Martin Harvey
PCS Member
Just noticed that '69 in the back, who owns that beauty?!?
Merry Oldsmobiles
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Dave Lisiecki
PCS Member
Tacoma Olds
Although Tacoma's LeMay America's Car Museum is the "LeMay Museum," the LeMay Family Collection is at a Marymount, wonderful fomer seminary south of Tacoma, not far from the LeMay family property. I spotted an Olds ambulance there with a PCS badge. Anyone recognize it? It's stored in a large metal building with cars filling the floor and closely-stacked three or four high, where this one is parked.
Although Tacoma's LeMay America's Car Museum is the "LeMay Museum," the LeMay Family Collection is at a Marymount, wonderful fomer seminary south of Tacoma, not far from the LeMay family property. I spotted an Olds ambulance there with a PCS badge. Anyone recognize it? It's stored in a large metal building with cars filling the floor and closely-stacked three or four high, where this one is parked.
John ED Renstrom
PCS Member
it would appear to be a former Illinois car what with the 4 corner Jrs and the 184 in the canter.
Mike McDonald
PCS Member
'58 Comet-Olds
It looks like the 1958 Olds that Lou Farah used to own?
It looks like the 1958 Olds that Lou Farah used to own?
Anyone have one of these restored to USAF original? Would love to see more pictures.
Thanks for the great shot.
58 Olds
That white 58 Old sis very unusual in that it has "Ninety Eight" script and trim on the front fenders, yet the rear bumper and lighting arrangement is from a base 88 model.
That white 58 Old sis very unusual in that it has "Ninety Eight" script and trim on the front fenders, yet the rear bumper and lighting arrangement is from a base 88 model.
John ED Renstrom
PCS Member
about 6 questions and answers floating here. to answer Attila yes I have a pictures of a 73 military delivered in Denver to the military hospital there. I can't find it right now. we did out the pictures and get it re scanned in. and here is a pictures of lou's 58 if memory serves me right it was sold to a ambulance service.
John ED Renstrom
PCS Member
Back to the '73 Cotington 48 - it was sold used to a city in NE, then went to a PCS member in CA, and finally to the collection seen here. I have a Terry Lange photo of it (while in NE) in my collection.
Martyn Donaldson
PCS Member
Here's another pic of the LeMay '73 where it currently sits...
http://s872.photobucket.com/user/Lesneyfan/media/IMG_0142_zpsd5f7c38f.jpg.html
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John ED Renstrom
PCS Member
here is the picture of the 73 on it's delivery day in Denver. the man that sent these reference pictures to me was picking it up to take to the hospital. we used them to get the lettering right on our 72. those 890 really look so much better under the car then the 235.
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John ED Renstrom
PCS Member
I don't think I put a pictures of my former 72 up here. it's a case of getting the facts after. I wish now that I had put the red crosses on it rather then the star of life. then had the stars made in the magnetic signs. not the other way around. I sanded off the us army on it and it was up in the orange stripe.
the doors are the way there were. but this was the first car we did and you got to learn on something.
the doors are the way there were. but this was the first car we did and you got to learn on something.
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Brady D Smith
PCS Life Member / PCS Past President
Terry Lange
PCS Member
The vehicle is not white, and owned by a EMS ministry in Texas. Steve had offered the vehicle to me, and told me that it was a military ambulance. Having no interest in military ambulances, I passed on the vehicle, and he donated it to the present owner. Only after seeing the pictures, did I realize that it wasn't a military ambulance, but a high top ambulance. I think of this car as "the one that got away". 
Terry Lange
PCS Member
While the albums are out and the scanner is warm, here are a couple of '75 C/B's, the last year they produced ambulances. I photographed the landau style rig at the New Hope, PA PCS National meet back in 1987. It was brought there by Bob Hedges. As pointed out elsewhere in this thread, the car was not a true Criterion, as it was not a walk-thru and didn't have the split in the second door on the driver's side. The white Olds I shot outside a restaurant somewhere in Nebraska.
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The vehicle is not white, and owned by a EMS ministry in Texas. Steve had offered the vehicle to me, and told me that it was a military ambulance. Having no interest in military ambulances, I passed on the vehicle, and he donated it to the present owner. Only after seeing the pictures, did I realize that it wasn't a military ambulance, but a high top ambulance. I think of this car as "the one that got away".
This car was purchased new by a first aid squad in NJ. Originally silver and burgundy, it was painted yellow by it's second owner, a fire department in IL. Steve Diamond had it painted white, which it remains today:
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Hamilton Co. A.S. (Aurora, NE)
This car was eventually sold to a private service in Wichita, and then to a private service in Tulsa that used it for a parade vehicle. It has since been exported to a collector in South America.