How many Criterion's are left...

Not sure if this Criterion was added but doing so to be safe. Terry Lange used to own this one.
 

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Perhaps one more. Sorry, I doubt know anything about it getting it from a PCS member. It may be a duplicate.
 

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More Criterion info!

Gonna breathe some life back into this thread! Can't recall if I've brought this up or not but I did confirm today that there was a M-M Criterion in service here in Middle Tennessee. It was a 1976 and was bought and ordered new by Sanderson Funeral Home of Carthage TN. Sold new by Anderson M-M Sales in Nashville and when retired from service after FH's here in TN had to exit emergency ambulance service in about 1979 it was sold and went out to Texas. Will work on finding out more and maybe a picture in the next week or to and see if this one can be traced/tracked! Interestingly this car replaced the near a identical twin to my 1972 M-M Lifeliner that was totaled out just before the Criterion was to arrive from M-M.
 
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The only way that we are ever going to know how many are left is to identify them by serial numbers. All too often the paint scheme's have been changed, and they are being counted as another vehicle. Unlike the downsized Superior ambulances, where each one was different in looks, all the Criterion's look alike for the most part, and it is next to impossible to get an accurate count. A database is only as good as the information that was used to create it. Certainly we have enough of them in the club, and that have been owned by club members, that we can start to assemble a serial number list along with pictures.
 
Such a list has been started awhile ago

One of the purposes for creating the Miller-Meteor Chapter was to begin a database of all known Miller-Meteor vehicles (those built from 1957-1979.) While the chapter also recognizes the history of Miller and Meteor as individual companies, the main emphasis for data collection is on Miller-Meteor, 1957-1979.

We ask that body numbers (not VIN numbers), along with a photo, be emailed to kars971@aol.com.
 
Criterion Thread

Ref. Post 90: This picture of a picture is one I took in June, 1982, at Old Capitol Ambulance in Iowa City, Iowa. Bob Hutt, owner of Capital City Ambulance in Des Moines, set his son, Marty, up in business after he sold CCA to a hospital consortium in D.M. Bob was retained by the consortium to liquidate the pro cars, which some went to Bill Begley Ambulance Sales in Omaha, NE, and a junkyard in Council Bluffs, IA, and Midcontinent (Stratus) in K.C., Mo. Bob kept three of them; the '73 prototype which I bought the day I took this picture, and a '74 (car #1), which is the one that Paul was inquiring about in the fleet shot as the last car on the right, I later removed all the doors (after it had gone to Begley's) and delivered them to Carl Woerner. The only thing wrong with the car was it needed a new timing chain. Car #12 shown in Post 147 is one I bought from Fred Swihart in Lincoln, NE, and he had gotten from Stratus in K.C.,MO. I later sold it to Carl Woerner (after I switched to vans for the Daytona Speedway contract).
 

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Can We Add Another One?

Hi Gang.
When I joined my local squad back in 1979, we still ran this rig:
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I thought it was a 1976, but I am not versed on the finer points of Criterion identification. Please feel free to educate me:)
Sincerely,


David
 
After having been able to locate some former co-workers, I was able to obtain some more info about the 1976 Critierion that was owned by Jess Byrd. It was a pretty well "loaded" ambulance for the time. It was indeed built at the end of the 1976 model year by Wayne and was used by the Indianapolis Sppedway for time trials and on race day. It was delivered 2 days after the race to Mansfield, Ohio. It did have the medical storage compartments built into the side and rear doors. To the best of everyone's memories, it did not have the "action bar" attached to the main wall cabinet. It did come with a built in oxygen system and a Rico RS-4 Suction unit. It was used primarily as an out of town transfer unit, but did see some in town emergency action. The primary ambulance at the time was a 1975 Superior 54XL.
 
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