Check the links below.
The first shows an early 60s Cadillac converted as a CBS News mobile unit. The high top makes it look as if it started life as an ambulance; you decide.
It's likely taken from the 1968 Republican National Convention in Miami. You get a glimpse of the rear fender to make out the tail lights and the model year.
I know the sharp eyes in the group can identify the year and perhaps a coach builder!
The bikini, beehive and heels; high water britches, rainbow striped sport shirt and Brylcreem hair add flavor to the photo.
The second shows a 60s Dodge (or Chrysler product) station wagon also converted into a mobile unit. This vehicle was used for a John Glenn parade after his first space flight.
The caption says the picture was taken outside the CBS Broadcast Center in New York in 1972. Note the Federal Beacon Ray and the cool convertible parked behind it.
The photo links come from a site for CBS engineering retirees.
Also, WDAF-TV in Kansas City used a Packard hearse as one of its first news mobile units in the late 40s and early 50s. When a reporter put together a piece on station history in 1984, she joked that staffers back then called it "the hearse." Little did she know, it truly was. I'll post a photo or video link if I can find it in my archives.
Link to Cadillac: http://www.cbsretirees.com/Durante/image3.html
Link to Dodge: http://cbsretirees.com/page_8/image2.html
Chris Turner
Jeffersonville, Ind.
(Louisville suburb)
(pro car enthusiast and broadcast journalist)
The first shows an early 60s Cadillac converted as a CBS News mobile unit. The high top makes it look as if it started life as an ambulance; you decide.
It's likely taken from the 1968 Republican National Convention in Miami. You get a glimpse of the rear fender to make out the tail lights and the model year.
I know the sharp eyes in the group can identify the year and perhaps a coach builder!
The bikini, beehive and heels; high water britches, rainbow striped sport shirt and Brylcreem hair add flavor to the photo.
The second shows a 60s Dodge (or Chrysler product) station wagon also converted into a mobile unit. This vehicle was used for a John Glenn parade after his first space flight.
The caption says the picture was taken outside the CBS Broadcast Center in New York in 1972. Note the Federal Beacon Ray and the cool convertible parked behind it.
The photo links come from a site for CBS engineering retirees.
Also, WDAF-TV in Kansas City used a Packard hearse as one of its first news mobile units in the late 40s and early 50s. When a reporter put together a piece on station history in 1984, she joked that staffers back then called it "the hearse." Little did she know, it truly was. I'll post a photo or video link if I can find it in my archives.
Link to Cadillac: http://www.cbsretirees.com/Durante/image3.html
Link to Dodge: http://cbsretirees.com/page_8/image2.html
Chris Turner
Jeffersonville, Ind.
(Louisville suburb)
(pro car enthusiast and broadcast journalist)
