Just an update on my Lifeliner. In the home stretch on paint hoping to have it back within two weeks. Not doing the really great paint job but a nice one to get it on the road again. I miss not having a access to her and excited getitng all the equipment back on it and driving it.
Lifeliner Update
- Thread starter Richard Vyse
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thats what its all about....driving her and enjoying her
Wayne Krakowski
PCS Member
Back to the important stuff, our pro cars please keep us posted
Martin Harvey
PCS Member
pictures !!
You work faster than me!
You work faster than me!
dont worry
I'm sure Richard will post many of his car. heck, I'd be a proud papa. fine car to start with.
pictures !!
You work faster than me!
I'm sure Richard will post many of his car. heck, I'd be a proud papa. fine car to start with.
Bill Marcy
PCS Member
Richard, we missed you! I can't wait to see the pictures!
Tim Prieur
PCS Member
As Bill said, looking forward to your posts and pics.
John ED Renstrom
PCS Member
I'll drop a hint it's orange and white. and will look good with the work finally done on the doors. we tend to forget these were work horses not show cars a good commercial paint job was all any of them had.
Daniel Scully
PCS Member
John ED Renstrom
PCS Member
a lot of difference in a hearse and a ambulance. one is as show car the other a work horse
Ed, did they use different painting techniques on funeral coaches vs. ambulances?
John ED Renstrom
PCS Member
you won't find a ambulance that is not a rougher body then a hearse. they ran threw the same booth the same people painted them but lets just say the quality control had a different set of standards for the work horse then the show car. think of GM truck line in the 60-70s and there car line. same kind of thing. the buyer was not as critical on the work unit as his front line one.
What ARE you talking about?
Do you think that M-M (or Superior) put less effort into workmanship or quality on ambulances than they did on hearses? The two were equally important. I've met M-M employees at the M-M meets in Piqua, and believe me, they didn't do any less on ambulances than they did on hearses. They all were quality built by skilled craftsmen/women. The designs were different, but the quality was certainly the same (top-notch), and they were proud of all of them.
Did ambulances get rougher treatment after they left the factory? Probably. Just the nature of the businesses. But they all were built to an excellent standard of craftsmanship.
Do you think that M-M (or Superior) put less effort into workmanship or quality on ambulances than they did on hearses? The two were equally important. I've met M-M employees at the M-M meets in Piqua, and believe me, they didn't do any less on ambulances than they did on hearses. They all were quality built by skilled craftsmen/women. The designs were different, but the quality was certainly the same (top-notch), and they were proud of all of them.
Did ambulances get rougher treatment after they left the factory? Probably. Just the nature of the businesses. But they all were built to an excellent standard of craftsmanship.
Wayne Krakowski
PCS Member
Oh yeah,worked in both fields and most funeral directors would shudder at the cleaning methods of ambulances,but that was the way it was ,several runs in all types of weather and the cleaning process went to a quick rinse get the mud/snow off and ready to go.cleaning a funeral coach was a precise exacting ritual,that vehicle HAD to be perfect ,at the homes I worked at anyway..
I would have a very hard time believing that ambulances and funeral coaches had different levels of quality when they left the factory. But once they leave the factory it is soley up to the standards of the funeral home or ambulance service. In busy urban ambulance services, this was a work vehicle. It saw hard miles and they were often abused by the drivers. During busy winter months it would not be unusual to have them go unwashed for several days. The phrase "rode hard and put away wet" comes to mind.
John ED Renstrom
PCS Member
How we forget these were all for production cars. They of course did not delebertly set out to construct a rougher car. But things happen on the line, some get redone some get passed by. You start tearing them apart you get to see the difference in them. This trim piece a little off put it on the ambulance. Oops cut that a little off, it's going on a ambulance. Use stuff up don't waste. it for the reasons Scott pointed out. You get to working on them you can really see it. Especially under the pretty. That's were the differences in builders shows up up also.
