Anybody have any info on Yankee Conversions?

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Todd Merrifield

I was looking through the Suburban/Carryall thread and saw a few people mention Yankee. As far as I know it was a West Coast/California company that dealt mainly with fire trucks. It is also thought that they did the conversion on my ambulance.

I've heard it mentioned from time to time, bu searching the internet I come up with exactly ZERO information on them, aside from a listing that says next to nothing on coachbuilt.com, and one picture of a fire truck. I was hoping maybe somebody here might have some old print literature that has more information on them?
 
Todd,

Type Yankee Coach ambulance in the Google search box and you will get a lot of hits for various fire companies and ambulance services and thier Yankee Coach rigs. I drove a van conversion by them in the early 80's. I believe they were made in Pennsylvania.

R/ Jon
 
Forgot to mention, there is a company on the east coast, also called Yankee, which I believe is still in business and does the same thing, but I don't believe the companies are related? Yankee on the west coast was in business in the 50's, whereas the east coast company started in the 70's? I thought they were in Rhode Island...
 
Interesting bit of trivia about the movie Mother, Jugs and Speed:

"M, J & S" was made in 1976, from Fox Studios. The ambulance driven by "'Mother' Tucker" (Bill Cosby) was a Chevy-Patriot 63, made, before the headlights customization, by Yankee Coach.

Is it possible this company was still in business in the 70's? One would think the movie company would use a west coast provider, as they sourced every other vehicle in the movie from the west coast?
 
Yankee's were great units- we ran a lot of them - like Steve said they were high end but you could purchase their Municipal line at very competive prices- same quality just less bells and whistles- sad day when they stopped building- Kevin
 
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