by the offers I'm getting for the carcass of this ambulance. Only posted it this afternoon and have 5 hits. 4 just want the box off the back, and would let me sell other parts off before they haul the rest away. Top offer is $500. Another guy wants it to run again and offered $1000 for all of it. I figured I'd have to pay to haul it to a dismantler and be lucky to cover that cost with what they'd pay.

I haven't checked with any of the rip-off shops about what the cat is worth. Couple of sources I found said less than $100. Strange when my little Prius bring $600.

 

Well, I might change my mind about selling the ambulance. Most of my buyers just want the box to use as a storage shed. My brother wants it for that too, but it's too much trouble/cost to have it hauled all the way to his house, and then haul off the carcass after removing the box. But, the last buyer who called yesterday asked about the whole truck, and when I asked what he wanted to do with it, so I could make sure he understood that there's nothing left of the drive train except the rear differential, he told me he wanted to turn the box into a trailer.

Bingo! It would make an awesome trailer. First thought was to just weld a tongue onto the frame, but the rear end is too heavy, and that'd make hauling off the carcass even harder. So doing so research, I now think the best way is to just mount the box on a flatbed trailer, and I just so happen to have a couple I'm not using.

Looking underneath, it seems straightforward. These ambulances boxes are stout to meet federal regs, not like a typical box truck, and it's all aluminum. My trailers have pipe/angle iron rails about a foot high. Since the box is wider than the trailer bed, I can just mount it on those rails to get it over the trailer's fenders. I'd just have to fabricate two trusses to run lengthwise down the bed spaced like the truck's frame with holes to match the box's existing bushings.

I guesstimate the box is about 16' long. I have a 16' and a 20' trailer. I'm thinking I'll mount it on the back of the 20' and leave a 4' storage space in front of it to hold a generator and window AC. The front of the box has the cut-out to get in/out of the cab, and that's where I can mount the AC. Recall, I call this an ambulance, but the Red Cross uses them like a box truck. Here's pics again:



No side door like an ambulance, sliding window next to a little desk area instead

Spare tire bay with battery charger

Engine and aux batteries, I could make them all aux batteries

two seats, one at the desk swivels.

that shelf folds up. It's wide enough to sleep on laying sideways, which is how I sleep, but would prolly take that out.