Some pics from Piqua

Jerry took this photo just before we went to Tipp City for supper, about 6:30. The "not sure" to my right is the owner of the Packard backdrop, Bill Peoples. Another version of this had been take just before Sharon and I got there, so Jerry took another one with us in it.
 
Jim Tighe said:
Jerry took this photo just before we went to Tipp City for supper, about 6:30. The "not sure" to my right is the owner of the Packard backdrop, Bill Peoples. Another version of this had been take just before Sharon and I got there, so Jerry took another one with us in it.
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OK, that's why I wasn't in the picture. Jerry didn't want to ruin his camera.
 
Here's a shirt seen at the meet

I was looking for Kent but found this instead. The shirt speaks for itself.:thumb:
 

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The guy next to Tom

Todd Merrifield said:
I'll take a crack at it, but unfortunately Jim Tighe overloaded my brain with too much information so I'm only good for about 75% of the names:

Main row:

Paul Steinberg
Walt McCall
Ok, this is embarassing. No lie, I actually had a conversation with this guy about forgetting names and how embarassing it is, AND NOW I CAN'T REMEMBER HIS NAME! But you watch, as soon as you tell me I'll remember it from then on...
LeeAnn Boston
Brady Smith
(above in red) I'm gonna go with George Hamlin?
not sure
Darren Bedford
Jim Tighe's wife
Scott Avnaim
Mike Stevens
not sure
Jim Tighe
not sure--Tom Caserta

Front row:

Todd Merrifield

I don't think I ever got the name of the guy in the wheelchair, but I know he showed up in an "In Town $19.95" U-haul van that he reportedly put 1100 miles on..

Jeremy Ledford

Not shown: Danny Ryder and Ron Devies, and Jerry must have been taking the picture.
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The man standing next to Tom is:
Jim Thompson, Thompson Funeral Home, Piedmont, AL, 65 Classic Limo Duplex
Steve Hansen
 
Let's just say I "left my mark" on that parking lot across from the plant. When I pulled out into the street my trailer hitch bracket dug into the pavement and it sounded like I got rear-ended by a bus. Didn't see any damage, to my surprise, but I'm guessing the driveway didn't fare as well. Something HAD to give for it to be that loud.
 
Todd Merrifield said:
Let's just say I "left my mark" on that parking lot across from the plant. When I pulled out into the street my trailer hitch bracket dug into the pavement and it sounded like I got rear-ended by a bus. Didn't see any damage, to my surprise, but I'm guessing the driveway didn't fare as well. Something HAD to give for it to be that loud.
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That noise was your bumper falling off where I had snuck and chained it to the pole near where you parked! And you never missed it?
 
we could have gotten it on it just would not have looked right. to quote Kevin O'Connell aren't you glad you didn't hot rod that truck. but to me as both these rigs builder are in question I find it vary interesting as to the fact that the tunnel light are the same on this ambulance as on the 53 Pontiac I have. I have never seen this treatment on any other lights either. makes you think the same peopel built them.
 

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Don't remember who it was that I talked with a few years ago that had built some ambulance out of station wagons, and added the tunnel lights. He told me that he was able to buy the tunnel light shells and then all he had to do was weld them onto the roofs, grind, fill, prime, and paint. Apparently, back in the 1950's & 1960's there were a lot of "off the shelf" items available for body builders. I know when I was in the truck equipment business, that there was a lot of items that we could buy from the supply companies to the industry that I can no longer find anywhere. One never knows where and how the body builders sourced the items that they installed. On Todd's car, the rear center roof light used a S & M Light that is the same as the 1950's Superior bus and ambulance warning lights. If I remember correctly, the front lights were Unity frames on a tunnel housing. I found it strange that they didn't use the same light front and back.
 
The front tunnel lights (or at least the chrome rings) are Deitz lights. It is stamped in them, but it is stamped on the top so you can only see it if you are on a ladder.

It was Kevin O'Connell that told me he thought it was a Yankee conversion, but for some reason I don't think he was 100% sure. Joe Ortiz might know more about the builder, as I think he was actually around the LA City FD when the units were delivered.
 
sourcing parts is the only way a small builder would be able to do this. heck GM is doing that from day one. but each builder brings they own style to the table. to look at these lights they are the same shape to the fill around them, the same cant up not straight out. I would say the same shop built them.
but the fact that I have not seen the same style on any other cars says more than anything else about who built them. that and the fact that we can't find any dati on eather to name the builder.
 
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