At the corner of West 16th and Industrial Drive, a retired fire truck has been reborn as Erie’s most eccentric scrapyard sentinel—half emergency vehicle, half industrial folk art fever dream.

Parked proudly outside Lincoln Recycling, this patchwork beast of rust and whimsy is a rolling collage of metal signs, gears, pipes, and salvaged oddities. Its cab still bears the ghostly lettering of the City of Erie, but the flatbed has gone full steampunk—festooned with bicycle wheels, weight limit warnings, and scrollwork that feels like it was welded by a mad inventor with a poetic streak. It’s part sculpture, part roadside riddle, and all Weird Erie: a tribute to the beauty of reuse, the charm of chaos, and the stories that scrap can tell when given a second life.