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Tue Aug 17, 2010 10:23 pm

It's finaly here after a couple of months of waiting my 61 ambulance has fianly arived from Saskatoon Saskatchewan Canada. As I understand it this was one of two in the Saskatchewan area. I didn't find out where it's life started but later on it was used as a meat delivery van. It was sitting in a scrap yard for some time before it was picked up by the owner I got it from. It shows 94 thousand miles on the od.

Tue Aug 17, 2010 10:25 pm

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Wed Aug 18, 2010 7:00 am

Nice chrome bling!

Wed Aug 18, 2010 7:13 am

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Wed Aug 18, 2010 7:55 am

nice ambulance, good luck on the project..

Wed Aug 18, 2010 10:24 am

too bad the inside looks stripped. good luck finding all that you need to complete it! 8)

Wed Aug 18, 2010 11:14 am

The second owner took the term "meat wagon" literally. :D

Wed Aug 18, 2010 12:45 pm

cool bus

Wed Aug 18, 2010 3:01 pm

Very cool bus.......

Wed Aug 18, 2010 7:22 pm

The things that are missing don't bother me. I don't intend on making it a useable ambulance again. The look of it is cool in itself in the sea of 21's and 23's this thing will stick out. When was the last time you saw an ambulance in a show. I think I remember one at the classic in the late 90's fairly rare item in any condition.

Wed Aug 18, 2010 7:36 pm

you going to camp in it at the sac bug o rama in a couple weeks? :lol:

Wed Aug 18, 2010 7:38 pm

THe hooks are great. So, an ambulance repurposed as a butcher shop delivery vehicle? that is awesome.

Wed Aug 18, 2010 7:42 pm

Hey Mitch could this be the other one? http://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail.php?id=988214

Wed Aug 18, 2010 9:23 pm

Good luck on the project! Keep us posted. :wink:

Wed Aug 18, 2010 9:45 pm

tubdub wrote: you going to camp in it at the sac bug o rama in a couple weeks? :lol:

Looks like an ambulance might be really well suited to camping. Cool project - I always like the unusual models. Good luck with it, and post more pics!

Wed Aug 18, 2010 9:48 pm

Cool project. What's going on here?

Wed Aug 18, 2010 11:33 pm

Sump oil heater for cold-weather areas.

Thu Aug 19, 2010 7:34 am

I have followed that 59 ambulance since it was in WA without the strechers and half the price. You can't deny that is one awesome bus. I wanted that one first but the price was out of my league. I wanted a cool rare bus to cruise around in. A split bus gets a ton of looks a split ambulance all painted white and the red crosses is out of this world. I want to find the missing jail bars and misc handles that are missing but I don't have a use for the strechers. I wouldn't turn a pair away but the chance of finding them would be less than a needle in a hay stack. The spring bugorama is my goal. I have a motor and this weekend I'm shooting to replace the 4 doors and possibly fix the dog leg so the front door will close again.