56 Superior Combination

[Tim Prieur]

https://www.hemmings.com/classifieds/dealer/pontiac/starchief/2478068.html?refer=alert&utm_source=alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2021-04-06

Found this on Hemming's. Anyone know its background? Correct me if I am wrong, but the desklight was not an option for the rear compartment in 56.

 

[Bill Head]

it was not an option, and the top seems out of place

 

[Steve Loftin]

Combination, not ambulance (noted as such in the description).

 

[Kurt Arends]

Mayberry never would have had a Pontiac ambulance! It would definitely have been a Siebert Ford!

 

[Abe Bush]

Mayberry never would have had a Pontiac ambulance! It would definitely have been a Siebert Ford!

I agree Kurt, as Ford provided all the cars on the Andy Griffith show during its entire run.

 

[Bill Marcy]

I respectfully disagree about there only being Fords on the show, here are two examples;

I saw an episode where the funeral director was mad, because people were hanging around on the sidewalk in front of his establishment, at the same time, a black 52-ish Superior Cadillac hearse pulled up.

Another scene features an old 40s-ish limo of GM, I don't remember what it was, but it had a sign proclaiming Bobby Fleet and His Band With A Beat on it.

 

[Abe Bush]

I respectfully disagree about there only being Fords on the show, here are two examples;

I saw an episode where the funeral director was mad, because people were hanging around on the sidewalk in front of his establishment, at the same time, a black 52-ish Superior Cadillac hearse pulled up.

Another scene features an old 40s-ish limo of GM, I don't remember what it was, but it had a sign proclaiming Bobby Fleet and His Band With A Beat on it.

Actually, Bill, you are right and I respectfully agree with you. Thank you for pointing that out! Your memory jolted mine, as I now remember another episode where supposedly the governor's driver parked in front of the Sheriff's office where parking wasn't allowed, and the governor's limo was I think a '59 Caddy 75. So maybe the production company had a gentleman's agreement with Ford that professional cars were exempt from their product placement contract!

 

[Ron Devies]

It sure looks like the same car that was at the last Carnation Car Show in 2019 and at Bob Smith's Anniversary Celebration near Dover a few years ago. I had wrote the guy who owned it about bringing it to Mohican and apparently he may have sold it.

 

[Bill Marcy]

I was told the former owner traded it in on a truck.

 

[Ron Devies]

Well in my opinion that was a bone head move but I am bias to the pro car