons per minute. Amazing. [Barrett-Jackson]

]]> Jalopnik-373093 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:15:00 EDT Mark Arnold http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=373093&view=rss&microfeed=true