Pascal....Thanks so much for posting these photo's
they are GREAT !
they are GREAT !
Indy 500 ambulances
- Thread starter Pascal Michels
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I would like someone other than me also post pictures 
1988
1989
Pascal, this is great stuff, thanks for sharing. But not a lot of us have Indy 500 ambulance pictures to post, so......I would like someone other than me also post pictures
1967
Yes I know
Some additionnal pictures taken at the 1967 Indy 500
Yes I know
Some additionnal pictures taken at the 1967 Indy 500
John Burchfield
PCS Life Member
No pictures but...
Conkle Funeral Home is still in business in Speedway, Indiana, the suburban town around the IMS. I saw a hearse at Butler Coach sometime in the early '80s w/ a Poindexter nameplate in the side door. Thought I was imagining that name until I spotted it in Pascal's pictures of the Type I Chevrolet ambulance. There's a Poindexter-McClure FH in Washington and Odon, Indiana, a ways southwest of Indianapolis, maybe the same folks. AID = Ambulance Indianapolis Dispatch. I used to go over the Indy yellow pages with a fine toothed comb in the "ambulance service" and "funeral directors" sections when we were visiting relatives. I remember Myers, Parr-Lance, and several others. Back in those days you could count on some nice photos and graphic art in those ads.
Conkle Funeral Home is still in business in Speedway, Indiana, the suburban town around the IMS. I saw a hearse at Butler Coach sometime in the early '80s w/ a Poindexter nameplate in the side door. Thought I was imagining that name until I spotted it in Pascal's pictures of the Type I Chevrolet ambulance. There's a Poindexter-McClure FH in Washington and Odon, Indiana, a ways southwest of Indianapolis, maybe the same folks. AID = Ambulance Indianapolis Dispatch. I used to go over the Indy yellow pages with a fine toothed comb in the "ambulance service" and "funeral directors" sections when we were visiting relatives
. I remember Myers, Parr-Lance, and several others. Back in those days you could count on some nice photos and graphic art in those ads.Could you contact Conkle and others in Indianapolis to ask them if they have old pictures of their ambulances on the speedway ?
1991
Only a piece of the ambulance :
Only a piece of the ambulance :
1993
1994
In the infield in 1994
So, I have published all the pics I have from 1909 to 1999
Daytona Speedway ambulances
Now I suggest you to visit my new topic for the ambulances seen at the Daytona Speedway :
http://www.professionalcarsociety.org/forums/showthread.php?p=841890692#post841890692
Now I suggest you to visit my new topic for the ambulances seen at the Daytona Speedway :
http://www.professionalcarsociety.org/forums/showthread.php?p=841890692#post841890692
Thank you for this chronological history of ambulances at the Indy 500; we get to see how the professional cars faded out and the trucks took over. Great images
Some pics of the 2000's :
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2009
1967
Behind Johnny Carson : a Conkle Caddy
Behind Johnny Carson : a Conkle Caddy
1956
Yet another discovery
Yet another discovery
1957 medical director car
