1965 Cadillac Ambulance Superior Rescuer
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Comments about this vehicle
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◊ 2006-12-14 07:51 |
How many Cadillac models were converted into Ambualnces? Or did they just use standard commercial chassis models? |
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◊ 2006-12-14 10:36 |
Most of them were made from commercial chassis, I think. Example: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6b/72comcha.jpg MrCadillac posted a nice photo of these commercial chassis carried on a truck, but I do not know where. I'll search it this evening as I think that I saved it on my PC. |
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◊ 2006-12-15 04:03 |
1966 Commercial Chassis? http://www.vfrclc.org/images/MBar66.jpg |
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◊ 2006-12-15 12:41 |
About 2,000 - 2,500 Commercial Chassis were delivered to professional car builders each year (for 1966 the number is 2,463 to be a real anorak). Albeit exact figures are impossible to obtain, a fairly safe estimate is that 2/3rd were made into ambulances, 1/3rd into funeral coaches. Converting used Cadillac cars into hearses or ambulances usually only happend outside the United States. The stringent federal standards made it not feasible to build these cars from anything but a new commercial chassis. For the same reason no domestic Cadillac ambulances were built after somewhen in the mid-eighties, since the standards were changed in a way that only van-based vehicles can meet the new minimum interior dimensions. |
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◊ 2006-12-15 12:47 |
Oh, btw, this looks like a rare Cotner-Bevington ambulance on a 1965-66 Cadillac commercial chassis. Mr. Cadillac, can you identify the taillights? |
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◊ 2006-12-31 06:27 |
It is a 1965. The 1966 tail lights have a vertical center bar. |
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◊ 2007-03-06 11:52 |
"Strawway" is right; it's a '65 model. According to professional car historian, Thomas A. McPherson, a total of 2,961 professional cars were built on Cadillac commercial chassis (the grand total, including non-Cadillac models, was 4,880). There is no known, official breakdown between ambulances and funeral vehicles. I don't recognize the coach-builder. It might well be Cotner-Bevington (Wayne) as suggested by "junkman". |
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◊ 2007-03-06 12:17 |
This link could be useful for US commercial cars: http://www.northlandpcs.com/ |
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◊ 2007-03-06 12:58 |
Best link for US hearses: http://www.hearse.com/ My own site: http://www.heavenlyhearses.com (non-US) |
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◊ 2008-03-26 13:14 |
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◊ 2008-03-26 16:12 |
You post "*" to find back the page? It is dangerous, some could interpret it as "1-star rating" .gif ";)") |
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◊ 2008-03-26 17:38 |
Oh, I´m sorry. The star is my "watch item and get back to it later" function. Once I come back and write a comment, I normally delete the *-comment. But if that´s irritating, I can change my habits. .gif ":)") But in this case I´m done: Cotner/ Bevington built almost exclusively on Oldsmobile chassis. This looks to be a Superior Rescuer. -- Last edit: 2008-03-26 19:11:11 |
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◊ 2008-03-26 20:14 |
Not irritating, just dangerous if one admin thinks that you just give a new rating for the car (using another character is maybe better then) |
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◊ 2008-03-26 23:27 |
OK, I´ll do it better next time. Please don´t forget my above note: Cotner/ Bevington built almost exclusively on Oldsmobile chassis. This looks to be a Superior Rescuer. |
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◊ 2008-03-26 23:37 |
Sorry, I guess I missed the last words, which were the important ones in this case  -- Last edit: 2008-03-26 23:38:01 |
