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Ford Ambulance US Air Force flight crew transport
Topic Started: Dec 16 2013, 06:04 PM (695 Views)
SSChevyman
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mbx64
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Wow. What a nice Matchbox model. :thumbup:

I would probably kill for MB771 '09 Ford E-350 Ambulance to have a metal-body like that.
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Douglas
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Nice model Dave, I didn't get this when it was out, either I never seen one at a store or just didn't have the money to spend at the time, but wished I'd had found one, then 3-4 years ago or so I ran across one in a blister at a flea market for $5 and grabbed it...I was happy. :D
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One of the more subtle uses for this one, but looks great. I've never seen it before.
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Dec 16 2013, 06:24 PM
Nice model Dave, I didn't get this when it was out, either I never seen one at a store or just didn't have the money to spend at the time, but wished I'd had found one, then 3-4 years ago or so I ran across one in a blister at a flea market for $5 and grabbed it...I was happy. :D
Good deal!!
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I don't think this was one of the easier ones to find in the Premiere series. I never saw it in stores and got mine in a deal with another collector a few years back. Since my father had been in the USAF for close to 30 years it was high on my want list and was glad when I finally added it to my collection - my only wish that it had been a USAF Ambulance rather than the flight crew transport.
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Dec 16 2013, 06:23 PM
Wow. What a nice Matchbox model. :thumbup:

^This. Too bad I never saw the premier lines at my neck of the woods......we never had any of the premium series (superfast, etc)
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SSChevyman
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My Kmarts had huge stock of these back in the day when Matchbox cared about distribution!!
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It was very hard to find in the stores. I never did. And our stores around seemed to have plenty of the Premieres. I finally found one on a certain auction site.
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SeberHusky
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On first look, I thought it was a custom! A bus would make more sense, like the School Bus, but unless this was meant to be a base station ambulance reserved only for USAF personnel it would be more fitting. Using an ambulance casting as a shuttle bus is kind of wonky.
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Theory was it was for the U2 spy plane pilots who fly at high altitudes like the space shuttle crew members also have special transport.
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I didn't know about this one...what a well kept secret!
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