It's the smallest of our four trucks.

Starts right up, runs fine, but as you'll notice the cot is all the way against the left side of the patient compartment. Our other trucks we have walking room all the way around the stretcher.

(Okay, okay, you should see what passes for a fire engine on this side of the pond :)

Or, at least, that would be my not-especially-informed take on why what you seem to be implying wouldn't work.

Josh Baker meets a very special woman, Cheryl, in the streets of New York. Suddenly she collapses, and she's picked up by an ambulance. When Josh wants to visit her in the hospital, it appears that she hasn't been admitted in the hospital. Josh follows the roommate of Cheryl, and she disappears after a ride in the same ambulance. It's up to Josh to solve the secret behind this strange vehicle.

One of Larry Cohen's better efforts, if I remember correctly. Certainlybetter than "Q", which had a winged serpent hiding inide the roof of the Chrysler Building.

So that particular ambulance has the general front-end shape of any ordinary motor car, but it isn't.

And, here in the UK, the pattern for large vehicles has been mostly forward-control, with no huge engine sticking out the front, for around sixty years.

OK, perceptions can be misleading. I used to drive a Land Rover, and it intimidated other drivers in car parks, but it took up less ground-space than the current Mini--you just looked down on everything.

You think that's a huge vehicle, search for pictures of Oshkosh fire-crash-rescue trucks. Large enough to get to any point on an airport within minutes, in spite of any fences that may be in the way.

My kids are quite fond of the nearby ladder truck at Station 5 here in Springfield OH.

I worked as a temp one summer at an ambulance manufacturing company-- I have a deep appreciation for exactly how many nooks and crannies there are in your standard rig.

Hey, I was thinking of the same idea for my weblog:-) Just scaled up. Anyone know if there's a surplus Looking Glass in the desert somewheres?

My father-in-sin drives a hearse to Winfield with the same idea. Terrible gas mileage, but was cheaper to buy than an RV. It has a lot fewer miles on it than a comparable ambulance. It is just big enough for a bed in the back, with electrical hookups for a fridge (diabetic) and CPAP.

Actually, you know what? Don't answer that question.

Is the gentleman in question by any chance Don Shorock?

Brennen @ 33:
Yes.

For some reason, the rear body is light-tight.

My Inner Redneck likes the idea.

I believe Homer Simpson would want this, too.

Coincidentally, the first movie I ever saw with Eric Roberts in also featured an ambulance. He was the ambulance driver in that one, and got killed by the alien slime monster about a third of the way in.

As my library grows, I'll just add more bookmobiles to the driveway.

I really can't. Write a letter to the address given, and ask.

Asking $10K.

Well, they won't be laughing when I show them the headline that reads, "Si Adams Saves Hundreds of Lives With Used Ambulance!" and remind them that it could have been US saving THOUSANDS of lives (after all, we have more people than Vermont, so the imaginary potential for lives saved is MUCH higher)...

...sigh...

Oh, and this job is still open, too.

Here's the ad at Ambulance Trader.