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1976 Mercedes-Benz Binz Ambulance 2000 [VF123]

1976 Mercedes-Benz [VF123] in Red Dawn, Movie, 2012 IMDB

Class: Cars, Funeral — Model origin: DE

1976 Mercedes-Benz Binz Ambulance 2000 [VF123]

Pos: 00:01:17 [*] Background vehicle 

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Ingo DE

◊ 2013-02-21 11:08

 It's not a real hearse. It's an ambulance -Binz or Miesen, I don't know- disguised as a hearse.

Gag Halfrunt UK

◊ 2013-02-21 11:12

 Or converted into a hearse, if this is archive footage of a real funeral.

Ingo DE

◊ 2013-02-21 11:21

 From where?

andrepa DE

◊ 2013-02-21 15:29

 converted Miesen, as Miesen allways made hearses, too, but different styling
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hearseclub/4890608981/
for e.g. made Opel Kapitän P I hearse only one time, but many ambulances.

-- Last edit: 2013-02-21 15:31:44

Tönz DE

◊ 2013-02-21 16:09

 Rather Binz than Miesen, but hard to tell. Ex Ambulance anyway, which is not unusual in Eastern Europe, cf. /vehicle_64327.html and /vehicle_495229.html

andrepa DE

◊ 2013-02-22 16:32

 yes, Binz more than Miesen!
Link to "nast-sonderfahrzeuge.de"
by look at the trimline ending middle of car.

-- Last edit: 2013-02-22 16:35:07

Ingo DE

◊ 2013-02-22 17:55
Tönz wrote which is not unusual in Eastern Europe

So my question again, where this footage -as G-MANN says- is from. The winter-uniforms of the policemen in the blurry background are indeed looking Eastern European. I thought that before, but I was unsure, if anywhere there's common to convert old ambulances into hearses, but as Tönz has shown, it really has happen.
So a scene from Poland maybe?

-- Last edit: 2013-02-22 17:55:43

Weasel1984 PL

◊ 2013-02-22 19:29

 Sorry - I do not know where it is, but by the fact, that in one Polish film was visible old ambulance converted to the funeral car, doesn't mean it is common here at all. Have seen quite many funerals and have never met such conversion in person (and it was in different places - in bigger, but also in smaller or more poor towns).

Tönz DE

◊ 2013-02-22 20:59

 This funeral indeed could have taken place everywhere. I've found converted ambulances in Poland (W123 and W124, W115, W124, W124, W124), the Czech Republic (W210, W210, W124), Lithuania (W210, W124, W124) and Romania (W124).

Gag Halfrunt UK

◊ 2013-02-22 21:03

 @achiu31: What's the context for this shot in the film?

achiu31 CA

◊ 2013-02-23 05:06
Gag Halfrunt wrote @achiu31: What's the context for this shot in the film?


It's supposedly the funeral of Kim-Jong Il, but it's probably taken from old footage of a state funeral from any eastern bloc country.

-- Last edit: 2013-02-23 05:09:18

Gag Halfrunt UK

◊ 2013-02-23 11:22

 I thought they might be using it for the death of Kim Jong Il, because they changed the bad guys from China to North Korea. But at the real funeral the coffin was carried on the roof of a Lincoln limousine. Perhaps the director thought that audiences would think it was fake because there was an American car...

achiu31 CA

◊ 2013-02-23 16:55
Gag Halfrunt wrote I thought they might be using it for the death of Kim Jong Il, because they changed the bad guys from China to North Korea. But at the real funeral the coffin was carried on the roof of a Lincoln limousine. Perhaps the director thought that audiences would think it was fake because there was an American car...


Yes. I remember the car blogs were alive with discussion about the irony of the vehicle used for the procession:
Link to "jalopnik.com"

-- Last edit: 2013-02-23 16:56:03

Bø-Viks NO

◊ 2013-07-26 15:19

 Binz made new "empty" body shells on Mercedes to VBK whom converted them to ambulaces in Norway, they migth have made bodies to other companies and countries.

Max_S DE

◊ 2015-05-30 12:05
Gag Halfrunt wrote I thought they might be using it for the death of Kim Jong Il, because they changed the bad guys from China to North Korea. But at the real funeral the coffin was carried on the roof of a Lincoln limousine. Perhaps the director thought that audiences would think it was fake because there was an American car...


But knowing how North Korea is against most western stuff ("evil capitalism", and so on), a german car is not much more believeable.
I guess the move just used stock footage from some funeral somewhere outside the US, and with an older car to "fit the look" of places like North Korea or China.

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