The Volo Museum car is now for sale. Maybe it always was and this isn't news, I don't know. I only heard about it today.
http://volocars.com/1959-cadillac-ecto- ... -c-870.htm My purpose of posting it here has nothing to do with the car being for sale. It's to correct misinformation contained on their website, and quoted from something I said.
When Sean and I did the CraveOnline video the director kept asking us for figures on the cars, how many, etc. Sean and I were both quite diligent to say that there were only about 88-92 of the Miller-Meteor combos and exactly 124 of the Superior Hearses. ( That figure I have in writing from the Superior Coach Co. ) For the sake of fast pacing the director shortened that to "200 of the exact car." Sean and I took issue with that and preferred to use the word "about" as much as possible. I mean, if we're going to start lumping in the Superior with the Miller Meteor then why not add in all the Eurekas and Sayers and Scovilles as well? I wanted to keep it honest and really didn't enjoy bending those figures but Sean found a way around that by saying something about 200 being the approximate body style. That's fairly accurate, the Superior and M&M look closer to each other than the S&S or the Eureka ever did.
The director also wanted to know how many '59 Caddy M&M's and Superiors were still around, how many were converted into Ectos, etc. I looked around on some professional car forums as well as GBfans and honestly, it was damned hard to tally up accurately. The best kept records I've ever seen weer on the old TheEcto-1.com website but no one I know can seem to get in there anymore.
We took
educated guesses based on what pics would could find and based on what I recall from the last time I read stats on TheEcto-1 many years ago. My point is, we were making our best guesses and using the word "about" as much as possible.
Now I'm on this Volo site and they're quoting what Sean and I said as if it's gospel.
Only about 200 of these hearse / ambulances were ever built. There are only 8 known legit Ecto-1 replicas in America I'm telling you, as the person whose mouth these words came out of, this was a guess and not a calculated fact. If you ever hear these figures rehashed again on someone else's website to inflate the value, just know the context. If Volo were going to include their Eureka in with the "200" made of 88-to-92 M&M Combos and 124 Superior Hearses then we might as well add in all Miller Meteors made in '59 ( hundreds ) and all Superiors made in that same year, not to mention all the S&S and Eurekas.
Grand total is about 4,000+ commercial chassis cars that could be an Ecto.