City Manager Tim Ogden has included the $350,000 vehicle as part of a spending plan for the fiscal year starting July 1.  

It will be purchased using the public safety endowment fund created from $7,000 a pop paid when building permits were issued for the Del Webb and Union Ranch neighborhoods in north Manteca. The fund also will pay for a $600,000 replacement fire engine, a $58,000 non-emergency fire vehicle, and a $44,000 police motorcycle.

"We have pumpers, we have the ladder trucks. We have a couple tankers," said Pete West, a member of the Old Dominion Antique Fire club. "And then we have some brush trucks which are typically jeeps or Broncos or smaller pickup trucks with a smaller pump and small water on them which are light enough to get out into the field or into the woods."  

While the antique vehicles are at least 25 years old, many are older and simply stayed in commission for decades.

For Pikesville volunteer firefighter Joseph D'antoni, his connection with the antique truck he brought to the rodeo is personal. It was the first fire truck he ever rode.