Sad Pro-Cars

[Josh Gentry]

Caution, this might make some ambulance lovers sick.

From the Renstrom collection. This one realy hurts. Not only is it a ruined ambulance, but someone could have atleast used it for a parts car.

Josh

 

[Jonathon Fowers]

1970 Hearse/ambulance/combo made into a parade vehicle. Don't remember much about this one. Photo taken at the 2006 Frankenmuth Autofest in Frankenmuth, Michigan. Can anyone identify the coachbulider? Ambulance rear bumper + step?

someone on the nhaa owns that she got a limo to match it i dont know why when she cut the hearse but who knows

 

[John Royark JR]

A good idea is to upload them once to a public place like imageshack.us or photobucket or flickr then you can post them to any forum and have a safe back up in case the worst ever happens to the original. It might be time well spent in the long run seeing as pictures can age but the digital copy will be forever young hehe.

Still the problem is 15 mins each pic x a couple thousand pix = close to forever. And this is just counting the pix I personally took.

 

[Sarah Snook]

Here's a sad one that I saw at CW Coach a couple of years ago.

 

[Russell Street]

That looks like my old '73 from years gone by. I'll work on getting my photos scanned this weekend....promise.

From the Renstrom collection. This one realy hurts. Not only is it a ruined ambulance, but someone could have atleast used it for a parts car.

Josh

 

[John ED Renstrom]

remember a promise made is a debt unpaid. as the poem goes. one more of the why they do that bunch. this one is off e-bay was for sale in north Dakota if I remember right.

 

[Jean-Marc Dugas]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/zyphichore/20553616/in/photostream/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/zyphichore/20553652/in/photostream/

 

[Russell Street]

I posted it in the Pontiac thread

That looks like my old '73 from years gone by. I'll work on getting my photos scanned this weekend....promise.

 

[Todd Merrifield]

remember a promise made is a debt unpaid. as the poem goes. one more of the why they do that bunch. this one is off e-bay was for sale in north Dakota if I remember right.

Wow, if they can get 50 clowns in a Volkswagen I wonder how many fit in a hearse?

 

[Tony Karsnia - Deceased - 1971-2020]

A Criterion thrown away

This one makes me sick. This is the same car as my avatar photo. I found it like this in 1990 after it had been thrown out behind a mechanic's shop due to unpiad repair bills. The car's owner, a fella who was losing his ambulance service (not Murphy) had come back and stripped a bunch of equipment. I tried to buy the car at this point in time, but the title situation was a mess and the repair lien was large. The car was plenty rusty, but worth saving. Not long after I took this photo, the ambulance service owner (loser, was more like it) returned and stripped the rest of the equipment. I last saw this car in 1994 and it looked 10 times worse. If it hasn't been crushed yet, there can't be anything left of it now.

 

[Jeremy D. Ledford]

Here's a sad one that I saw at CW Coach a couple of years ago.

Was still there back during the M-M book signing in the late spring too. I got prolly one of the only few remaining good peices off of it on a trip up to Carl's a couple years back, the Henney name plate from the rear door sill that now sits on my bookcase in my den.

 

[Tony Karsnia - Deceased - 1971-2020]

Another M-M that bit the dust

I photographed this very tired and rusty '77 M-M landau 3-way in Sterling, IL in 2003. Looks like she was probably a stunning car in her day, with this unique paint scheme.

 

[Paul Steinberg]

From what I remember about this car a few years ago, it was a Craigslist offering. The seller sent me some pictures, and I was hoping to get some parts off the car. The only note that I have is the name Kelley attached to the file. In the end, I think it went to Pro Car heaven, with all its parts.

 

[Paul Steinberg]

Here is a Pontiac that someone sent me some pictures of at one time that they wanted to sell. Don't remember much about these either...

 

[Steve Loftin]

Criterion alert!

Appanoose County A.S. (Centerville, IA; private outfit)

This down-and-out '72 Lifeliner was photographed in 1994 just outside of Centerville, which is the the Appanoose County seat. Centerville is famous for its unique courthouse square, which is two blocks long on each side.

Here's a '74 Criterion (looks like an ex-Capital City rig) that was on the same property as the '72. That's my 1994 National/Chevrolet 4x4 Type I demonstrator in the background...new at the time!

(SL photos)

 

[Terry Broussard]

is that green and white one off of six feet under??

It was one I had thought I could save and has since been passed on to my friend for parts. I kept all of the Superior hardware for my Pontiac, but he took the glass and remaining rusty hulk.

 

[Brad Ross]

Hearse Trailer...

Trailer that looks to be made from a 1969 Miller Meteor hearse:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/roadsidepictures/223788113/

Courtesy of "Roadsidepictures" on Flickr.

 

[Jeremy D. Ledford]

Here's a couple photos of a 1982 Eureka Concours Cadillac at a Lebanon, TN area funeral home. The first shot was taken about 10 years ago when the car was still in service. The second photo is as it sits present day, not for sale.

(Jeremy D. Ledford photos)

 

[John ED Renstrom]

you got to love a man that would rather see it rot then someone else getting any use out of it. here is the 76 MM in the u-pull it yard in Oregon

 

[Jeremy D. Ledford]

Some Post War Cadillac pro-car photos taken about 10 years ago.

1. 1947-48 S&S Knickerbocker Cadillac limo style end loader, Lebanon, TN.
2. 1947-48 Meteor Landau end loader, Lebanon, TN.

Taken between 2000 and 2002.

The S&S sold at auction about five years ago.

(Jeremy D. Ledford photos)