I'm a pretty big fan of the show (my family watches it often on COZI, and I had Randy Mantooth to do a Cameo recording for my wife for her birthday a few years ago), and I'm 99.9999% sure that this truck is bogus. I believe that one of the originals is at the
Los Angeles County Fire Museum. They would probably be the best people to verify whether this truck is the real deal.
Some crafty wording in the ad. But it says TV show ended in 1979. And they list this truck as a 1980.
My understanding from the ad was that this was a replica.
"Vehicle Details
This vehicle
which represented Squad 51 was one of several that were constructed by Universal crews and were accurate replicas of the units built in-house on stock 1970 Dodge D300 truck chassis' by LACoFD prior to the filming of "Emergency".
"...The
replica's accuracy is evident in that the white light atop the Federal Signal Twinsonic lightbar was part of the blueprint, but never installed by LAcoFD on its departmental units. "
