Family wagon

[Steve Lichtman]

Here's an interesting photo, from Facebook. Most families have a snapshot of their kids standing in front of the family wagon. But when your family wagon is the ambulance....

Dennis Goethe posted this picture which he got from someone named Jones (which is also the nameplate on the door).

 

[Richard Vyse]

That is so cool... Now you know how Walt McCall's family felt.

 

[Steve Loftin]

This is likely the most minimal warning system I've ever seen on a postwar ambulance!

 

[Mike McDonald]

Vfd chief's car

This is likely the most minimal warning system I've ever seen on a postwar ambulance!

Steve: Although I didn't have a camera with me to memorialize it.... I was at a (very remote) Volunteer Fire Dept last year near Ocotillo Wells in the Lower CA Desert and the (very elderly) Fire Chief there had a Ford LTD-II Hardtop (his personal vehicle) with a Signal-Stat turn signal light (bolted) to the the LS of the Hood for is compliant CA STEADY RED and the same size and type flashing amber on the inside rear porch deck. No visible outside siren, so I am assuming he has an electronic under the hood? At the time I was there buying their X-LA County 1956 CROWN Type-I Pumper that the pump was out on. MM

 

[Attila Bethlenfalvy]

Steve, hope that you don't mind another family wagon in your thread as I've lusted over this shot for years (obvious reason). Taken in '68+/- and forwarded by a growing fetus obscured in the shot by mother and older brother. His frugal open-minded father found a deal on this Crown that couldn't be passed up. It served as the family's only vehicle for (if recalled properly) about 5 years. I've saved a few other shots of this '60 in different family roles.

That playpen just plain kicks a*s. Great period photo.

It was replaced in the early '70s with a '64 Superior.

 

[Jim Jordan]

And where is that 60 Crown now?

 

[Jeremy D. Ledford]

Gotta love the play pen in the back of the Superior!!!

 

[Attila Bethlenfalvy]

In 15 years, this one is not among the 8 existing '60 Crown Royale limo styles I can account for. Means it is still out there somewhere Jim.

 

[Paul Newman]

That has got to be the coolest family car pic i have ever seen. Wish my parents were that awesome !!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Paul Steinberg]

.............. Wish my parents were that awesome !!!!!!!!!!!!

I've known parents that said the same about wishing their children were awesome.... Someday, you might become a parent, and your children might say the same about you.

Gramps