While working with the "agent" of the owner, the owner got impatient and sold this car for $475 . She had this all happend in less than a week from start to finish. The husband had died, and the widow just wanted everything gone.........
One of these was sold to Enid Ambulance Service (now Life EMS), a private service in Enid, OK. They later sold it to Major County EMS in Fairview, OK. This car now sits in a salvage yard in Fairview (see second photo, from 1994).
Phillips-Robinson is a well known funeral home around here! P&R was well known for "tactical driving skills" back in the ambulance days! They rode those cars had and put them up wet! Back in the 1960's they wrecked three cars in one night, two ambulances and a combintion, totaling one of them out literaly driving it though a service station north of downtown Nashville!
Paul,
If it's in Michigan I may be able to look at it. And you would be safe, if I bring ANYTHING else home I would need an ambulance......so says the Mrs.
Do you (or anyone else here on the board) have any photos of the '70 Pontiacs, while they were in service with the PRFH, that you could share with us?
While working with the "agent" of the owner, the owner got impatient and sold this car for $475 . She had this all happend in less than a week from start to finish. The husband had died, and the widow just wanted everything gone.........
Wow, Someone got a great deal. I would have paid the asking price just to have the rear bumper.
These cars were all red when P&R owned them. These were the cars that Rob had the speed monitor gadgets mounted in. The drivers were not allowed to drive over 50 or 60 mph and if a driver slipped and did, he was called up on the carpet. If memory serves me correctly the cars they traded off for these were 67 RED Cadillac combinations with a model 17 on each corner and I want to think a Q on top as a model 28 was not loud enough. Their funeral caoches were silver with black tops. Phillips-Robinson always ran Superior cars. They were in competition (fierce) with Pettus-Owen and Woods Funeral Home and Buena Vista Funeral Home. These three were arch rivals and the speed exerted was to beat the competition to the call, not to the hospital with the patient. Most all other funeral homes provided ambulance service but these were the big ones, the rest were "normal".