High top vs Low Top

[John Royark JR]

Either a limo, or a "hurst". I can't tell you how many guys I have talked to who refer to a funeral coach as a "hurst"!

Abe

Ya, that too.

 

[Joe Van Volkenburg]

I agree w/ Josh Low Tops look classy. Memorial Ambulance the firm in which I worked had only 2 low tops from 1965 M+M bought new in 1965 w/ grimes lights and a 1968 M+M w/ tunnel lights. We bought it from a fire company a Conn. All of our "cars" as we called them w/ the exception of the 1965 were bought from volunteer fire departments or from a ambulance dealer who took the car i trade. The trend as Steve write was the fire departments were buying high tops. Low tops were rare. Over all if you look at the records from the 3 companies more combos were sold then anything else. In buffalo and Niagara Falls they were never referred to as low tops or high tops but as low boys and high boys. I have been always corrected by PCS people-but when I started in the business at age 14 years old that's what they referred to them as. Steve Lofton's photo essay on Classy Cadillacs on this site confirms what I have maintained here and what Steve Licktman writes above.