1st Gen appearence in a Movie
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Anyone here old enough to remember this show? I was a kid when it was on, but I do remember it well. It appears that I had a fascination with Dodge trucks back then as well, although I had no idea until a few years ago, that my subconscious brought me full circle.
It's not a "diesel", but if the show was on a few years later, it would have been... Good old SQUAD 51. I was thummin through the channels today, and it was on the ME network. The guys were saving some dude caught sleeping in a junkyard when the cars collapsed on the vehicle he was in.
Great watching those old shows with all those old cars and truck is it. IF you have an hour and a half to kill, you can watch the pilot show here:
The vehicle which represented Squad 51 was constructed by Universal crews and was an accurate replica of the units built in-house on stock truck chassis by LACoFD at the time. The LACoFD shops were unable to fulfill a request from Universal to build a unit for the show within the short deadline the studio asked, but did provide the blueprints. This conversion was subsequently completed on a 1973 and 1974 Dodge D300 chassis as well. The replica's accuracy is evident that the white light atop the "Twinsonic" lightbar was part of the blueprint, but never installed by LAcoFD on its departmental units. This light was supposed to differentiate paramedic units from regular rescue units. After the filming of the show, the studio donated the unit to LACoFD in 1978, which pressed it into occasional service as a reserve unit before it was eventually retired from service.
In 1999, LACoFD donated the Universal-built squad to the Los Angeles County Fire Museum, which restored it and put it on display.[1][2]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency!
It's not a "diesel", but if the show was on a few years later, it would have been... Good old SQUAD 51. I was thummin through the channels today, and it was on the ME network. The guys were saving some dude caught sleeping in a junkyard when the cars collapsed on the vehicle he was in.
Great watching those old shows with all those old cars and truck is it. IF you have an hour and a half to kill, you can watch the pilot show here:
The vehicle which represented Squad 51 was constructed by Universal crews and was an accurate replica of the units built in-house on stock truck chassis by LACoFD at the time. The LACoFD shops were unable to fulfill a request from Universal to build a unit for the show within the short deadline the studio asked, but did provide the blueprints. This conversion was subsequently completed on a 1973 and 1974 Dodge D300 chassis as well. The replica's accuracy is evident that the white light atop the "Twinsonic" lightbar was part of the blueprint, but never installed by LAcoFD on its departmental units. This light was supposed to differentiate paramedic units from regular rescue units. After the filming of the show, the studio donated the unit to LACoFD in 1978, which pressed it into occasional service as a reserve unit before it was eventually retired from service.
In 1999, LACoFD donated the Universal-built squad to the Los Angeles County Fire Museum, which restored it and put it on display.[1][2]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency!
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Anyone here old enough to remember this show? I was a kid when it was on, but I do remember it well. It appears that I had a fascination with Dodge trucks back then as well, although I had no idea until a few years ago, that my subconscious brought me full circle.
It's not a "diesel", but if the show was on a few years later, it would have been... Good old SQUAD 51. I was thummin through the channels today, and it was on the ME network. The guys were saving some dude caught sleeping in a junkyard when the cars collapsed on the vehicle he was in.
Great watching those old shows with all those old cars and truck is it. IF you have an hour and a half to kill, you can watch the pilot show here:
The vehicle which represented Squad 51 was constructed by Universal crews and was an accurate replica of the units built in-house on stock truck chassis by LACoFD at the time. The LACoFD shops were unable to fulfill a request from Universal to build a unit for the show within the short deadline the studio asked, but did provide the blueprints. This conversion was subsequently completed on a 1973 and 1974 Dodge D300 chassis as well. The replica's accuracy is evident that the white light atop the "Twinsonic" lightbar was part of the blueprint, but never installed by LAcoFD on its departmental units. This light was supposed to differentiate paramedic units from regular rescue units. After the filming of the show, the studio donated the unit to LACoFD in 1978, which pressed it into occasional service as a reserve unit before it was eventually retired from service.
In 1999, LACoFD donated the Universal-built squad to the Los Angeles County Fire Museum, which restored it and put it on display.[1][2]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency!
It's not a "diesel", but if the show was on a few years later, it would have been... Good old SQUAD 51. I was thummin through the channels today, and it was on the ME network. The guys were saving some dude caught sleeping in a junkyard when the cars collapsed on the vehicle he was in.
Great watching those old shows with all those old cars and truck is it. IF you have an hour and a half to kill, you can watch the pilot show here:
The vehicle which represented Squad 51 was constructed by Universal crews and was an accurate replica of the units built in-house on stock truck chassis by LACoFD at the time. The LACoFD shops were unable to fulfill a request from Universal to build a unit for the show within the short deadline the studio asked, but did provide the blueprints. This conversion was subsequently completed on a 1973 and 1974 Dodge D300 chassis as well. The replica's accuracy is evident that the white light atop the "Twinsonic" lightbar was part of the blueprint, but never installed by LAcoFD on its departmental units. This light was supposed to differentiate paramedic units from regular rescue units. After the filming of the show, the studio donated the unit to LACoFD in 1978, which pressed it into occasional service as a reserve unit before it was eventually retired from service.
In 1999, LACoFD donated the Universal-built squad to the Los Angeles County Fire Museum, which restored it and put it on display.[1][2]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency!
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Weather channels Highway through hell had a 93 w250/350 all done up, as it was some kind of rescue vehicle on one of the big jobs they had pulling a truck out of some hole somewhere. Didn't belong to them, as it was some local rescue truck.
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Dejavu with Denzel Washington. He passes one, then about runs headlong into it, when he's in the H2. Later when he's in the ambulance another one pulls into the right lane to let him by.
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Anyone know if this film or rig? I think it played a minor part in a modern cowboy movie as itself. The rodeo guy (John Payne aka: "One Armed Bandit") was filmed doing his show in '95' I assume, and it was edited into the movie maybe?
