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Post by 65cuda on Oct 11, 2007 19:00:28 GMT -5
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Post by benny on Oct 11, 2007 19:18:05 GMT -5
OMG
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Post by swi66 on Oct 12, 2007 5:28:16 GMT -5
Thinking of going free lance?
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Post by woodman3222 on Oct 12, 2007 11:33:11 GMT -5
Never seen a Pontiac. Always used a Caddy.
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Post by 65cuda on Oct 12, 2007 11:57:12 GMT -5
this is a rare one only 170 of these Pontiacs were ambulances most were caddys, I did see a late 50s Plymouth ambulance
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Post by 65cuda on Oct 12, 2007 11:59:00 GMT -5
but then again in the 50s they also used hearses as ambulances, so anything could of been an ambulance
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Post by swi66 on Oct 12, 2007 14:01:41 GMT -5
I'm pretty sure the same companies that did the conversions did both hearses an ambulances.
didnt flxible corp do a lot of the GMs?
Years ago I almost bought a 53 Pontiac hearse. It was at a junkyard in Sandhill, and had a running motor. I still had my original 53 pontiac 2-dr, with a torn apart motor. Between the 2 of them I could have made one...........Hearse had better body, and interior and a running drivetrain, front suspension was twisted underneath, most likely a ball joint let go. But I thought the hears would have been weird.....................
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Post by swi66 on Oct 12, 2007 14:02:17 GMT -5
Hey Ray....................The ambulance qualifies as "special interest".
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Post by 65cuda on Oct 12, 2007 18:51:58 GMT -5
I always liked the looks of the station wagon type ambulances, and they rode nice. I think that was the reason I wanted to be a Paramedic.
A company called Miller-Meteor built most of the hearses and ambulance bodys in the 70s. In the late 70s the dept of health made some changes to what an ambulance is supposed to carry, its the section 800 of the Dept of Health, this killed the station wagon type ambulances, they had no room, also the DOH made up new specs for ambulances, such as a patient on a back board or a stretcher has to able to exit from a side door if necessary, that was the final nail for the old type ambulances, thats why you see all these huge ambulances.
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Post by spanky on Oct 14, 2007 8:20:52 GMT -5
Damn, never seen one of those. Pretty sweet!
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Post by 65cuda on Oct 14, 2007 11:50:39 GMT -5
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Post by spanky on Oct 15, 2007 9:00:08 GMT -5
That's pretty cool, what is it, a Willys?
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