Having been purchased new by the Cotner Funeral Home, the combination was briefly used first as an ambulance, then repainted gray and used for removals. After twenty-two years of service and at least one course of body work after a fender skirt fell off on the freeway, the funeral home traded in the car. We purchased the car from C.W. Coach a year later in 1996.

By 2006 the paint had faded and rust was beginning to blister through the old body work. The left quarter panel and rear bumper had been damaged when Columbus Police PTV 158 backed into it in a parking lot several years earlier. Eventually the brakes gave out. Later the car refused to start.