West Coast Customs Has Built a Flying Ambulance. Lol.
West Coast Customs has still got it. From the company that brought you the in-car cotton candy machine comes this: The Ambulnz. Dear God.
What?
Ambulnz, a private ambulance service, commissioned this wonder from WCC with the idea that it’ll go anywhere through anything to rescue customers in need. Hence the tank tracks, quad-copters, and land-sea-air mode buttons inside. We are to believe, dear people, that this amazing ambulance can fly and float. I’ll admit to some skepticism.
The Details
According to WCC the tracks can ‘swap out for regular tires for road access’ though I doubt you can do that by the side of the road. Then there’s the matter of flight. A normal ambulance (without a 400 lb tank track dangling from each corner) weighs about 9000 lbs. I’m no aerodynamicist but a minute and a half of googling drone lift capacities has not given me faith that four of those rotors can lift this big blue brick off the ground. Ditto for floating.
The Interior
Inside is exactly the kind of place you want to be during a medical emergency though. White leather covers everything so it’ll be easy to keep clean and there’s the ubiquitous gigantic TV so you can see your vital stats and watch old episodes of Pimp My Ride on the way to the ER.
It does look cool though, doesn’t it? The same part of you that loved the show all those years ago can still appreciate something like this. It’s just a bit of a shame that like so many in-car waterfalls this particular Ambulnz is all show and no go.
James Walker
James Walker is a freelance writer with a passion for four-wheeled things and twisty roads.