{"id":4257,"date":"2023-12-16T06:36:18","date_gmt":"2023-12-16T14:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/?p=4257"},"modified":"2024-01-03T07:39:13","modified_gmt":"2024-01-03T15:39:13","slug":"amboolamps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/2023\/12\/16\/amboolamps\/","title":{"rendered":"Amboolamps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Baltimore has its own peculiar accent, and I have spent the last thirty years perfecting my impression of its odd mixture of southern, West Virginian, DelMarVan and redneck patois which makes oil sound like <em>oll<\/em> and sink sound like <em>zink<\/em> and leads to interesting sentences like <em>Dose crabs smell turrble, lake dere spereled<\/em>. <em>Amboolamps<\/em> is a favorite of the Lockardugan household and we use it whenever we can, along with <em>po-leese<\/em> and <em>farfarter<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, this Travelall ambulance showed up on Marketplace last week to be parted out, and I contacted the seller to see if any of the sheet metal was worth saving; he told me it was all junk. If it had been closer it would have been worth a road trip up just to look over (and possibly to save the rear set of doors for spares) but Massachusetts is too far away to entertain that idea and I think he wants to sell the whole thing together.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4258\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/ambulance-1.jpg?resize=960%2C720\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/ambulance-1.jpg?w=960&amp;ssl=1 960w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/ambulance-1.jpg?resize=400%2C300&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/ambulance-1.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The interesting thing here is that additional section they installed between the two doors to lengthen the truck\u2014from the looks of things that metal was some of the first to start breaking down. This would have been an amazing truck to save about ten or fifteen years ago. <em>Dat&#8217;sa shayme, hon.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4259\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/ambulance-4.jpg?resize=960%2C720\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/ambulance-4.jpg?w=960&amp;ssl=1 960w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/ambulance-4.jpg?resize=400%2C300&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/ambulance-4.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baltimore has its own peculiar accent, and I have spent the last thirty years perfecting my impression of its odd mixture of southern, West Virginian, DelMarVan and redneck patois which makes oil sound like oll and sink sound like zink and leads to interesting sentences like Dose crabs smell turrble, lake dere spereled. Amboolamps is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travelall"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Ac2-16F","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4257"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4286,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4257\/revisions\/4286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}