Classy Cadillacs

[Steve Loftin]

More '72s from the 'burbs

Schiller Park F.D.'s '72

Melrose Park F.D.'s '72

Rosemont, IL

Mt. Prospect, IL

It sure is good to see these cars with their rockers intact, skirts in place, and riding on correct 8.90/N78x15 tires!

(SL collection)

 

[Steve Loftin]

This girl gets a post of her own because, without a doubt, she's the prettiest ambulance I've ever seen. A Pennsylvania PCS member (and ambulance dealer) brought her to the 1989 meet in Gaithersburg. A Texas member in attendance bought the car and hired me to deliver it to Port Arthur when the meet was over.

Pleasant Gap, PA
1969 Rescuer

(SL photo)

 

[Anthony J. Rzucidlo - Deceased - 1953-2019]

Sharp looking rig.

 

[Scott A. Anderson]

Beautiful car. Does anyone know what the paint colors are?

 

[Josh Gentry]

This girl gets a post of her own because, without a doubt, she's the prettiest ambulance I've ever seen. A Pennsylvania PCS member (and ambulance dealer) brought her to the 1989 meet in Gaithersburg. A Texas member in attendance bought the car and hired me to deliver it to Port Arthur when the meet was over.

Pleasant Gap, PA
1969 Rescuer

(SL photo)

I have to agree. That has to be the classiest ambulance I've ever seen. That thing is just beautiful. Does anyone know if its still around in the PCS?

Josh

 

[Brendan Martin]

This girl gets a post of her own because, without a doubt, she's the prettiest ambulance I've ever seen. A Pennsylvania PCS member (and ambulance dealer) brought her to the 1989 meet in Gaithersburg. A Texas member in attendance bought the car and hired me to deliver it to Port Arthur when the meet was over.

Pleasant Gap, PA
1969 Rescuer

(SL photo)

That is beautiful. What a color scheme.

 

[Tony Karsnia - Deceased - 1971-2020]

1975 Superior Cadillac Crown Sovereign hearse. This was an endloader with a carpeted rear floor. Owned by Collier Funeral Home in Louisiana, MO.

1967 Miller-Meteor Cadillac Classic 48 ambulance. Photographed several years ago at a Fire / EMS fest in Illinois. No other information known about this sharp looking rig.

(Larri Dirks photos)

 

[Jeremy D. Ledford]

Taken at Dixie Coach in Lebanon Tennessee. Stock trade in photo late 1960's.

1965 Miller-Meteor Cadillac Classic Duplex.

Perry Lanius photo.

(Ledford Collection)

 

[Steve Loftin]

Beautiful car. Does anyone know what the paint colors are?

Gold and some sort of maroon/burgundy; I wish I'd made a note of the paint numbers.

 

[Steve Lichtman]

This girl gets a post of her own because, without a doubt, she's the prettiest ambulance I've ever seen. A Pennsylvania PCS member (and ambulance dealer) brought her to the 1989 meet in Gaithersburg. A Texas member in attendance bought the car and hired me to deliver it to Port Arthur when the meet was over.

I agree. It was even nicer looking in person. What did happen to it, does "the other-other-Steve" still have it?

 

[Steve Loftin]

The ambulance service in Crawford Co. (Girard, KS) was operated by sheriff's deputies between when the funeral homes bailed and an EMS system could be organized.

The three beauties shown here were on loan from Bob Dietz until he could deliver a new fleet that had been ordered. Several deputies were at the courthouse that day taking an EMT class:

1970 Rescuer
1970 Lifeliner
1971 Volunteer

The Lifeliner was unusual because of the side warning lights, it's Unity Si-Tron siren, and a medical cabinet full of drawers instead of doors! It was a good-looking and well-lit car with its Solar Ray front tunnels and properly-trimmed #184-H Power Lights.

(SL photos, 1977)

 

[Josh Gentry]

I still think this is one of the classiest M-M's I've ever seen. 1965 M-M Combination.

Josh

From the Gentry PCS Event Photo Collection.

 

[Tony Karsnia - Deceased - 1971-2020]

Hearse hunting photos

From a Saturday morning, Feb. 1988:
1974 Superior Cadillc Sovereign: Vigen FH, Hawley, MN

From a hunting trip to North Dakota in June, 1990:
1989 Superior Cadillac commercial glass Sovereign: Amundson FH, Grand Forks, ND

(Karsnia photos)

 

[Steve Loftin]

Wisconsin wanderings

1964 Eureka flower car (one of three built that year) owned by a collector in the Milwaukee area
1960 Crown Royale Limousine combination from Janesville
1971 S/C 54" from Oak Creek
1961 Sentinel at Lake Geneva Raceway

(SL collection)

 

[Steve Loftin]

Dehnel's - West Allis, WI

Dick Dehnel used to own and operate Dehnel's Livery, Superior-Central A.S., a towing company, and U-Haul rental services from his facility in suburban Milwaukee. He generally used M-M coaches and had a brand new '77 3-way in the garage when I visited in December, 1976. He always liked S&S ambulances and bought them used whenever he could find a good one:

1968 S&S 55"
1969 S&S 48" (ex-Superior A.S., Wyandotte, MI)
1967 S&S 55" (note storage compartment in rear fender)
1970 S&S 55"
1970 S&S 43" (ex-Superior A.S., Flint, MI)
1971 M-M 3-way

WARNING - THREAD DEVIATION - WARNING

1970 C/B 48"
1970 S/P 48"

(SL photos)

 

[John ED Renstrom]

you look at these pictures of cars in service and you really do understand how pampered our pets are. wheel covers missing skirts off. the winter accumulation of stuff on it. snow tires in the rear run year round and all. the in service pictures you have collected really so the hard use the ambulance did take.

 

[Steve Loftin]

Among other things, I've collected funeral home and ambulance service postcards for years. Here are two Cadillacs from those cards, cropped from larger views of the funeral homes:

McClave F.H. (Steubenville, OH)
1960 Sentinel

Alhiser-Wilson Mortuary (Escondido, CA)
1956 Meteor

 

[Steve Loftin]

N. Warren, PA
1970 54" Rescuer

W. Annapolis, MD
1967 51" Rescuer
(Those awful grille lights have to go, but I sure like this car's colors!)

(SL collection)

 

[Steve Loftin]

Miller F.H. (Vandalia, IL)
1969 Sovereign Landaulet endloader

Froelich F.H. (El Paso, IL)
1976 Sovereign Limousine combination

(SL photos)

 

[Steve Loftin]

Among other things, I've collected funeral home and ambulance service postcards for years. Here are two Cadillacs...

...and four more:

Tri-Boro F.A.S. (Seaside Park, NJ)
1953 and 1956 Meteors

Chatham, NJ
1974 Criterions
I guess these girls replaced a set of 1970 Lifeliners:

http://www.chathamemergencysquad.org/index_history.htm