He said it was an ambulance.
- Thread starter Bruce Oliphant
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Tim Prieur
PCS Member
It was likely many things...that it is not now.
Darren Bedford
PCS Member
Easy to prove with it being a 2nd owner car.
Rat Rod Surf Mobile now. Best to just let it remain that.
Way to much money to do to bring it back into anything else.
Darren
Rat Rod Surf Mobile now. Best to just let it remain that.
Way to much money to do to bring it back into anything else.
Darren
I love that it's a surf-mobile........in Iowa!!!! 
Darren Bedford
PCS Member
Steve
We have them in Toronto too !
Darren
We have them in Toronto too !
Darren
The air conditioning was unusual enough on 66 Chevy's, especially a Bel Air, one step above the Biscayne.
The alternator is what stands out. I'm assuming that it is a Delco due to the red tag on the case. Definitely not a regular production alternator. IIRC Leece-Neville used a green tag on theirs, I could be wrong as it has been a lot of years since I've seen one.
Very possible that it was in ambulance service, or it was a municipal owned car assigned to a fire department as a supervisor's vehicle.
The alternator is what stands out. I'm assuming that it is a Delco due to the red tag on the case. Definitely not a regular production alternator. IIRC Leece-Neville used a green tag on theirs, I could be wrong as it has been a lot of years since I've seen one.
Very possible that it was in ambulance service, or it was a municipal owned car assigned to a fire department as a supervisor's vehicle.
That is a Delco 20DN perforated case alternator. You will note that it doesn't have exposed cooling fan blades, because they are located on the rotor. This alternator was used from 1962 till about 1973 in Chevrolet cars and trucks. The output is 62 amps, and it requires a special transistorized regulator. They are not easy to service, and parts are seldom available. It was used on the police & taxi package cars, and was most often found on trucks.
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John Royark JR
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I love that it's a surf-mobile........in Iowa!!!!
Its in Louisiana.
Kent Dorsey
PCS Member / Funeral Director
We have had this discussion on this site many times before, as well as a thread to post photos... but many funeral homes, fire departments, and rescue squads took a basic station wagon, put a cot fastener in it, put the stretcher in it, and crammed first aid supplies in it and called it an ambulance.
It was economical, and saved wear and tear on combinations and straight ambulances. A funeral home in an adjacent county ran a white Vista Cruiser wagon with a Vis-A-Bar light on it up until they quit running ambulance service. I can remember well the brown Buick wagon the rescue squad had here when I was a kid.
Supervisor's car? naw... it was the 60's... you could run whatever you wanted as an ambulance and a station wagon fit the bill...
Ex western NC unit from a fire department...
It was economical, and saved wear and tear on combinations and straight ambulances. A funeral home in an adjacent county ran a white Vista Cruiser wagon with a Vis-A-Bar light on it up until they quit running ambulance service. I can remember well the brown Buick wagon the rescue squad had here when I was a kid.
Supervisor's car? naw... it was the 60's... you could run whatever you wanted as an ambulance and a station wagon fit the bill...
Ex western NC unit from a fire department...
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My post was made in the correct forum as this was a Craigslist ad. I was referring to this car specifically when bringing up whether or not it was an ambulance, not station wagons in general being used as ambulances. Those were common in my area during that era as well.