Recipe for a good time....

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Doug House

Since Bill Leverett had to go and mention "THAT" song, Golden Earring's "Radar Love", in another thread, ....only one of the best Code 3 driving songs of all time (Along with "Born To Be Wild", "Danger Zone", and "Highway Star")........

Here is my recipe for a good time:

1) Get yourself a 1975 Miller-Meteor Criterion Cadillac ambulance with the big, bad 500 cubic inch engine. (You may substitite your own personal choice for "Biggest, baddest Pro Car" here, but you have to admit...it would work VERY well with a Criterion!!!)
2) Restore the heck out of it. Tweak that big block until the low, throaty rumble out of the exhaust when it starts up gives you goose-bumps.
3) Wait for a beautiful, warm, moon-lit summer night.
4) Head out to a quiet highway about 3:00 AM. Stop in the middle of the road, and fasten your seat belt.
5) Plug the Golden Earring CD into the CD player that you wisely installed under the seat so you didn't have to swap out the factory original AM/FM radio and get Paul Steinberg and half of the PCS mad at you. Select "Radar Love".
6) Turn up the volume control until it just won't go any farther.
7) While the intro notes are playing through the super-compact Bose Lifestyle speakers that you hid behind the seats, reach up to the overhead console and hit the "Emergency Master" switch. Grin with pleasure when the ammeter barely twitches as that big 184, all four of the Ful-Vus, and the four red alternating side lights kick in. Watch the highway light up.
8) Reach to the dash and turn on your siren.
9) Press the gas pedal so hard that it threatens to punch through the floorboards (which won't happen, because you replaced them with new ones because the others were rusted through).
10) Toss up a silent "Thank You" to the Good Lord for making it possible to have this much fun as an adult.
11) Just freakin' DRIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!! Don't let up until the song is over.

It just doesn't get any better than that!

(And, of course, in my fantasy there are no such things as radar traps!)
 
Rick, when I get the Criterion to the shape I want her to be, I'll definately be bringing her down your way. We'll go for a drive, my friend. That's a promise. :cheers:
 
I'm all for it but leave the darn stereo off. in fact take it out and there is no factory radio nothing but a plug. while your turning things off turn off the noise make I have heard it enough and those lights are giving me a headake. but now the driving fast part, we can do that:applause:
 
also don't forget were things may be few and far between, there is law enforcement here. the last time I drove fast in a Criterion I got a ticket. lucky for me it was not sooner they caught up with me. I was looking for a copy of it. I had scanned. but it must have gone with the last systems crash
 
Jeez, Ed. Giving a ticket to someone in a Criterion is just WRONG in soooo many ways! It's almost sacriligious! Certain things should be exempt.

When observing a speeding Criterion gaining on them in their rear view mirror, police officers should pull over and let the Criterion pass. Those officers that have the good taste to give the Criterion driver a :thumbsup: as he blows past should be entitled to an extra donut. :respect:
 
About 75% of the police today aren't even aware of what a Criterion was or is. The only experience that they have with ambulances is the box type. Most probably don't even know what a carburetor is..
 
Well, Paul, it's a good thing that organizations like the PCS exist. Nothing like a little public education, which I understand this group does very well. :applause:
 
I'm in. In our rural area, finding the location for Doug's scenario will not be a problem. Of course, I'll have to settle for a Lifeliner. It's a nice Lifeliner...Miller-Meteor...bells & whistles...not a Criterion, but it'll do.

On second thought, I'll use my '68 M-M combination with the 472. The takeoff will be much faster.

When I was in high school, my daily driver was a 1968 Superior Cadillac combination with an excellent 472 under the hood. Doug's dream has brought back some memories for me! :D
 
been down the road with the lights and siren enough when it was real to just kick it on for fun. now a parade that's different. but you can't speed in a parade. have a lot of fun with the siren and pa though. I got pulled over in Roberts 75 on our shake down cruse. little think about driving off the road and speeding no seat belts. just a warring ticket. Paul is right the man never knew what he had stopped. he though he had a drunk drive not one high on lacquer fumes. at the time he stopped us I was doing about 10 over. had we run across him a little earlier we were doing at least 30 over.
 
I live in a nice rural area where I can do this too. I even have been known to run through town with my lights and siren blaring. Just ask John Renstrom about me winding up my siren in my 49 in the driveway when he stopped by.
 
I've gotta admit, I done it to living in a rural area!:respect: You just can't resist the temptation to hit those lights and siren(s) on a rural desolate road late at night!:D
 
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