1964 Cadillac Ambulance Superior Royale Rescuer [6890Z]
1964 Cadillac Ambulance [6890Z] in Creedence Clearwater Revival: Fortunate Son, Music Video, 2018
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◊ 2021-05-25 14:34 |
63-64 CAdillac |
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◊ 2021-05-25 15:17 |
Arrival of full ID in 3 - 2 - 1 seconds: It's a [6890Z] 1964 Superior-Cadillac Royale Rescuer with 50" headroom and hubcaps from a later model year. |
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◊ 2021-05-25 15:31 |
I wonder if this was converted from a 1965 Fleetwood owing to those '65 style wheel covers. (The 1965 Fleetwood models carried over the 1964 body style.) -- Last edit: 2021-05-25 15:33:55 |
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◊ 2021-05-25 19:39 |
No, I think they chose the easier way of achieving that effect by simply losing the original hubcaps and replacing them with 1965 ones. .gif ";)") The Superior Coach Corp. had just expanded their production facilities to a massive 625.000 square feet the year before and received 1.223 of the 2.527 commercial chassis provided by Cadillac throughout the 1964 model year. They completed 1.671 professional cars in the 1964 model year - that's about 5 units each day, a total of 186 Cadillac ambulances included. These guys were busy. While converting a Fleetwood Series 75 for whatever reason would have been possible, this would have been ridiculously expensive in comparison - with the result looking exactly like the regular high-top ambulances. |
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◊ 2021-05-25 20:46 |
@AnimatronixX:  any interest in a funeral trailer (maybe Pfefferkorn)?Today I met a guy, who wants to get rid of one. Plus 49 other wrecks... |
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◊ 2021-05-25 22:53 |
No, thank you @Ingo. I had four of these, but actually never used any of them. Owner should keep it, if he can - many are being offered, but the demand is rather low. |
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◊ 2021-05-25 23:08 |
The owner is busy to get rid of the 50 wrecks - because the next days he got some dozens more vehicles. The wrecks were just the junk standing outside. The hall, he has bought, is filled with vehicles, which are included in the deal, too. These vehicles are rather in rough condition - the real classic car collection is stored in six other halls. And none of that collection is for sale. It's not even allowed for visitors. It's a hidden secret collection just for the owner himself. P.S. for explanation: the seller of those 50 wrecks has bought a hall from the owner of this secret collection. -- Last edit: 2021-05-25 23:10:48 |
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◊ 2021-05-26 01:52 |
![[Image: bw1p0p.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/3321/bw1p0p.jpg) Who gets stuffed in a coffin trailer though? I've never even seen that before. |
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◊ 2021-05-26 02:08 |
Nobody gets 'stuffed in' such a trailer, unless the Three Stooges are involved! It was mainly a German (and Norwegian) post-war thing and I recently explained the backstory here -> /movie.php?id=9489734#Comment2876894 |
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◊ 2021-05-26 02:53 |
Yes... I suppose in the days before caravanning it would seem more acceptable. But if the funeral company hadn't the funds for a vehicle they still had a more dignified option: ![[Image: blackpair.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/3321/blackpair.jpg) |
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◊ 2021-05-26 12:11 |
It's also quite uncomfortable for other usage as transporting shopping goods, building material, car parts or garbage, because you cannot open the top or the sides. |
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◊ 2021-05-26 12:13 |
No convertible version then? Sunroof? Air con? -- Last edit: 2021-05-26 12:14:11 |
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◊ 2021-05-26 14:23 |
'If they have no bread, let them eat cake', the 2021 Remix. Operating a horse-drawn hearse in the 2nd half of the 20th Century was (and still is) a very costly, dangerous and inefficient venture and requires even more additional skills and maintenance - not a small rural undertaker's best choice if he wants to get his work done. So he was better off using the modern equivalent, a trailer. Most people weren't spoiled, privileged and saturated with goods and spare time back in the day. Also, they weren't accustomed to caravanning for everyone and his brother, so that wasn't a major issue. The demise of the funeral trailer and its general acceptance started when all that changed and people became that entitled and fully comprehensive insured affluent society we now meet whenever we leave the house. |
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◊ 2021-05-26 21:03 |
My dog walk each day involves walking along the main road to the town crematorium for a distance. Unsighted from the main road I heard hoof beats and when I turned the corner I saw a horse drawn hearse with Rolls-Royce in front and two more behind it, plus a lot of cars driven by mourners. In a side road, which is wide for a residential avenue was parked a very large and immaculate horse box, on a Ford chassis but seemingly big enough to take both the horses and the hearse. This was only a week or two ago, the funeral must have cost someone dearly! -- Last edit: 2021-05-26 21:05:40 |
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◊ 2021-05-26 21:53 |
Do you have East End gangsters in Staffs? |
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◊ 2021-05-27 18:28 |
At the other end of the “county lines” I think. |
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◊ 2021-05-27 18:45 |
The funeral procession I met while driving this morning was quite different, a Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow, in silver grey, a black and maroon Austin Seven type RP, and two Alvis 12/50 open four seaters leading a black Volvo hearse, then a few modern cars. I continued my journey and encountered a late 1920s Riley open four seater in the centre of the Shropshire town of Newport. -- Last edit: 2021-05-27 18:46:26 |
