It came only with a pair of SW2 beacons as are shown in most the bars in this thread. That is one very loaded bar! I had forgotten to mention previously about the one Mars bar my small ambulance co. It was eventually replaced with a '63 Pontiac Consort ambulance. A pile of junk when we first got it, though. He said that when we got close to the intersection with that old siren screaming, there were all sorts of little noses pressed up against the plate-glass windows watching us come through! And he said that the siren was vibrating the glass! He was afraid it might shatter, but fortunatley, didn't!! Don't see things like that nowadays.except for the now-more-spectacular displays of the new LED bars! But for it's time, that old wagon was really neat. The guy told us later that the movie had just broken for the intermission as we were making the run. We ended up having to run to the hospital, and because that intersection was so busy, we had the siren totally peaked going into the intersection. ![]() The theater was showing "2001 Space Odyssey" which was quite long and had an intermission. One night he had to work and didn't go to the races we worked on Friday nights. One of our guys worked as a projectionist at a movie theater that was at a busy intersection and right on the path we took to the ER we frequented. The siren, a 77GB Doubletone, went on the right fender, and was that old thing loud! It had been rebuilt and had an oversized motor that really made it scream. We had an alternating flasher connected to the flashing lights with a criss-cross pattern, where the bumper left light flashed with the right roof light, etc. On the front corners of the roof were a pair of blue single-faced Carpenter lights, and there was a pair of the big 6" Unity red sealed beam lights on the bumper. Behind the Mars light was a short-skirted 17 beacon. Thanks, Cyril! What I didn't mention was the rest of the emergency equipment on that old wagon. Turned out to be someone I knew! So when I thanked him, he chuckled and exclaimed that we didn't need him because that blasted "wobbly light" was so bright that he was doing all he could to stay ahead of it w/o it blinding him. When we finally "landed" at the ER and got our patient unloaded, we came out and I went to thank the deputy for the escort. This guy took off like a scalded ape, and it was all we could do to keep up with him. Surprisingly enough, we ran that old light for a long time and it never hurt the old 6-volt motor: but did it ever get up and move! One night we were transporting a patient from the local racetrack when all of a sudden a sheriff's unit jumps in front of us to escort us. Beacon Ray light in place of the old bulb and mounted the light on the front center of the ambulance roof (an old '60 Chevy wagon BTW). ![]() This old light had been 6-volt, with a standard auto. The DL series was a figure-8 light w/o the extra "wobble" of an 888, and was a bulb-reflector setup. Welcome aboard, Jenny! That center mounted 888 reminds me of an old Mars DL8 that we had on an ambulance in the early '70s.
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