Now I'll be up all night flipping thru 76 pages of gorgeous pro cars. Thanks a lot !
"If you come to play, be prepared to pay!"
Classy Cadillacs
- Thread starter Steve Loftin
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"If you come to play, be prepared to pay!"
I believe that both of Liberty Road VFD's old Caddys ended up as rigs for the Randallstown Ambulance Service and repainted in a white over gold color. Randallstown Ambulance would become May Ambulance before being bought out by one of the larger national companies.
Oddly enough, I couldn't find a single picture of one of the prettiest 1964 Cadillac Superior combinations in the PCS (I'm probably a little biased). It's out in our garage. Since the photos were taken, the "lopsided" Beacon has been kind of squared away. As soon as time permits I'll cut the skirt on the "tornado" light I got from Doug.
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Shepard Ambulance
A 1962 Superior 48" in service with Shepard Ambulance in Seattle. Steve Loftin has posted two other photos in this thread of the same ambulance.
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Shepard ambulance at Century 21, 1962 by King County, WA, on Flickr[/img]
A 1962 Superior 48" in service with Shepard Ambulance in Seattle. Steve Loftin has posted two other photos in this thread of the same ambulance.
Shepard ambulance at Century 21, 1962 by King County, WA, on Flickr[/img]
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This car has evaded my camera for years. Throughout the 1990s it was usually blocked in the garage by building materials while various remodeling projects were going on. The last few times I've tried to photograph it on a sunny day, either everyone was on a funeral or it was being worked on. About two years ago, I was able to get these "grab" shots on my cell phone while the car was at a local tire shop. One of these days...
This was the last vehicle purchased by the firm's founder, the current owner's grandfather:
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For you downsized fans - sharp '79 MM at a car show in the UK from this past August via Zack S. Classic Cars on Flickr.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/zacks_classic_cars/9936018895/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/zacks_classic_cars/9936018895/
Nice looking M-M...the Graber-bodied Alvis next to it is spiffy too.
Peter Grave - Deceased - 1938 - 2022
PCS Member
Strange it is a 58 Fleetwood trunk emblem but the 58 Broadway Limited bottom 1/4 panel trim is not there perhaps removed by converter or car may have been a Coupe Deville at the start and they added the Fleetwood who knows
with out enough shown of the car it's all guess work. weather the builder started with a commercial chassis or not. but the use of the standard rear bumper suggest that they did not. there was a company doing the flower deck you set into a convertible around this time. the boot on it went out over the deck lid in this fashion. though I had the add but can't seam to find it in my random access
Martyn Donaldson
PCS Member
The "Flower Car" Atti posted evidently began life as a Fleetwood 75..
You're thinking of the very gorpy, chrome-laden '58 Sixty Special -
My personal taste leans toward the more restrained styling of the '57 version,
but I'm extremely biased
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John Royark JR
PCS Member
Ed, I also thought I had that ad saved but don't. I do know it is in an old TPC issue, now its jus digging through them to find it. It was a great idea, but don't think it really caught on. You would think one of those tops would surface by now.
I purchased this 1971 M-M from the Lower Frederick Regional Ambulance Corps (Spring Mount, PA) in the fall of 1981. I sold it a year or so later, and have no idea where it is today.
The first shot is of when I picked it up; the second, after I drove it home:
The first shot is of when I picked it up; the second, after I drove it home:
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Bedford Co. EMS - Shelbyville, TN
Both of these cars appear to be converted combinations:
http://www.bedfordems.com/history.html
Both of these cars appear to be converted combinations:
http://www.bedfordems.com/history.html
Jeremy D. Ledford
PCS Volunteer Chapter President
One in the second photo looks like this car that the Phillips-Robinson Company had in Nashville with a Federal Q added to front and Beacon Ray moved back to mid center of roof. .
Jeremy D. Ledford collection.
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notice thee are no belts on the gurney. sheet on the mattress blanket folded but no belts.
ED- Right, wrong or indifferent, a couple of the places I worked just used a zippered F-W cot cover to hold the patient, no seat belts. Seat belts did not come along until the '80's. I wish I could find a decent cot cover now.
We had the gray Ferno Washington belts (with the "paddle" handles) back in the very early 1970's.
the point I was trying to make was how we strive so hard to make it original. but we can't help but interject into the car what we do today. you look at the amount of equipment they carried in the car. not a lot. but they had provision for two pt and O2. something to stop the major bleeder thats about it. no belts or restraints shown
Here's a cool photo from Facebook. Burholme First Aid Corps in Philadelphia, with a fleet of '60 Superiors.
(My father an I, in our continuing quest for the odd and unusual, visited Burholme once in the late 1980s, when they were selling a mid-'50s camper trailer that was painted blue, used as a first aid station at events, and towed by a '58 Ford pickup. We didn't buy it, alas.)
Second photo from the website of Penfield Volunteer Ambulance in NY, a '66 M-M 48.
(My father an I, in our continuing quest for the odd and unusual, visited Burholme once in the late 1980s, when they were selling a mid-'50s camper trailer that was painted blue, used as a first aid station at events, and towed by a '58 Ford pickup. We didn't buy it, alas.)
Second photo from the website of Penfield Volunteer Ambulance in NY, a '66 M-M 48.
