Flint, MI Pro-Cars

[Richard Vyse]

I've watched other threads on Pro-Cars from certain areas and felt I needed to post a thread on Flint, MI Pro-Cars. I had to post Brady's Lifeliner and hope that was ok with Mr. Smith.

 

[Richard Vyse]

For you Flintstones, look at the first picture with the CB weather ball and tell me what the forecast is going to be.

In Flint the Citizens Bank has a weather ball on their building and it features different colors indicating the weather predictions.

RED=

BLUE=

YELLOW=

I think there is a fourth color but cannot remember it. It would be nice to have a picture of your Pro-Car added to this thread even if it is not from the Flint area but perhaps in Michigan or currently is a Michigan car.

 

[Kevin M. Parkinson]

The forecast in the picture (I took and gave to Brady) that you posted is steady temperature. Red means increasing temperature. Blue means decreasing temperature. There are only three colors. If the ball is blinking then there is precipitation expected.

Click here for more information and history of the Citizens Bank Weather Ball.

 

[Richard Vyse]

If the ball is blinking then there is precipitation expected.

Click here for more information and history of the Citizens Bank Weather Ball.

I remember that now. Blinking is for rain. Thanks Kevin.

 

[Kevin M. Parkinson]

Here are two more pictures I took the same day in August 2010.

In the first you can see the West side of Saginaw Street North of Kearsley Street in the background. In the foreground you see a 1972 S&S Cadillac Victoria Landau, custom built for Becker Funeral Home (Becker-Hunt Funeral home since 1979), South Sioux City, NE. The car remained in service there until Jack Becker traded it and flew to Cincinnati to drive home his brand new 1976 S&S Cadillac Centennial Victoria. It was then in service in Bucklin, MO (dates unknown). Also pictured is a 1972 Cadillac Fleetwood 75 Sedan. This car was in service at a funeral home in Washington.

The second picture shows the cars previously seen but includes a view of the Mott Foundation Building and a partial view of Genesee Towers.

 

[Kevin M. Parkinson]

I remember that now. Blinking is for rain. Thanks Kevin.

Snow is precipitation too.

 

[Brady D Smith]

Here is a Flint photo.

Algoe Gundry Co.

 

[Mike Burkhart - Deceased 1948 - 2016]

I figured the "C-B" meant Cotner-Bevington!!!!! Ha!Ha!Ha!:cheers:

 

[Brad Ross]

-The Reigle Funeral Cars-

From a brochure distributed by Reigle Funeral Home on its opening just south of downtown Flint in 1948:

Their motto for the new Funeral Home was "Built for the working man and his family".

 

[Steve Loftin]

Where is Cedaredge?

 

[Mike Stevens]

one less

Does anyone know what happened to the Metro Miller-Meteor with the smashed front end? Was it rebuilt or totalled with the lights?
Mike

 

[Richard Vyse]

Not sure of the smashed Miller but more than likely with that much damage was stripped and sent to the scrap yard. The 77 sitting by the hospital I believe was out west possibly Colorado. I inserted that ambulance because it was one of the "infamous three" that Groves & Co. Funeral Home purchased for the Flint area. This ambulance however, was never put into service in Flint. I believe Mark Provost now owns this ambulance and it has since been restored.

 

[Brad Ross]

Does anyone know what happened to the Metro Miller-Meteor with the smashed front end? Was it rebuilt or totalled with the lights?
Mike

Today I talked with Scott Walker, who was in the passenger seat of the Metro M-M when it was wrecked in 1975. He stated that the ambulance was scrapped. Not sure if the lights, Q, or other items were removed.