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74 Miller Meteor
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Posing a vehicle at station 21 signifies the exterior restoration is done. Here is my first project: a 1974 Miller Meteor "Criterion" ambulance on a Cadillac chassis. I owned this vehicle from March of 98 to January of 99. It is currently owned by A.J. Heightman, publisher of the Journal of Emergency Medical Service. (San Diego, CA). I was the first collector to own it after it came out of service in Washington State. This was a 4 patient vehicle.
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68 Superior
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At the time, Station 21 was known as Station 31, and Engine 21 was Engine 31 and was an E-One ladder truck. The station is about 20 years old and is built from a blue print that the county owns and reused in two other places. It serves a large residential area as well as a very long and accident-prone strip of I-75
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66 GMC Rescue truck
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1966 GMC rescue truck: The only thing I had to do to this truck after buying it was to do the engine compartment and the interior. Originally it was a greenish gold phone company truck and was sold or given to the Richland Fire Dept. in New Jersey. I owned it from January of 2003 to about September.
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70 National Suburban
This ambulance had never seen real service- it was used by an EMT academy in Bergen County, NJ. It ended up being an extremely unique project as my son-in-law Dave Miner convinced me that he and I could do a complete restoration inside and out. We took ALL the paint off the exterior, gutted the interior (gutted!) and converted what was a mint green vehicle (inside and out) to red and white. This took most weekends between January and July of 2004.
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Ambulance floor linoleum
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Entire new interior! The windshiled was the only glass replaced but the rubber gaskets on the long side windows were replaced. Dave built the cabinetry. I had the cushions and wall segments upholstered and bought enough extra vinyl to cover all the other surfaces. We installed an aircraft material headliner.
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67 Superior
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On June 26, 2005, I traded the Suburban for this Superior Sovereign Combination (hearse/ambulance) on a 1967 Pontiac chassis. It had been owned by various funeral homes in Texas. The first collector to own it was Skip Goulet, followed by Dr. Jon VanDermark (USN) who restored it as a US Navy ambulance. I sold it to a funeral director in Gulfport, MS in February of 2006. I had bought the Pirsch fire truck days before (on ebay). The buyer of this car flew to Sarasota and then drove it back home.
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You can see about six of the (casket) roller mechanisms in this photo. The shiney side up is flat chrome; There is a small release botton that allows it to flip and a rubber roller flips up. There are upright plates (bier pins) that go into a bar on the floor to keep the casket from moving. You can see the back of a jump seat on the passenger side. This folds over, and folds again. This gets the seat out of the way and the bottom of the seat has the same linoleum, and extends the floor all the way to the right side door.
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MASH vodka is a standard on my ambulances. This was my last ambulance for about 14 months. I crossed over to the fire truck world. I bought my Pirsh on ebay in Janaury of 2006. I flew to Savannah to pick it up from the collector who owned it. I'm the 3rd collector to own it, and the first to do a restoration.
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1968 Pirsch Canopy Cab Pumper
My first fire pumper- my 68 Peter Pirsch & Sons Pumper. Since taking this photo, I replaced the roof light with a Federal "hill" light, removed the flood lights, installed a deluge gun and a stokes basket.
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