Hello, Wow, one of the rare 2 door Pontiac white ambulance builds… Here is my friend, Mr. Childers. The many times Iwalked up the return road at Lion’s Dragstrip to get to the ambulance spot for filming, we struck up a friendship. He worked for a company owned by friends of ours from our high school and their family. Dilday Mortuary and Ambulance Services. We went to school with the two brothers, who are now the owners (or parents of) of the services provided back then and now. orange timing tower at Lion's Dragstrip. Mr. Childers and the rare 2 door Pontiac Ambulance “The above picture is typical of a scene one would see if they were to look around any of the drag strips. The driver shown is Mr. C.B. Childers of the Dilday Ambulance Service. His ambulance is provided at the Lions Dragstrip, located at 223rd Street and Alameda Street, Wilmington. An ambulance is provided at every dragstrip to take care of any injury that might occur, even though a strip is the safest place anywhere to take your car to find out the best time it will turn in a quarter mile. These strips are being made safer every day.” Lion’s tower side looking back at the starting line. As anyone can see, there were different models of ambulances for daily use and specialty use. This 2 door Pontiac version came from the Dilday Family Mortuary Ambulance Services. It was not a commercial big city ambulance. It was a 2 door version, but met the needs of Lion’s Dragstrip quite well. Mr. Childers the specialty location by the Orange Timing Tower I found a semi-secret filming area at Lion's Dragstrip that no one else, except one guy with a super telescopic lens on a 35mm camera was using. Over the months I wandered over there, I became friends with Mr. Childers, the famous white Pontiac Ambulance Driver from the local Dilday’s Mortuary Service of Long Beach. The two brothers in their khaki pants and blue nylon jackets talking with Mr. Childers... 1958-59 Jnaki Note from our incident in August of 1960: “I got to the white Pontiac Ambulance and my friend, the attendant, was helping my brother on a stretcher. They were placing my brother into the back of the ambulance. My friend, the attendant, said to “not worry and they will be at the local hospital, (Long Beach Memorial) in the emergency wing.” He said he would wait until I got there.” Thanks, Mr. Childers...
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