I tried to hold off as long as I could, but the lure of vintage-sheik oddball junk was too great.  The Time Burglar has come home.

It's not that I wanted this '51 Superior Cadillac ambulance.  I just didn't want anyone else to have it.  I've since learned that it's a former military Navy vehicle, presumably rare with only a few made that year.  I put a battery in it before I loaded it on the trailer and fired the engine on ether.  It lit quick and sounds soooo killer, even with the stock single exhaust.  There's nothing quite like the sound of a vintage '50s V8 exhaling through a factory bullet muffler.  The red beacon flashes and most of the lights and gizmos work.  I'm still figuring how to get the siren to operate.  I guess there's a switch you throw and then it goes off the horn button.  I'll mess with it as time allows, which isn't often.

All of the brakes, steering, clutch linkage, and other high priority items work great.  The e-brake even holds tightly.  From a cursory inspection the only thing it looks like it needs to run is a new fuel pump.  I plan on getting a fuel pump in it eventually so I can drive it around and maybe up to the office.  Until then, it's adorning the driveway in front of my garage, horrifying the nanny and my wife's friends and attracting "Ecto-1" comments from the uninformed.  Mine's a '51 people: the Ghostbuster's Ecto-1 was a '59.