1952-59 Ford Fords from the past.

Anyone explain what's going on in that photo?

 

looks like an ambulance/fire rescue unit. chains, jacks, stretchers, axes, oxygen, radios.

 

The large jacks to the left are railroad jacks it stated in the captions,yes it is an early ambulance rescue unit.

 

I found this on the vintage shots thread. Does anyone know any info about where & who it is? I tried to magnify the tags on front bumper but couldn't read them. Apparently LE of some type but I don't recollect seeing that 'fleet unique' color combo before.

 

That's a pretty interesting color combo.

 

That is a nice fleet. My guess is that it is a campus security unit by the setting. There are no markings on the cars and the officers aren't wearing weapons. Most LE fleets didn't use the top-line cars, either.

 

I wonder if the interior color combination was just as weird.

 

I think this is Dearborn Michigan

 

That's a lot of cops.

 

Heck of a place to put lights(fenders)!

 

I like the color combo on this '52. Very typical of the pastels available in the mid 50s.

 

Mid 60's Knoxville,Tn dirt trackin'

 

is that a bug guard?

 

On the '53? Yup. Ugly but effective.

 

Mother-in-law's underwear...

 

Nothing like bullet bra to show off your****ets

 

Esp with a Five-Head like that. Ol' Forehead Moorehead, as she was called in High School.

 

Back in NASCAR's glory days, I think this was the Holman/Moody shop, prepping '56 Fords for Curtis Turner and Fireball Roberts.

 

I do believe that is a drive in I went to in the 60's. If the pic was taken from further back I would know for sure. I'm not sure if Richards was a chain or just a one off, but I think that is in Cambridge, Mass. next to the Charles river. I can't remember which road was on the Cambridge side, but it's either Storrow Drive or Memorial Dr. The other side of the Charles being the Boston side. A forum friend's ( on the '57 site ) wife worked there as a car hop during the years I visited.....lol, maybe that's her in the pic. I passed it nightly when I was going to (Ben)Franklin Intitute of Technology in Boston.
If that is in fact the Richard's I know, that building next to it was IBM, and I think where the first main-frame computer was built covering two city blocks!!
"I love that dirty water..."

 

It indeed appears to be the same place...: https://www.flickr.com/photos/87362701@N00/391721511