1970 Ford Club Wagon Window Super Van

1970 Ford Club Wagon in Beyond Westworld, TV Series, 1980 Ep. 1.03

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supcoach ◊ 2021-01-18 19:28	1969 model?? -- Last edit: 2021-02-10 20:33:30
dhill_cb7 ◊ 2021-01-18 19:45	Believe earlier Ambulances were Club Wagons. Animatronixx mentioned the reasoning before. Believe it had to do with the “idea of being brought to the after life in style” instead of a plane jane Econoline. I could be wrong. Animatronixx can chime in
Animatronixx ◊ 2021-01-18 20:25	Oh my goth! NO!! No, no, no! Really not! “Being brought to the after life in style” could be Justin Bieber lyrics, but not my words. Especially as ambulances never aim to carry their passengers over into an unarguably worse state of well-being - they only have to if something went terribly wrong. I wrote Psychological reasons played an important role: Patients were still mainly used to Cadillac or Pontiac ambulances back in the day. Various ambulance services (and manufacturers) tried to give their vanbulances - obvious utility vehicles - the appearance of something that was definitely meant to be carrying people rather than cargo. A bit more passenger car-like styling can subtly improve the patient's confidence in the people surrounding and taking care of him in a situation he most likely wouldn't have chosen himself. That's quite a different tone, right? And an explanation why an ambulance service might choose the Club Wagon over an Econoline, but I wrote that about a 1969 Ford van, when van-based ambulances were still a somewhat new chapter. I'm not saying "Econoline ambulances don't exist.", though.

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supcoach

◊ 2021-01-18 19:28

1969 model??

-- Last edit: 2021-02-10 20:33:30

dhill_cb7

◊ 2021-01-18 19:45

Believe earlier Ambulances were Club Wagons. Animatronixx mentioned the reasoning before. Believe it had to do with the “idea of being brought to the after life in style” instead of a plane jane Econoline.
I could be wrong. Animatronixx can chime in

Animatronixx

◊ 2021-01-18 20:25

Oh my goth! :wow:

NO!! No, no, no! Really not! “Being brought to the after life in style” could be Justin Bieber lyrics, but not my words. Especially as ambulances never aim to carry their passengers over into an unarguably worse state of well-being - they only have to if something went terribly wrong.

I wrote

Psychological reasons played an important role: Patients were still mainly used to Cadillac or Pontiac ambulances back in the day. Various ambulance services (and manufacturers) tried to give their vanbulances - obvious utility vehicles - the appearance of something that was definitely meant to be carrying people rather than cargo. A bit more passenger car-like styling can subtly improve the patient's confidence in the people surrounding and taking care of him in a situation he most likely wouldn't have chosen himself.

That's quite a different tone, right?

And an explanation why an ambulance service might choose the Club Wagon over an Econoline, but I wrote that about a 1969 Ford van, when van-based ambulances were still a somewhat new chapter. I'm not saying "Econoline ambulances don't exist.", though.

1970 Ford Club Wagon Window Super Van

1970 Ford Club Wagon in Beyond Westworld, TV Series, 1980 Ep. 1.03

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