 Shades of Ghostbusters! Can you have a bling ambulance? If you can
this is it. God knows how practical it was for transporting injured and
sick people. In the UK at this time we had very tall cream-coloured Commers and Bedfords that you could walk about in - the Yanks
(we are led to believe) had these stylish pieces of mobile architecture to take your
granny to hospital. However it does remind you quite a bit of the hearse
in Diamonds are Forever.
From 1962 to 1966
the ambulance had been cream over dark red, in 1966 the design was revised and it was
recoloured to pale blue over white and metallic red over metallic silver. The
later releases tend to get the better prices. The model was finally deleted in
1968.
My example? Its a wreck really. Dirty,
playworn and all the electric gubbins missing. I've got one of the earlier red
ones which is a bit better, but I really think I'll live with this one
in my collection as it's not really a model that gets me going.
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