Pro car you missed

Martin Harvey

Martin Harvey

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Just want to hear and share, is any pro car you missed, a sale you lost?

Will start, I remember a 1967 Superior Cadillac High top ambulance around 2002, all white stunning car .. with a bump on the rear door but almost perfect which was for sale on Ebay. I didnt kept the pics but I remember a lady with a vacuum on one of the picture of the car cleaning the back patient compartment!! I missed the sale, was the highest bidder with 1200$... the cas was sold something around 3500$ .. (!!! remember the time when there was at least 12 of them for sale every week?)

dreamin dreamin... One day !

what's your stories folks?
 
White Superior Rescuer

Was that the one that Joe DiCorpo bought????? I had the opportunity to see it in his garage/museum one day.
Kevin
 
I have two "the one that got away" stories, one from about 10 years ago, and the other from just a couple months ago.

The one from about 10 years ago would have been my second pro car if the sale had happened. It was a 1984 Chevrolet El Camino combination hearse/flower car conversion. The bed had been lengthened to be long enough to accomodate a casket, and a custom removable cap that included landau bars and coach lamps enabled the car to be either a hearse or a flower car. Fellow PCS member Tim Fantin was selling the car, and after I had expressed interest in it at a PCS chapter event, he was kind enough to give me a call when he decided to sell.

Anyway, I go to Tim's place to look at the car, and even though I did want it, I was having a hard time making up my mind about spending that kind of money. Tim asked if I'd like to go see the rest of his collection, about an hour's drive away as I recall, and it would give me time to think about it. Sounded like a good idea to me, so off we went. Well during the drive back, I decided that I did want the car. We pull into Tim's driveway, and the El Camino is gone. Tim's dad was watching over the house, so Tim goes and asks him where the car is, and he said someone came by while we were gone with cash in his pocket and bought it.

The other car from just a couple months ago was a 1981 Chrysler Imperial limousine by AHA, possibly one of two built. A classic car dealer had the car, and I loved the 1981-83 Imperials since they were new, so there was no question that I wanted it. But the dealer was asking a price that was out of my range. I kept my eye on the car, and eventually the price was lowered to where I was ready to make my move. I went to my bank and got approved for a loan. I then get home and call the dealer, and the thing sold a lousy 16 minutes before!!! Pissed off doesn't begin to explain how I felt at that!!
 
the one that I let get away was solely due to my not having the money. I was trying to sell one car but it wasnt going any where. The car I wanted?..It was and 1986 Lincoln S&S limousine in the same color and same year as my 86 S&S Lincoln hearse.
 
I have recently been thinking about one that I wish I had bought. It was a 1984 black Superior 3-way. It was close and a good price. The reason I didn't buy it was I didn't have a job at the time. I don't know what happened to it, but I watch craigslist hoping it pops back up.
 
Yeah, I have a couple. One is the '65 ACC Chevy ambulance that had been owned, since new, by a fire department here in MD. I drove past there once a year for 13 years, checking on it. In 2001, when I drove past there, it had a "for sale" sign on it. I stopped, took photos, and got information for their sealed bid. It had been updated with new lights, decals, and wheels, and was used as their chief's car, but it still had the ACC ambulance interior. I really wanted it because many fire departments here in MD owned similar units at one time, but this one was the only one left.

I submitted a bid, higher than what I thought it was worth but worth it to me. I got a nice letter back saying, thanks, but I was the second highest bidder. Someone paid more than twice what I bid for it, with the intent of stripping it out, chopping the top, and making a street rod out of it. Grrrrr. It's gone.

Oh, there's also the time I went out to Rockford, IL to buy a really nice Travelall ambulance, but the "nice one" had been "sold" the day before I got there and all he had was a really crappy Travelall ambulance. But you've heard that one before....
 

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In 1962, when my Hemmings arrived, there was a 1934 Dodge Ambulance for sale in Texas. By the time that I got the magazine and called, the car had been sold. I often wonder what happened to so many of these old cars once they change owners, since they fall off the radar and never seem to resurface again. I have a hard time rationalizing that people will spend hundreds and sometimes thousands of dollars, only to let the rust worms take over the cars and then scrap them for pennies on the dollar of original cost.
 
I have always wanted A superior limousine-style Pontiac, or Cadillac. To date, I have yet to own a nice one.

Here are a few I missed;
RF Parsons 1965 Superior Cadillac Ambulance
Dwayne Brooks 1966 Superior Rescuer
A 1967 Superior Pontiac High Top Ambulance former Roy's Toy
And the non-Superiors I might have bought
1966 Cotner Bevington Olds Limo-style combination former Tim Fantin
1972 Cotner Bevington Olds Seville Landau combination former Lloyd Ray
1968 Dodge High Top Ambulance, it was in Canada and still is.

But, I have had so many others over the years, I have to say it is all good!
 
Maybe you're better off dreaming Martin. One day I hope we have the pleasure of meeting! :071:

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Too bad I live so far :smileflagcan: !

I remember another one I think Mr Davidson went to see also, a 1964 Superior Pontiac ambulance. I first saw the car in 2002 and was in rough but restorable shape. I made a reasonable offer on the car but the seller told me a kind "no, Ill keep it". 5 years after, his son put the car back on sale, half the price I offered... When I went to see it I realised that he left the car outside with no protection during these 5 years... with a window broken. Total lost, I passed.
 
There are a couple of procars I missed as a young boy. Please understand, as a boy, I always had a car around the house. I sometimes sold one to buy another. So, it isn't as strange as it sounds.

Back in around 1968, or 1969, I saw an ad in the local paper for a Packard ambulance. The price was about $500, or $600, I know it sounds cheap now. Anyway, it was about eight miles from my house and I was interested. I called and a lady took my address to send pictures. I never did see the pictures though, somehow I had an idea that my mom made them disappear. Since I never actually saw the car, I cannot be sure of what I am about to say. But, based on the length of time he owns it and where it came from, I believe that George Hamlin's red Henney ambulance is in fact "the one that got away"

Also, about a year later, there was a white and blue 1958 Superior Cadillac ambulance for sale for $450! I had the money to buy it, but my father said that there was no way I was going to have an ambulance. I have often wondered where that one went.
 
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