LWB D24 coach

[Uncle-Pekka]

When surfing in the web, I came across this picture:

 

It is not photoshopped, but built by Canadian coachbuilder J.C.Little:

"John J.C. Little (1888-1971) started his career as a coachbuilder at Canada's largest coachbuilder, the O.J. Mitchell Hearse Company of Ingersoll, Ontario. He built his first home-built coach sometime in 1937 and by 1940 had saved up enough money to open his own body shop. From his small shop, which was located in the service bays of an Ingersoll Shell station, Little produced a series of hand-built professional coaches until he closed in the late Fifties. He specialized in modifying regular wheelbase production vehicles into sedan-ambulances and funeral cars.

Little's long-wheelbase coaches were built using the same techniques used by today's stretch limousine builders. He typically took a regular wheelbase  coupe or sedan and cut it in half through the center of the B-pillar. He then extended the chassis and drivetrain and inserted a hand-made section between the exposed halves of the car. The custom-built section was securely welded to the body, and the resulting seams were filled with lead, sanded smooth, and then primed and painted. His small size made him unable to purchase the purpose-built commercial chassis that larger manufacturers used under their professional cars."

 

I wonder, if any of the J.C.Little built LWB Dodge or Chrysler cars has survived until now?

Any of you guys ever seen such?
It is much longer than the factory 7-passenger sedan.

[Frank Elder]

I posted the same thread a few years ago on here...the back half is from a 2 door sedan grafted onto the LWB dodge...and of course...I want one!

[Uncle-Pekka]

So do I Frank!

However, nobody raised hand for ever have seen one alive...?

 

Distantly related - even if these may be based on the factory 7-passenger car? DeSoto S-11 ambulances

 

Edited February 6, 2015 by Uncle-Pekka

[Roadkingcoupe]

Poor mans ambulance & Business Coupe P/U conversion (not ute).

 

patient loaded through the trunk....attendant conveniently sits beside the patient.

 

 

Edited February 6, 2015 by Roadkingcoupe

[Frank Elder]

They took the LWB Uncle and called it an ambulance...it had a removable B pillar so you could put the stretcher in easier... I know the rear jump seat was removed on the stretcher side also, I am not certain about the rest.