After a year's worth of repair and refurbishment by automotive students at Surry Community College, Dobson Fire Department's 1958 fire truck left the Dobson campus one recent morning on a journey to its new home - Tractor Brown's Museum and Event Center in Yadkinville.
For several years, the truck was actively used in the training process, but as new technology and trucks were updated, the "vintage" truck was used in a comparison of the foundation of firefighting to the updated equipment.
For more than a year, the college’s automotive technology students and instructors have been working to restore the truck to running order, a task which instructor David Weavil said was monumental. “It was a good experience for the students,” he said. “The brakes didn’t work, and it didn’t crank. It’s sheer size and weight were a challenge in getting it to the shop from the training center.”