James Fischer
PCS Member
This week-end was the Ripon Emergency Vehicle Show.....
PCS was represented by myself in my 1972 Cadillac Superior ambulance and fellow member Tom Shafer in his 1975 Cadillac Miller-Meteor "Medic 5" ambulance.....
Tom was deservedly given 3rd Place in the ambulance class and I was VERY happy to recieve 1st Place !!
It was a beautiful fall week-end in the central part of the valley....\
An awesome code 3 parade thru the town of Ripon was held before the awards were given out back at the community center.....
There were aprx 156 Emergency vehicles in the parade.....upon returning to the show we saw one of the ambulances still sitting with a tow truck in front of it.......The ambulance was a 1972 MM belonging to AMR driven by 2 of their "lady" employees.....
They told us the rig would not start,and was running VERY hot as in steaming and hissing all the way from the San Francisco area (130+ miles away).....they did not stop at any point,and said the engine was losing power as they got closer to the show earlier Saturday and was knocking and pinging....but they figured they could get to the show...well they got there but they were not leaving....not in the rig anyway......
They said that the rig had been sitting all year,and they just put gas in it and left ....
Here are a few pictures of the show......
and more can be seen on :
http://s1078.photobucket.com/albums/w486/nurgin/?action=view¤t=DSCN2156.jpg
PCS was represented by myself in my 1972 Cadillac Superior ambulance and fellow member Tom Shafer in his 1975 Cadillac Miller-Meteor "Medic 5" ambulance.....
Tom was deservedly given 3rd Place in the ambulance class and I was VERY happy to recieve 1st Place !!
It was a beautiful fall week-end in the central part of the valley....\
An awesome code 3 parade thru the town of Ripon was held before the awards were given out back at the community center.....
There were aprx 156 Emergency vehicles in the parade.....upon returning to the show we saw one of the ambulances still sitting with a tow truck in front of it.......The ambulance was a 1972 MM belonging to AMR driven by 2 of their "lady" employees.....
They told us the rig would not start,and was running VERY hot as in steaming and hissing all the way from the San Francisco area (130+ miles away).....they did not stop at any point,and said the engine was losing power as they got closer to the show earlier Saturday and was knocking and pinging....but they figured they could get to the show...well they got there but they were not leaving....not in the rig anyway......
They said that the rig had been sitting all year,and they just put gas in it and left ....
Here are a few pictures of the show......
and more can be seen on :
http://s1078.photobucket.com/albums/w486/nurgin/?action=view¤t=DSCN2156.jpg
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