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[ccurzio]

If you want to save a few bucks and you're no too picky about accuracy, this is for sale near me:

Eww. You'd have to be not at all picky about accuracy since that's just a stock white ambulance with a ghostbusters logo slapped on it. That's awful.

[thirdmanj]

the Nerd is strong in this thread.

[Jonathan]

Auction is up to $18k at the moment.

[Kenny_Z]

This shouldn't annoy you since it's correct. The Miller-Meteor Caddy was actually used as both, and it was an intentional stylistic choice on the part of the GB producers. (You haul dead things in the back of a hearse. So that's what the Ghost Busters did too.)

I totally forgot about that scene and the curtains. I was always going by the fact it had lights and a siren when Ray bought it You can haul dead things in the back of an ambulance too

[dustybarn]

The curtains in the back kind of tell a story of how a low-end funeral home must have purchased an old MM ambulance (hence the sirens and light) and then converted it to be used as a hearse before Ray bought it. That would also explain the massively inflated cost that Ray paid for it, too.

Hmm. Years ago I had a '73 Pontiac ambulance that was my daily driver for a couple of years. It was always an ambulance (it had a much higher roof and additional cabinetry for equipment) but was equipped with curtains just like those. I don't know about Miller-Meteor but Superior certainly built their ambulances with curtains.

[ccurzio]

It probably wasn't black though. At least when it was in use as an ambulance.