Professional Oldsmobiles
#4
A few months back I went out of the neighborhood the back way and there sat a 69 Cotner-Bevington Combination in someone's driveway. Pretty sure it saw ambulance service as it was a high-top and painted red and white. I only saw it the one time so I guess it was a visitor. Still cool to see the Oldsmobile professional cars. I had thought they were all on Ninety Eight chassis but I see you found some on Cutlass chassis.
Passenger car based ambulances did the job for many years until the government got into it with minimum specs for ambulances, and after that, nothing but truck-based rigs.
Passenger car based ambulances did the job for many years until the government got into it with minimum specs for ambulances, and after that, nothing but truck-based rigs.
#8
Back in the 60's, funeral homes operated the ambulances. I remember in 1966 when I was working for a Buick dealer, one of the local funeral homes that had ambulance service bought a 66 Buick Special Wagon to use as an ambulance. It was special ordered so they could get the color they used on all their vehicles at the time which was a medium blue used on 57 Cadillacs. The dealership mounted the light bar and siren supplied by the funeral home and that was about it. I don't think they even had anything in the back to strap the stretcher down. That is a long way from today.
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