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.