THE BARRETT-JACKSON AUCTION COMPANY, WILL BE SELLING ONE OF THE MOST HISTORICALLY SIGNIFICANT VEHICLES IN US HISTORY AT ITS 40th AUCTION ON 17-23.JANUARY, AT WESTWORLD OF SCOTTSDALE ARIZONA. THE 1963 PONTIAC BONNEVILLE AMBULANCE, LOT #1277, WHICH WILL SELL AT NO RESERVE, CARRIED PRESIDENT JOHN F KENNEDY'S CASKET FROM AIR FORCE ONE, AFTER HIS ASSASSINATION IN DALLAS. 'NOT ONLY DID THE AMBULANCE TRANSPORT JFK FOLLOWING HIS UNTIMELY DEATH, IT'S ONE OF THE FINEST EXAMPLES OF AN UN-RESTORED AMBULANCE FROM THAT TIME PERIOD', SAID STEVE DAVIS, PRESIDENT OF BARRETT-JACKSON. 'IT'S ALSO, WITHOUT A DOUBT, ONE OF THE MOST SIGNIFICANT AND HISTORICAL VEHICLES EVER OFFERED FOR SALE.' THE AMBULANCE MET AIR FORCE ONE AT ANDREWS AIR FORCE BASE IN WASHINGTON DC FOLLOWING THE 35th PRESIDENT'S ASSASSINATION. IT TRANSPORTED PRESIDENT KENNEDY'S FLAG-DRAPED CASKET, HIS WIFE, JACQUELINE KENNEDY, AND HIS BROTHER ROBERT F KENNEDY, THE FORMER US ATTORNEY GENERAL, FROM ANDREWS TO BETHESDA NAVAL HOSPITAL AND LATER TO THE US CAPITOL. THE GRAY AMBULANCE, MODEL 6-3-207G, WAS BUILT IN JUNE 1963. OF 69 AMBULANCE, ONLY 15 WERE CONTRACTED FOR MILITARY USE, INCLUDING LOT #1277. ITS US NAVY DATE PLATE REGISTRATION NUMBER IS 94-49196 AND SHOWS ITS ASSIGNMENT TO BETHESDA NAVAL HOSPITAL. FOLLOWING ITS NAVAL SERVICE, THE VEHICLE WAS RETIRED AND SOLD AS SURPLUS.
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