Ambulance

PCH, Yankenwagen Me, Krankenwagen Me Edition

We've got a virtual tie in the Playboy Jimmy Versus Heap-O-Triumphs Choose Your Eternity poll, and that's just how we like it. To get such a split, we need to pick two vehicles that trigger roughly equivalent "I must have that!" and "get thee behind me, Satan!" reactions, and today we're shooting for that split with another episode of Ambulance Project Hell. We've had a pair of Project Car Hell Poster Children who achieved that lofty status via, respectively, a '66 Pontiac Ambulance and a '58 Plymouth Ambulance, so we know the ambulance love runs deep here...
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5:30 PM on Wed Nov 21 2007
By Murilee Martin
2,059 views, 52 comments

Latest by DiscoQuinn: @Paul Y: Heck yeah, I'd slap some dubs on it, and sit in the back waving to my hoes as if I was the pope, clearly the roof would allow for much 'hattage'. more »

project car hell poster child

Who Shall Wear The Ambulance Hell Project Crown?

Saab-O-Maniac SeanKHotay won our last PCHPC vote, but now dculberson has stepped up in an attempt to unseat Belvedere Adrian, owner of the '58 Plymouth Ambulance, to take the Ambulance Hell Project trophy for his own! He's got a '66 Pontiac Superior Consort that looks like ~~a never-ending nightmare~~ quite a refreshing challenge... More »

2:30 PM on Fri Oct 26 2007
By Murilee Martin
1,922 views, 55 comments

Latest by n/a: we have the hearse version as our club car. it's in good shape considering age.they are cool looking when there in one piece and you get to drive them good luck!!! more »

project car hell poster child

Moparbulance!

We mentioned our Belvedere-loving friend with the '57 Plymouth ambulance in the Choose Your Eternity Ambulance Edition post, and now he's handed over some photos of his personal Hell Project. It doesn't run, it's rusty, and it's missing all the special ambulance gear... but just imagine this thing with a Cross Ram 413 and a dekotora-class array of flashing colored lights! Even though Adrian has yet to exercise his commenting rights on the site, we're still going to give a Project Car Hell Poster Child Award to him. Any of you who think you deserve the next PCHPCA, send your photos and description to murilee at jalopnik dot com!

12:30 PM on Tue Oct 16 2007
By Murilee Martin
2,138 views, 29 comments

Latest by borovec: Oh man, I recognize the same pushbutton, 2-speed, PowerFlite transmission control that my '57 Plymouth Plaza had. (high, low, neutral, reverse) more »

choose your eternity

Project Car Hell, Caddy Ambulance Edition: '49 or '68?

In the agonizing choice between Italian style and American truckcar goodness, our readers tend to prefer an eternity spent with the three '59 El Caminos to one spent with three '73 Fiats, though the race was pretty close- more Dewey Versus Truman than Mondale Versus Reagan. Today, the choices are inspired by our friend Adrian, who is currently ~~staring hopelessly at~~ gearing up to restore a ~~hopeless basket case of a~~ fairly complete '57 Plymouth ambulance. Hey, it would rule to have a vintage ambulance, right? Sure it would! Ahhh... thus functions the lure of the entrance to Hell!
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5:30 PM on Tue Oct 9 2007
By Murilee Martin
3,078 views, 44 comments

Latest by FuzzyPlushroom: Also, Hinsdale's an old mill town that's gone to Hell, and is mainly inhabited by toothless hicks. That's what pushed it over the line for me. more »

down on the street

Dodge M43 Ambulance

I'm not sure what's up with this neighborhood in Alameda's East End, but the streets have quite a few military vehicles parked in front of Craftsman bungalows. In addition to this Air Force ambulance, there's the Pinzgauer, the Ford GPW Jeep, and another couple of war-wagons I haven't posted yet. Is is some sort of requirement that each block have at least one? Such are the mysteries of the Island City. More »

9:00 AM on Fri Aug 24 2007
By Murilee Martin
5,518 views, 24 comments

theft by prospective lawyer, who'da thunk?

Keep Her Away from J.J. and Victor!

Speaking, as we were, of good ol' ThnderBlt, we noticed that one of his classmates from his rather chichi and exclusive high school made the news recently when she got all hepped up on a booze/Aleve cocktail and stole an ambulance on the Stanford campus. Two paramedics had a drunken student on a stretcher when law student (and Yale grad) Julia Powell hopped into their ambulance and drove off, ditching the emergency vehicle 1,000 feet away. How'd they catch her? She left her cell phone in the footwell. Note to aspiring lawyers: if you absolutely have to steal an ambulance, make sure you take your belongings with you when you exit the vehicle. She's just lucky Dr. Nikolas Van Helsing didn't swipe the phone. That guy'd run up a Verizon bill she'd be paying off for years. – Davey G. Johnson More »

7:30 PM on Mon Jun 11 2007
By Davey G. Johnson
373 views, 10 comments

Latest by metoo: so did she get expelled from stanford? is she a lawyer now? more »

news

Pull Over! Here Comes the Cayennebulance!

Assuming that Germans aren't content to use ambulances derived from sluggish vans or boring station wagons for hauling the sick and injured, Porsche has had a crew of interns create this Cayenne ambulance. If this thing actually makes it into service, we're hoping the drivers will get hefty bonuses for every second saved. High-speed ambulance hoonage! Ingenious shortcuts! – Murilee Martin More »

5:30 PM on Thu May 10 2007
By Murilee Martin
836 views, 20 comments

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