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Woodfiddler, you have good eyes! Wish I had a good answer. Proudly made in Canada- probably not the answer. I have not seen another car with this medallion. I suspect it is something to do with the assembly line as Gm made trucks called Mapleleafs, up to 3 ton at least. They were the same as regular gm, I believe they came as gm or mapleleaf models, but not an authority on them. Mapleleafs are far and few between these days. I am also unsure who put the coach body on the car, there are no tags on the car. It looks like a flxible body, but I have found no records of flxbile being assembled in Canada. The coach is asembled with robertson screws so we know it was built here. It could have been assembled under license, thus the leaf perhaps

I have to set the record straight, the hearse is a dedicated hearse. The dual purpose rumur got started by a reporter at the oshawa show in 2008. There was a second hearse, a 33 that was dual purpose. The sliding window between the cab and rear section got the reporter confused, which does bring up a good question, why is there a window similar to a pickup truck in a hearse- a chance for the last word I suppose! Lee

Hi Guys: Since John is busy shovelling, I thought I had better make my first post. I have been following this site for quite sometime and am very impressed with what people are accomplishing, I hope my project will meet the standard! The great blog guru convinced me to share what I am proposing to accomplish with you, so here goes: My hearse is a 1927 Mclaughlin-Buick built in Oshawa Ont. I purchased it from the family of a gentleman in a nearby town. He had traded a load of scrap for it to a junk gypsy, apparently the junk gypsy removed it from a gravel pit where it was sitting with several other cars to be burried. He returned in the spring to the gravel pit to find the remaining cars burried.We got lucky!. The car couldn't have been in the pit very long becasue the interior is still in it. The car still wears license plates from 1949, which I am currently in the process of tracing. The car was sitting in a garage for, as I was told 39 yrs in the same spot to be a retirement project which never happened. Fortunately it was never taken apart till I just pulled the motor last week. Its tight from sitting. Iwas told they had it in a parade in 1968, the last it ran. Currently shows 27000 miles on the odometer, has a wheel base of 153 inches, weighs 5000lbs, a beast for sure! Lee