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This 1968 Cadillac ambulance, which doesn’t seem to have been on the road since 1972, was operated by the City of Lakewood, California. Car-based ambulances, normally built by Superior, Miller-Meteor or S&S on Cadillac, Pontiac or Oldsmobile chassis, used to be hugely popular. But their numbers dwindled in the early Seventies when medics started to complain about