L117's old rig?

[mercurygrandmarquis1]

i found this on a picture car site and it seems like FDNY spec if you look at the grill you can see 117 but im not 100% sure if this is authentic or just made up to look like an FDNY truck at one point. the year could be wrong because a few of the years on some of there other cars are off. can anyone confirm this as an authentic FDNY truck?
http://www.pixxcars.com/ViewImage.asp?DOCID=4192&NUMPAGES=1

 

[guitarman314]

Yes, it was L117's 1982 Mack 75 ft. Aerialscope #MT8203. A photo of it can be seen on page 27 in the 1990 edition of "Guide to New York City Fire Apparatus"

 

[mercurygrandmarquis1]

thanks Tom. makes you wonder how many other former FDNY rigs are sitting on movie car lots. but this place also has a former NYC*EMS ambulance (possibly a few ex-NYPD cars too)
http://www.pixxcars.com/ViewImage.asp?DOCID=4310&NUMPAGES=6

 

[memory master]

Close, very close but no cigar on that ambulance. It is made up to look like a FDNY unit, however check where the decal depicting the department was on the right side passenger door. It is a circle. FDNY logo is not a circle. Secondly, the truck has a "Chevy" moniker on the grille. NYC units were of the GMC production. And lastly, that unit is a 1988 and at that time NYC-EMS was orange/white with a blue stripe.

 

[mercurygrandmarquis1]

Close, very close but no cigar on that ambulance. It is made up to look like a FDNY unit, however check where the decal depicting the department was on the right side passenger door. It is a circle. FDNY logo is not a circle. Secondly, the truck has a "Chevy" moniker on the grille. NYC units were of the GMC production. And lastly, that unit is a 1988 and at that time NYC-EMS was orange/white with a blue stripe.

take the paint job out of the equation all together. emergency vehicles owned by movie lots get repainted depending on what there rented out for. look at this in-service unit and you can see that the pushbar and lighting set up are identical.
NYC EMS 449

 

[memory master]

Ok

 

[downtownmedic]

That is definetely an old NYC EMS ambulance...the ligting package was very unique for its day, and that one is dead-on.  The 1988/89 ambulances were also indeed Chevy's - the GMC's were from  the mid-80's (1984/85 I believe).  FDNY did repaint the orange stripe red on all of these, but a few of them did receive full repaints for use in various support functions. 

 

[mercurygrandmarquis1]

Downtownmedic i have 2 quick questions regarding the 1980s NYC*EMS ambulances for you or anyone else that knows
1. who made the bodies?
2. there were 2 lighting setups in the 80s. one that was on the ambulance that is being discussed and the other with the fullsize lightbar (pictured below) do you by any chance know which was used first and when it was phased out for the other set up?

(NFD2004 Photo)

 

[downtownmedic]

On the 1984/85 GMC's, the bodies were built by Horton.  There were also some older GMC's, possibly 1982? (not sure) that had an almost identical light package - minor differences...but the grille and headlights were different than the 1984/85's.  The 1988's had the lighting package with two half bars on the front of the box - they were built by Southern Coach.  The 1989's went back to Horton.