Is this new news or old????? while on my other web site scalefirehouse.com a member there has some history about the real Oneal ford ambulance. this is what was posted.
sacmankc135
"Being from Dallas/Fort Worth let me give you a tidbit, the lettering; all capitols on that ambulance were Red with a white body. An interesting deal for me was the tall gentleman black hair, white shirt and white socks handling the stretcher was Bob Abernathy, he lived next door to my Grandfather and parked that same unit in his driveway when he came home (things were a little more relaxed in those days), and had some more interesting stories to tell. I took photos with the brownie while it was in his driveway after that week, I'll try to locate them. The motorcade passed 6 blocks from Oneal funeral home and we (all of 15) were standing on that corner when Kennedy went by, about 5 miles from downtown. Now this piece brings back memories."
I then asked him about these pictures.....
The one in a museum
Hosted on Fotki
The one im building.....
Hosted on Fotki
This was his reply.
sacmankc135
"The one in the museum is not real, the car is not the same unit, it is a replica and/or a fake. The original was totaled in a rain storm @ Oak Lawn and Lemmon 3 blocks from the funeral home and 3 blocks from where I was standing to see Kennedy and scrapped a year after Oswald's pickup at City Hall. Bob received a broken wrist and several other small fractures in the crash. That is a station wagon converted into a look alike. The actual ambulance had four doublesided lollipops. two on each side, a Q in the center, and the model 17 with a red dome which housed 3 bulbs to the rear over the center of the car, as you are building it. The base of the 17 was not as high on the original car, as it appears on the model. I have that style beacon light in our museum I can measure if you'd like for exact dimensions, but I believe the entire height of that unit is 11" tall and 10" diameter with the 3 light setup including base, Model #173, 3 lamp. Bob later went on too run the fleet of ambulances for Sparkman & Hillcrest Funeral home and they had the city contract before the Fire Department went into the EMT and then the Paramedic program. [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLF9_Hp-[/ame] ... re=related about 2:31 frame is a better view of the unit. You can see that the beacon is not any higher than the Q. The whip antenna was mounted above the drivers side tail light too the body. Also Black wall tires. It also had ONEAL in red on the center of back tail gate just above chrome strip. It was a pure white and not a off white unit.
Also what was interesting is that Bob also answered the call of Father Huber who gave last rites to Kennedy, who then had a heart attack, and later on down the road died of old age, and Ruby's transport to hospital from jail. But I digress!
What museum is that in?"
Do we know were the Oneal Ford with the twin beacons is now so i can let my friend know?????
sacmankc135
"Being from Dallas/Fort Worth let me give you a tidbit, the lettering; all capitols on that ambulance were Red with a white body. An interesting deal for me was the tall gentleman black hair, white shirt and white socks handling the stretcher was Bob Abernathy, he lived next door to my Grandfather and parked that same unit in his driveway when he came home (things were a little more relaxed in those days), and had some more interesting stories to tell. I took photos with the brownie while it was in his driveway after that week, I'll try to locate them. The motorcade passed 6 blocks from Oneal funeral home and we (all of 15) were standing on that corner when Kennedy went by, about 5 miles from downtown. Now this piece brings back memories."
I then asked him about these pictures.....
The one in a museum
Hosted on FotkiThe one im building.....
Hosted on FotkiThis was his reply.
sacmankc135
"The one in the museum is not real, the car is not the same unit, it is a replica and/or a fake. The original was totaled in a rain storm @ Oak Lawn and Lemmon 3 blocks from the funeral home and 3 blocks from where I was standing to see Kennedy and scrapped a year after Oswald's pickup at City Hall. Bob received a broken wrist and several other small fractures in the crash. That is a station wagon converted into a look alike. The actual ambulance had four doublesided lollipops. two on each side, a Q in the center, and the model 17 with a red dome which housed 3 bulbs to the rear over the center of the car, as you are building it. The base of the 17 was not as high on the original car, as it appears on the model. I have that style beacon light in our museum I can measure if you'd like for exact dimensions, but I believe the entire height of that unit is 11" tall and 10" diameter with the 3 light setup including base, Model #173, 3 lamp. Bob later went on too run the fleet of ambulances for Sparkman & Hillcrest Funeral home and they had the city contract before the Fire Department went into the EMT and then the Paramedic program. [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLF9_Hp-[/ame] ... re=related about 2:31 frame is a better view of the unit. You can see that the beacon is not any higher than the Q. The whip antenna was mounted above the drivers side tail light too the body. Also Black wall tires. It also had ONEAL in red on the center of back tail gate just above chrome strip. It was a pure white and not a off white unit.
Also what was interesting is that Bob also answered the call of Father Huber who gave last rites to Kennedy, who then had a heart attack, and later on down the road died of old age, and Ruby's transport to hospital from jail. But I digress!
What museum is that in?"
Do we know were the Oneal Ford with the twin beacons is now so i can let my friend know?????
but....there is another thread somewhere on this site that discusses a lot of what we are talking about here. That thread is from about a year or so ago. Also, if you read the information provided on the two links shown in a previous post in this thread, they do not state that the car in the museum is the car. They only make a few factual statements that are general but no doubt in an attempt to mislead the reader into thinking their car is the one. The devil is in the details, especially when it comes to grammar.
