John ED Renstrom
PCS Member
the body behind the quarter glass is different to. the pillar is a lot bigger then the Dixie one.
1954-1957 oldsmobile pro cars
- Thread starter Rocky Fluegge
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Hello again everyone... i've received alot of emails concerning the '56 Olds ambulance in these initial posts. Will try to track down the info on it for you but if I remember right the guy was using it as a shed... and wants like $3500 for it or something like that. I'll email those interested ASAP & do have lots of pictures of it still, from all angles. When my PC crashed a few months ago the info was lost, but pix were saved on a flash drive! Correct point that it is the one from Fremont Speedway... the owner said he pulled it out of an old building @ the speedway.
$3500 does not seem out of line Dwayne given the rarity. Thought the price would have been higher given what little you previously mentioned of it.
@ least 2 here are chompin' at the bit... Find that contact info and this '56 finds a better home.
@ least 2 here are chompin' at the bit... Find that contact info and this '56 finds a better home.
Jeremy D. Ledford
PCS Volunteer Chapter President
The Name Game 2010, Dixie Coach Company, Lebanon, Tennessee.
Below will be photos taken by the Dixie Coach Company operators back in 1956 of a few of the Dixie Oldsmobile's being built, posed and delivered. All scanned at 300 dpi as requested! More to follow!!!
Below will be photos taken by the Dixie Coach Company operators back in 1956 of a few of the Dixie Oldsmobile's being built, posed and delivered. All scanned at 300 dpi as requested! More to follow!!!
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Jeremy D. Ledford
PCS Volunteer Chapter President
Jeremy D. Ledford
PCS Volunteer Chapter President
Dixie Coach Company.
Here is another photo of a Dixie combination coach being delivered to an unknown funeral director and his wife (the couple on the right). The couple to the left is one of the dixie Coach Company founders Perry Lanius and his wife Francis. Perry also owned and operated Perry's M-M Sales a Miller-Meteor Distributor also in Lebanon Tennessee. OK, ya''ll see the little emblem that says DIXIE on the fender in the delivery shot and faintly in the other photo's? Wanna know what it looks like? See the photo just under the deliver shot of the 56 Dixie Combo!
Here is another photo of a Dixie combination coach being delivered to an unknown funeral director and his wife (the couple on the right). The couple to the left is one of the dixie Coach Company founders Perry Lanius and his wife Francis. Perry also owned and operated Perry's M-M Sales a Miller-Meteor Distributor also in Lebanon Tennessee. OK, ya''ll see the little emblem that says DIXIE on the fender in the delivery shot and faintly in the other photo's? Wanna know what it looks like? See the photo just under the deliver shot of the 56 Dixie Combo!
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John ED Renstrom
PCS Member
better then a soap opera. cant what to spend my dime to go to the movie to see the next episode of tom Mix. those are with out a doubt a nice set of pictures . did you notice the construction photo. they spliced the car most likely in the center of the of the front door pillar. slid the body back added there big door and most likely the other half of the pillar. keeping the factory dog leg and wheel house. then it would look like the next step would be to
add the filler panel to the cut out were the rear door would have been. put the rear door back in place and you could have had a 6 door. seabert did them in about the same way. except they just took a left front door put it on the right back wards and vice vers. here are the two cars togather
add the filler panel to the cut out were the rear door would have been. put the rear door back in place and you could have had a 6 door. seabert did them in about the same way. except they just took a left front door put it on the right back wards and vice vers. here are the two cars togather
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John ED Renstrom
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I now notice the rust forming were the plug was put in in the one from Ohio.
you can see the seams of plug were the paint has weathered off.
you can see the seams of plug were the paint has weathered off.
Cary Livingston
Southeastern Chapter President
Just to fuel the debate....I'm sticking with Comet (not saying it couldnt be a Dixie) for the following reasons.
1) Rear side glass ambulance etchings (or decals).
2) Rear door drip moulding. Note the style on the pics Jeremy provided against the only good rear shot I have of any Comet (as both the Dixies and Comet are incredibly rare.)
3) The design and stature of the upper rear door hinge. Both have a very pronounced upper hinge but the Comets is angled a bit differently.
Thanks for posting the scans but now more questions are bugging me. If one studies the rear loading doors on both coachbulders cars they look identical. Yes I factored in they are both probably sedan delivery rear doors. The one side shot of the Dixie being built shows a rear side door that appears to me to be "pre assembled" . A Dixie and a Comet look so much alike who else would fathom a guess that Dixie was buying some pieces from Comet? As the debate continues, this is the kinda stuff that I love.....studying the infinite details which makes some of these "oddities" different. Miller Meteors, Superiors etc are a dime a dozen....
1) Rear side glass ambulance etchings (or decals).
2) Rear door drip moulding. Note the style on the pics Jeremy provided against the only good rear shot I have of any Comet (as both the Dixies and Comet are incredibly rare.)
3) The design and stature of the upper rear door hinge. Both have a very pronounced upper hinge but the Comets is angled a bit differently.
Thanks for posting the scans but now more questions are bugging me. If one studies the rear loading doors on both coachbulders cars they look identical. Yes I factored in they are both probably sedan delivery rear doors. The one side shot of the Dixie being built shows a rear side door that appears to me to be "pre assembled" . A Dixie and a Comet look so much alike who else would fathom a guess that Dixie was buying some pieces from Comet? As the debate continues, this is the kinda stuff that I love.....studying the infinite details which makes some of these "oddities" different. Miller Meteors, Superiors etc are a dime a dozen....
Jeremy D. Ledford
PCS Volunteer Chapter President
What I would LOVE to see is a good rear interior shot of the car in Ohio or at least one with the rear door open. I have a good shot of the rear interior of a Dixie here! I was told during my initial interviews with some of the former Dixie Coach shop guys that they did buy the rear door frames from GM truck plant in Indianapolis. Didn't mention anything about the doors though.
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PCS Volunteer Chapter President
Sorry Jeremy the photos I sent are all there was, and an interior shot would be a coach full of junk as you can kinda see from the pix sent to you this morning. After making a couple phone calls this morning I have shared what i've been able to learn on the '56 Olds ambo plus the 9 pix I have with those who wrote. Also offered to go retrieve it for his price plus $100 for my gas to haul it from Fremont to Bucyrus, so those interested can pick it up here @ my shop where I can get it inside from the weather until you come pick it up without an inflated price. Yeah it's scary buying something sight-unseen, but someone who really wants to save it will jump. I don't want to take on this project Olds but am willing to retrieve it for someone who cares enough to revive it, it's worth the hassle to me to see it go to a good home, this old girl has sat outside neglected for too long as it is.
After talking to my buddy in Fremont, I don't recommend tire-kickers or photo hounds to start poking around the owner's property. The coaches' location is no secret, but as Russell stated in his post on this coach (page #7) the man doesn't take kindly to strangers or lowball offers.
After talking to my buddy in Fremont, I don't recommend tire-kickers or photo hounds to start poking around the owner's property. The coaches' location is no secret, but as Russell stated in his post on this coach (page #7) the man doesn't take kindly to strangers or lowball offers.
Jeremy D. Ledford
PCS Volunteer Chapter President
Thanks for sending me the pics Dwayne! But judging about the way the owner is and how he may act and a few phone calls I've had on this coach I prolly should "back off" on it at this time. I do appreciate what you Attili and Russell have shared about this coach.
Hey guys, if it ever QUITS SNOWING here, I'll try to get over there this weekend and see if I can schmooze the guy a little. Maybe get a few photos in the process. I won't let him know there are multiple parties interested. No point in getting into a "bidding war" over this piece. I'll let you know how it goes.
PS: "global warming" my a$$, we've picked up 7+" of snow since early this morning, supposed to snow all night into tomorrow. THEN the wind is supposed to start blowing at 30+ . Anybody seen Al Gore lately, I'd like to have a little "chat" with him.
PS: "global warming" my a$$, we've picked up 7+" of snow since early this morning, supposed to snow all night into tomorrow. THEN the wind is supposed to start blowing at 30+ . Anybody seen Al Gore lately, I'd like to have a little "chat" with him.
I'll have to agree...
Jeremy D. Ledford
PCS Volunteer Chapter President
Comet it is!!!!!!!!!! Another hope dashed! Just hope Dixie exsisted!
Dana Bennett
PCS Life Member
something that I am curious about is why would a coach builder who is "modifying" an existing body choose to use a 4 door sedan rather than a stationwagon?? In one of jeremys photos of the partially built Olds you can see the steel panel behind where the rear seat would have been.
ALSO, in the Sunday paper there is usually a car section with a car picture and a short story about the vehicle and the current owner, how and why they have it and such, not extremely detailed but usually a nice story!! A few years ago I cut one out that was of (I believe) a '58 oldsmobile flowercar!!! I have the article but just not sure where!! I had never seen an Oldsmobile flowercar and i think it looked very sharp!!! and I do believe it was made that way and not a hearse/ambulance conversion into a flowercar. does anyone else have a picture??
Dana Bennett.
ALSO, in the Sunday paper there is usually a car section with a car picture and a short story about the vehicle and the current owner, how and why they have it and such, not extremely detailed but usually a nice story!! A few years ago I cut one out that was of (I believe) a '58 oldsmobile flowercar!!! I have the article but just not sure where!! I had never seen an Oldsmobile flowercar and i think it looked very sharp!!! and I do believe it was made that way and not a hearse/ambulance conversion into a flowercar. does anyone else have a picture??
Dana Bennett.
I don't know the reason, however, I can surmise that it must have been a matter of cost. If they were going to be cutting the car up and adding a roof section and lengthening the body, why buy a station wagon which cost considerably more than a basic 4 door sedan. I know that C/B build ambulances on a station wagon body, but they didn't lengthen them. My 1963 Pinner Chrysler started off as a 4 door sedan, and all 4 doors were modified to be longer and higher, and the car was stretched almost 2 feet. They didn't use the side or rear glass, nor the trunk lid, so all these parts were just wasted money. I will ask Jack Pinner if he can shed some light on this for us.
Rocky Fluegge
PCS Member
olds wagon
With oldsmobile there was a stretch that oldsmobile did not make any wagons i think it was from 1953 to 1956 they did not have any wagons. They started back up with them in 1957 the fiesta wagon i believe. I know they ran the fake wood made of steel on the 1950,s but im not sure if they ran that style to 52 like chevy.
With oldsmobile there was a stretch that oldsmobile did not make any wagons i think it was from 1953 to 1956 they did not have any wagons. They started back up with them in 1957 the fiesta wagon i believe. I know they ran the fake wood made of steel on the 1950,s but im not sure if they ran that style to 52 like chevy.