This is from the classified ad section of the September, 1964 issue of AMERICAN FUNERAL DIRECTOR. The El Camino conversion was done by the funeral home:
http://midwoodchapel.com/
http://midwoodchapel.com/
Bowtie beauties - procars on Chevy chassis
- Thread starter Steve Loftin
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Taken today in NJ. Clean National coach!
Beautiful coach. Wonder if it is in service on occasion, judging by the guy in the suit. Thanks for posting
NICE 1958 Chevy ambulance!
Earle, AR - 1960 parade
I mine eBay regularly for fire apparatus and procar items that should be in my collection. I recently found this one:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/151096226537?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1497.l2649
I could tell that one was of a procar, but couldn't enlarge it enough (in focus) to tell what it was. I knew it wasn't anything common, so I bought it to find out.
What we have here is a 1956 Memphis/Chevrolet combination with red parking light lenses and a Federal #17-B demountable beacon. Score!
I mine eBay regularly for fire apparatus and procar items that should be in my collection. I recently found this one:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/151096226537?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1497.l2649
I could tell that one was of a procar, but couldn't enlarge it enough (in focus) to tell what it was. I knew it wasn't anything common, so I bought it to find out.
What we have here is a 1956 Memphis/Chevrolet combination with red parking light lenses and a Federal #17-B demountable beacon. Score!
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hhmmmmm.....
how about chevy with buick portholes. looks like they really dressed it out. wasn't there a black consortium of funeral directors that went into the ambulance buisness back in the early 50's? in memphis i beleive. something about white funeral homes not wanting to service black folks. man love that sunshade. tires dressed with tire black(remember that and your older like me) sunshade, portholes, trim, chrome. yeah im close on this one.
how about chevy with buick portholes. looks like they really dressed it out. wasn't there a black consortium of funeral directors that went into the ambulance buisness back in the early 50's? in memphis i beleive. something about white funeral homes not wanting to service black folks. man love that sunshade. tires dressed with tire black(remember that and your older like me) sunshade, portholes, trim, chrome. yeah im close on this one.
Dan Brintlinger
PCS Member
'55 in '86?
If my middle=age memory is halfway good, that '55 was at the '86 International Meet in Tulsa..........does anyone else remember?
If my middle=age memory is halfway good, that '55 was at the '86 International Meet in Tulsa..........does anyone else remember?
Yes, it was; the owner lived in Claremore at the time.
Here is Paul Steinberg's very nice 1962 C/B-Chevrolet ambulance, as seen at the recent PCS meet in Morgantown, PA. It originally served a funeral home in IA: