1958 Cadillac (Wagon? Camper? Ambulance?)

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  1. teej

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    58 Info = 1958 FRANKLIN AMBULANCE

    A majority of their vehicles were built using General Motors products, and during the late 50s they built a small number of modular ambulances on Cadillac chassis for suburban rescue squads that wanted to use Cadillac chassis. Two 1955 Cadillacs were built for the town of Belmar, New Jersey (just south of Asbury Park) and one each for the Spring Lake, and Manasquan New Jersey First Aid Squads. In 1958, the Point Pleasant, New Jersey First Aid & Emergency Squad ordered a 1958 Cadillac-chassised modular Franklin ambulance.
    When forward control vans appeared in the early 60s, Franklin was amongst the first to convert them to ambulance, wheelchair, school bus and police duty and even offered van-based hearses and first call cars. They also converted station wagons to rescue, funeral and civil defense uses and even built a flower car using a 1960 Chevrolet El Camino.
     
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    Yeah, but none the less this is a 'what the?', interesting conversion compared to many others from the time.


    It's so fugly yet it's so honest.....I'd love it!

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    So what was it? Looks like a paddy wagon, fire ,and ambulance all in one.

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    Not for everyone, but I kinda like it(y)
     
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    The perfect vintage vehicle to take your Mother In Law on a holiday with you
     
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    look at the door it's from Braille they didn't know how ugly it was either!
     
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    love an ugly duckling :thumbs2:
     
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    ModelT1 Still Lost in the 50's

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    I love it! A few years back----- a lot of years back------ I would loved to make a camper out of that and used it to go to car shows farther away.
     
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    Interesting on the amount of work it took on the rear end to incorporate and retain the Cadillac look coming past the the square box design. Definitely a lot of work went into it.
     
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    I want it.
     
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    Actually, that's Brielle, New Jersey.

    Having a hard time figuring this one out, but appears to be a multi-function vehicle for a smaller municipality that doesn't have the funds (or population base) to have a police paddy wagon and a separate ambulance. Looks like it may have been adapted from an already used limo or hearse platform. I'm thinking this may have been done sometime in the mid 60's - the 'box' looks a bit more modern to have been from '58.
     
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    Looks like the back half of a Divco milk truck.
     
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