The running boards were bent and twisted, the transmission was cracked, the engine needed to be rebuilt and the body resembled Swiss cheese. The Bucky Wagon was in bad shape, hadn?t been driven through the tunnel onto the field at Camp Randall Stadium since 2001 and, for about two years, was being stored under a tarp near the Goodman Softball Complex. But since 2010, the 9,000-pound antique but badly worn 1932 LaFrance fire engine has undergone a $750,000 transformation, the vast majority donated.
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