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1970 Ford Club Wagon Chateau Window Super Van Ambu-Liner [E-300] 
Ep. 5.16Class: Cars, Ambulance — Model origin: 
![1970 Ford Club Wagon Chateau Window Super Van Ambu-Liner [E-300]](i796890.jpg)
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Minor action vehicle or used in only a short scene
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◊ 2015-03-23 17:50 |
ep 4.06:![[Image: i796890.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/2/i796890.jpg) |
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◊ 2017-04-19 05:33 |
High rear sidemarker, so not 1969 |
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◊ 2019-05-03 05:29 |
Club Wagon by all the chrome and I found a new ambulance company. Trinity of Duncanville, Texas. (Awaits AnimatronixX response  )Edit: https://www.vintageemergencyvehicles.com/1968-buick-ambulance-rental/ - info about Trinity. Thank you for correcting me AnimatronixX -- Last edit: 2019-05-03 22:55:48 |
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◊ 2019-05-03 21:42 |
@dhill_cb7: Good job mentioning Trinity in this context! Even though this isn't a Trinity ambulance, we're halfway there and are now joining forces reconstructing a largely forgotten part of automotive history! .gif ":)") Where does the info come from that a Trinity Ford ambulance is supposed to look like this? I ask, because the common state of knowledge is that Trinity was no longer active in 1970. Here's the story:Flxible, who had been active in the professional car business with their Buick coaches for decades, only built one prototype in 1965, then stopped offering funeral coaches and ambulances and decided to focus solely on the bus business. Joe Summers of Summers Funeral Car Co. in Duncanville, a distributor for Flxible Buicks, bought the professional car toolings from Flxible and opened Trinity Coach Co. to fill this new gap. Unfortunately, this wasn't an utterly successful venture and Trinity only lasted from 1965 to 1968. Summers Funeral Car Co. opened in the early '60s, if not earlier. It was operated by the late Joe Summers and his son Jim. Jim also had the Chrysler-Plymouth dealership in Duncanville at one time but has since sold it. Summers shut down the Duncanville operation for a short time following Joe's death, but Jim has since reopened in DeSoto, TX. Summers also built van and suburban ambulances - both lowtop and hightop - for a number of years after they shut down the Trinity operation. (Parts of this text are taken from old correspondence with my unforgotten teacher and professional car historian Bernie DeWinter IV) If you now attach the Trinity name to these Ford vans, you probably have a source that I didn't know so far. I just explained that these can't be Trinity conversions, but must be Summers conversions from the post-Trinity era instead - which I hadn't seen so far and only knew they existed. That means we both learned something new today!  Update 2024: OK, this one reads 'Ambu-Liner' (by Snyder Ambulance Service), but there must be a connection to Summers Coach somewhere in there - maybe it was them who built the Ambu-Liners for Snyder. More about that here, changing this one to an Ambu-Liner for now. -- Last edit: 2024-01-07 17:08:39 |
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