Guardian ambulance

[Jim Staruk]

I was just reading Tom McPherson's book on the Miller-Meteor professional cars and came across the Guardian ambulance. What a neat ambulance! Are there any of these still around?

[Sarah Snook]

You're going to have to look a long time to find a Guardian. Bruce Biancalana had one that scrapped (still bummed you didn't let me know beforehand - I totally would have bought it, Bruce) and I know of one other that was basically a parts car. Haven't looked for it lately to see if it's still there though. I'd have to do some searching. That's all the luck that I've had with finding one in the last decade.

[Adam Borkat]

There was a '61 or '62 Guardian in the midwest recently. New Mexico I think. We talked about it here at some point, but I can't find the thread or pictures of it. Anyone remember this car?

[Dan Brintlinger]

Years ago, I had a letter from a man in Pennsylvania who had owned one, but lost it in a divorce..........he was in a nursing home when I contacted him, and he had lost track of it. I think it was a '60.

I still have the original '60 M/M factory brochure for the unit, a huge piece of paper.

By the way everyone, New Mexico is not in the Midwest....................

[Adam Borkat]

Originally Posted by Dan Brintlinger

By the way everyone, New Mexico is not in the Midwest....................

Right, and I did mean southwest. That's what happens when I type before drinking my coffee at this hour.

[Tony Blair]

Originally Posted by Jim Staruk

I was just reading Tom McPherson's book on the Miller-Meteor professional cars and came across the Guardian ambulance. What a neat ambulance! Are there any of these still around?

Apparently, there was a 62 Guardian in a junkyard in Arizona at some point in the past. Who knows if it was saved. Wish I had known about it. I would have snatched it up in a New York second.

http://misterw.com/Hearses/1962CadillacAmbulance.html

[Jim Staruk]

Here's a sales catalogue for sale now on EBay for a 1962 Guardian. Looks like this is the closest I'll ever get to a real one!

http://cgi.ebay.com/1962-cadillac-am...item4aa4d34a17

[Steve Loftin]

I couldn't find this car anywhere else on this site. I wish the image was sharper, but it was scanned from a print that was made from a copy negative:

7th District R.S. (Shady Side, MD)
1962 Guardian

http://www.sdvrs59.com/index.cfm?mws=public.home

(SL collection)

[James Douglas]

I'm tracking one down thats supposedly rumored to be in Western Kansas out on a ranch in a field under a tarp. Possibly used as a hunting camper but overall still in decent shape just missing the lights and equipment. It's south of Dodge City is all I know at this time.

I have an email into a guy in Chicago who is sharp as a tack at 90 years of age who owned the ambulance service where it was rumored through a person who is now deceased that this company which this guy owned had purchased a special "one off" 1969 MM "high-Boy" that had a special bubble roof built by MM and overhanging rear roof lip just like the original MM Guardians did. There is an interesting back story on this car and the guy and his company. He might even have some old MM files and information which is part of the story.

I am waiting to hear back from him after sending him a long list of questions to verify this claim or to dispel it. I also have his phone number but wanted to wait until after the holiday to call him. In my original email to his daughter she shared with me photos of their fleet from the 20's thru thru the 70's with some very interesting vehicles including a really neat carved panel hearse I have never seen before. I also think these images might never have been posted on line before and I am awaiting their permission to post them and their company history.

They did share with me me a neat picture of another one of their new (at the time) 1969 MM which is rather odd since it has the tunnel light configuration and not the standard light configuration or a common color combination. Heck at first I thought it was a Cotner Bevington on a Cadillac chassis. at any rate I am not one of those who is so secretive about the information and as soon as I hear something I plan to post it.

[Chris Elzie]

Originally Posted by James Douglas

I'm tracking one down thats supposedly rumored to be in Western Kansas out on a ranch in a field under a tarp. Possibly used as a hunting camper but overall still in decent shape just missing the lights and equipment. It's south of Dodge City is all I know at this time.

I have an email into a guy in Chicago who is sharp as a tack at 90 years of age who owned the ambulance service where it was rumored through a person who is now deceased that this company which this guy owned had purchased a special "one off" 1969 MM "high-Boy" that had a special bubble roof built by MM and overhanging rear roof lip just like the original MM Guardians did. There is an interesting back story on this car and the guy and his company. He might even have some old MM files and information which is part of the story.

I am waiting to hear back from him after sending him a long list of questions to verify this claim or to dispel it. I also have his phone number but wanted to wait until after the holiday to call him. In my original email to his daughter she shared with me photos of their fleet from the 20's thru thru the 70's with some very interesting vehicles including a really neat carved panel hearse I have never seen before. I also think these images might never have been posted on line before and I am awaiting their permission to post them and their company history.

They did share with me me a neat picture of another one of their new (at the time) 1969 MM which is rather odd since it has the tunnel light configuration and not the standard light configuration or a common color combination. Heck at first I thought it was a Cotner Bevington on a Cadillac chassis. at any rate I am not one of those who is so secretive about the information and as soon as I hear something I plan to post it.

It could be a pinner.