Ambu Build

[bobtail4x4]

Blanchards' selling the Ambus for GBP895 which is $1336 right now. Interestingly they also have a Centaur!

cheers

If anyone wants photos of them I can call over, but only if you are serious about them, they are bad.:Wow1:

 

[Yorker]

I think Ike Goss had some ambulance bodies a while back.

 

[110user]

I think Ike Goss had some ambulance bodies a while back.

I'm not sure he has any more. I got the last of his excess parts and bits last week.

here is one for sale... a few months old though.

http://www.roversnorth.com/forums/showthread.php?t=8262&highlight=ambulance

 

[Yorker]

I'm not sure he has any more. I got the last of his excess parts and bits last week.

here is one for sale... a few months old though.

http://www.roversnorth.com/forums/showthread.php?t=8262&highlight=ambulance

That one sold and I think is headed to NM later this month.

Ambulance bodies are funny for the longest time you couldn't give them away, when the last spike in scrap aluminum occurred i know of a few that got scrpped.

 

[UnfrozenCaveman]

I thought there was still one near Pendy's place.

Anyone have contact info for Jim Merriam?

No, I didn't get one with my bitsa truck from RN.

 

[Oilburner]

Guys, I also wanted to so this about 5 years ago but the weight stopped me from doing it. These bodies are absolutely unbelieveably heavy. Check the weight before you decide you want one, I could not justify carrying around an extra 2500 lbs ++.

 

[Yorker]

Have you seen the website of the Belgian couple who explored South America with their 109 ambulance? I can't find it right now but it is out there on the net- very interesting.

 

[110user]

Check the weight before you decide you want one, I could not justify carrying around an extra 2500 lbs ++.

I dont know about others, but mine is not that heavy, 3 people were able to lift it fine. It actually sits almost the same height on my soft set of springs springs as the SW body did (as measured from the frame to axle). So it cant weight much more.
I dont know if there is any difference by mine is a 1980.

 

[110user]

Have you seen the website of the Belgian couple who explored South America with their 109 ambulance? I can't find it right now but it is out there on the net- very interesting.

No, but please forward the site!

 

[Yorker]

No, but please forward the site!

I looked for it last night but the Belgian site they had their build and trip thread on seems to be gone. I think I have their email address- if I can find it I'll email them and see if they have them up anywhere.

I never weighed the ambulance body- it did seem rather heavy though. The unladen weight of an ambulance vs a regular GS might be out there on the net somewhere. In any case you are eating up more of your GVW but that is always a tradeoff with something like that.

EMLRA article on ambulances:
http://www.emlra.org/vehicles/Marshall Feature.pdf

Another link with some Ambulance pics and data- I'm not positive the ambulance data is correct:

http://www.crusader80.co.uk/lightvehicles.html

 

[Yorker]

The website appears to be gone, the last Email I got from Bernard is here:

From: audreyetbernardhotmail.com
To:
Subject: RE: Land Rover Ambulance
Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2008 17:58:19 +0100

Hello matt,

No problems with axles, just brakes are not very good and difficult to adjust.

We have One Ton springs, front and rear, and it s too much for the front.

I think that parabolic springs for the front ant original One Tone springs for the rear (with 2 springs less by each side) will be perfect.
The SII Ambulance, full charged: 3 tons.

We can continue this conversation on the forum http://www.minervaabl.be/phpBB2/index.php in english, no problems.

King regards

Bernard

I also know that Jared Ivy weighed his unladen 109 ambulance and it was ~4600 lbs running weight.

 

[Oilburner]

I also know that Jared Ivy weighed his unladen 109 ambulance and it was ~4600 lbs running weight.

A regular GS is 3300 lbs as per the RN catalog, the wagons are 3700 ish.

 

[110user]

EMLRA article on ambulances:
http://www.emlra.org/vehicles/Marshall Feature.pdf

Another link with some Ambulance pics and data- I'm not positive the ambulance data is correct:

http://www.crusader80.co.uk/lightvehicles.html

Thanks or those. Great write up.

According to my dutch ambulance manual, with 90 liters of fuel and a full complement of ambulance stuff( I am assuming medical gear) it the 109 diesel version weighs 4723lbs.

When we did in South America. With fuel, Water, food, spares etc... we weighed a smidge under 3000kg. I think I can do this one lighter, because that was too heavy.

 

[KingSlug]

Cool ambulance!!!

I havent done it yet, but I got an extra cubby door from Ike (the amby body Ike had is somewhere in SE Oregon now, it might be Merriman's?) and a 101FC fuel filler from the UK, so when I mount the door the filler wil be inside and match the door on the LH rear.

Your amby body looks to be a RAF version as you have the sink.

I would love to find a few more parts for my amby like: another sliding window, and a bit of roof drip edge. I need to trade the the interior blackout light lens so I have a matching pair.

My signature has a few links in it to ambulance sites.

Jared

 

[The Swiss]

Very nice how the Marshal body fits on the 110!!! Love it!! Had a Series IIA Ambulance myself back in college and sold it because with it's 2.6 liter I6, it was not an ideal daily driver for a college student budget. Plus the gear box was coming out of 2nd gear, the leaf springs were rusted solid and everything that remotely contained oil seeped oil. Nothing unusual for a vehicle of that age, but too much for what my budget was able to handle.

Now, I'd love to have it back as a project vehicle