1973 Cotner Bevington Olds Ambulance

[Bill Marcy]

I hope its okay to post this here, obviously it is not mine. I just happened to stumble across it in my internet travels. Does anybody know anything about this ambulance?

https://thevaultms.com/inventory/1973-oldsmobile-ambulance-classic-car-2/

 

[Abe Bush]

Beautiful car, other than the non-period 9/11/01 stickers on it. Looks like it was originally a combo with the floor rollers. I like the Chicago FD colors she’s wearing.

 

[Bill Marcy]

I was actually thinking that she is actually a military ambulance originally, but I could be mistaken.

 

[Peter Grave - Deceased - 1938 - 2022]

I vote Combo. Too much wood grain to be Military.

 

[John ED Renstrom]

All the military ambulances were hightops. This one is a figment of someones imagination. You look at it it would be impossible to do any thing in it. All they did is cram as many things in a low top car Inside and out as they could but with no thought of fuction. The flip panals say it is a combo set up as a ambulance.

 

[Peter Grave - Deceased - 1938 - 2022]

Totally agree Ed but it would make a neat movie prop. The rest is fiction.

 

[Bill Marcy]

You may know that I have poor vision, so initially I thought this car had a raised roof, but after some of your comments and a long hard look, I agree, its a combo.

 

[Paul Steinberg]

Obviously they have no ambulance experience, otherwise, they would have known that the double sided spotlights are windshield pillar mounted. Lots of other mistakes, however, to the uneducated ambulance buyer, they will see this as the ambulance of their dreams.

 

[Abe Bush]

Bill it’s an understandable mirage, it looks like they screwed a back-board box onto the roof, possibly off an old criterion. In my opinion this unit is more tastefully done than Ecto, but nearly as many after-market bells & whistles added.

 

[Bill Marcy]

I think this car still has a good look about it, in spite of its incorrect appointments. In the authenticity department, it falls short, I know.

 

[Abe Bush]

I think this car still has a good look about it, in spite of its incorrect appointments. In the authenticity department, it falls short, I know.

With the exception of the period-incorrect stickers and the backboard box (and the incorrectly placed roof spotlights for their type), I agree with you, Bill. She is a sharp looking car for sure.

 

[Peter Grave - Deceased - 1938 - 2022]

Its an eye catcher and thank God not a Ghostbuster. The General Public would think a great example of the era. Makes me shudder to think of the roof leaking around the spotlights.

 

[Steve Loftin]

Laughable

:thumbsdown: :thumbsdown:

This is probably the most unauthentic ambulance conversion hack jobs I have ever seen. The sad part is the incorrect "support materials" that the owner displays when this car is in public.

Laughable--yet some unsuspecting buyer may thing he's getting the real thing. That is not laughable!

I photographed this combination, white over red, when it was owned by a Belleville, IL ambulance/livery service in 1993. I think it was originally blue.

 

[Steve Loftin]

Here's a related thread from three years ago:

http://www.professionalcarsociety.org/forums/showthread.php?t=20862&highlight=belleville