00:02
Andrew: My name’s Andrew Leider. I have one of the world’s largest collection of
antique firetrucks.
00:10
Andrew: I guess it’s a benign hobby.
00:17
COMM: 62­year­old Andrew started collecting fire trucks 13 years ago ­ and now
has 450 of them.
00:27
COMM: His collection is now worth a staggering one million dollars.
00:32
Andrew: I worked with the firefighters on 9/11 and I greatly appreciated their
heroism and I felt they should be honoured by purchasing one antique firetruck in
their number.
00:44
Andrew: I started with one truck and I then purchased a second truck a few months
later and they became an addiction.
00:54
Andrew: Each one is an individual industrial art.
01:01
COMM: Andrew sources the trucks from fire departments from around the US.
01:05
COMM: He bought some at scrap value, but others costs tens of thousands of
dollars.
01:10
Andrew: I have a couple of favourites. The arins fox is probably the rarest of all the
trucks, they’re considered the Roles Royce of firetrucks.
01:18
Andrew: This is a mid 1960s Porsche which was manufactured in Kenosha,
Wisconsin. Thousand gallon a minute pumper.
01:26
Andrew: These are all the pump controls. You got your pressure governor, this is
your main suction and then you’ve got the outlets here to hook up your hoses.
01:40
COMM: Some of the vehicles are roadworthy, and it’s no wonder Andrew draws
attention when Andrew takes them out for a spin.
01:52
Andrew: It’s a lot of fun to drive the trucks. It’s actually more fun to see people
looking at the trucks and appreciating them.
02:02
Woman: When I first pulled in it caught my attention, I was like wow, you know,
that’s got to be extremely old but in very, very good condition.
02:11
Woman: And I think it’s fantastic when you think of how far trucks have come over
the generations.
02:15
COMM: Next on the agenda for Andrew is sharing his beloved trucks with the wide
world by setting up museums in New York and Pennsylvania.