Where are they today, the Diamond Collection Cars?

[James Douglas]

A Mr. Diamond of South Texas operated an ambulance service for many years and was also an avid collector of Professional Cars. He had a large collection of restored ambulances and funeral coaches that he owned and maintained in a museum like setting. In the early 1990’s he sold off his entire collection and all these years later I wonder where or who owns those cars today.

Be neat to see images of the original collection and images / information on the cars today.

 

[Bill Head]

Steve Diamond operated Diamond Ambulance Service in The Beaumont, Texas area during the mid 80's to early 90's. I visited him in the building where he kept his collection housed. What a treasure trove it would be to locate them today, I did take pictures and will try to post some of them. Steve and his wife are listed members of PCS in the last printed directory, what an interesting PCS story this would be. Pro cars 40,50, 60, and 70's.

 

[John ED Renstrom]

Amazon has a pass threw scanner that puts the images on a SD card vary reasonable price and good quality reproductions. they are able to do a big as 8x10 and the one I like is had held you can scam any image buy passing the wand over it. load it into the computer and edit most pictures to good as any Kodak processed in the 70's. any pictures of any ambulance taken when in service is worth preserving no matter how bad they are and sharing is the only way to preserve things. enough copies out there they will never get lost. stored no matter how careful when you got looking again 20 years later you find them damaged.

 

[James Douglas]

Amazon has a pass threw scanner that puts the images on a SD card vary reasonable price and good quality reproductions. they are able to do a big as 8x10 and the one I like is had held you can scam any image buy passing the wand over it. load it into the computer and edit most pictures to good as any Kodak processed in the 70's. any pictures of any ambulance taken when in service is worth preserving no matter how bad they are and sharing is the only way to preserve things. enough copies out there they will never get lost. stored no matter how careful when you got looking again 20 years later you find them damaged.

Ed I actually figured out how to scan the images and get them to my laptop and have already scanned them and uploaded the images. The tricky images will be those old conceptual drawings I have if I can find them. However I now hesitate to post them here out of fear of breaking yet another rule. You will notice my last post was removed for breaking a rule of driving traffic to another site although I never linked any site. guess we cannot even mention any other pro car site here or else

 

[Tim A. Fantin]

I still have the 1951 Cadillac S&S Ambulance. It was last started in 2007 when used for the movie " The Express". I recently took it out of dry storage and plan to have it on the road again this spring.
Steve's collection was also on VHS tape. He had the tape made when he decided to sell off his cars. I have a copy of it. That would be interesting if someone could upload that onto youtube. I have not watched it in years but there had to be atleast 10 or 15 ambulances in detail on it.