Sad end to a Superior
- Thread starter Robert Shepard
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A good body man like Ed could straighten that in just a few days... 
John ED Renstrom
PCS Member
With a doner car, there was a time. A hard hit off the left that moved the cowl back.
Daniel Scully
PCS Member
Kurt Arends
PCS Elected Director 2021-2024
I wonder why they had the rear of the rig covered?? Might have been ugly back there.
That '72 Superior 54 held up well, considering the hit it took!
That '72 Superior 54 held up well, considering the hit it took!
In better times; from a Facebook post, also by Robert Shepard:
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Peter Grave - Deceased - 1938 - 2022
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With regard to the cover it appears to be rolled back for the pictures to be taken. They may have covered the whole rig because of it being a fatal something we did on fatals when we towed them in discouraged morbid lookers. A couple of comments we fixed many Cadillacs of the 60s and 70s. A hit of the severity of this one would have broken the transmission and the cowl would not have pulled to be repaired. We almost never straightened the frame on hard front hits it was both easier and safer to replace the front half rewelding on the factory weld points. Same goes for the cowl use one from a back hit or a rollover cut the windshield posts about six to eight from the bottom and the floor and rockers just forward of the seat. A couple of the worst ones were a 66 Miller Cadillac belonging to the Oxen Hill MD. fire department. We were told it hit a Corvair broken down in the middle lane of the DC Beltway killing the Corvair driver apparently we were told only minor injuries to the patient and crew. The interesting thing is they hit the Corvair so square the headlights on the Ambulance were not broken. The other on that was real bad (we parted it out) was a 62 Superior Cadillac. The story on that one was the driver was a cowboy rounded a curve at high speed crossed into oncoming traffic and hit a dump truck head on. This one sadly was a triple fatal,the driver,nurse,and patient. Only survivor was the attendant.
John ED Renstrom
PCS Member
He was most likely in the rear facing seat as the nurse would take the bench. But yes done a few like this. We used a frame shop that is vary good. When you could do this kind or repair. They kind of frown on it in a shop today. In this sue happy country.
The ambulance had been delivered just 2 weeks prior to the crash. The crew was traveling at a very low speed (had a tachograph) in the fog. The driver of the other car was killed. His vehicle was speeding and drove head on into the ambulance.
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Sure shows the difference between a M-M next to two Superiors all 3 of the same year and livery (although the beacons and whistles on the M-M don’t match the superiors). Would have been wild if the third rig woulda been an S&S!