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John348 Posted January 1, 2022 Share Posted January 1, 2022 (edited) Considering that this thread started in 2013, it is safe to say 'old threads never die' Edited January 1, 2022 by John348 (see edit history) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bleach Posted January 1, 2022 Author Share Posted January 1, 2022 I forgot that it's been that long since starting it and I had also forgot about this thread until I got an update about a new post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
f.f.jones Posted January 1, 2022 Share Posted January 1, 2022 (edited) These two have very similar decoration. Any idea who and where the builder was? Edited January 1, 2022 by f.f.jones (see edit history) 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TexRiv_63 Posted January 1, 2022 Share Posted January 1, 2022 WOW! Thanks Bleach for bringing this thread back. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SC38dls Posted January 1, 2022 Share Posted January 1, 2022 Are you saying this thread was resurrected from the dead? 😳 dave s 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
f.f.jones Posted January 1, 2022 Share Posted January 1, 2022 Rambler AMC Rebel Hearse SST 1970 V8 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
58L-Y8 Posted January 1, 2022 Share Posted January 1, 2022 12 hours ago, f.f.jones said: These two have very similar decoration. Any idea who and where the builder was? The carved panel hearses were produced by almost all hearse coachbuilders. It was a style carried forward from the horse-drawn hearse, the wood panels machine carved from master patterns with same technology used in Victorian-style furniture manufacture. Later, the carved panels were casted in zinc-alloy and anodized, bolted together in sections. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roscoe Posted January 2, 2022 Share Posted January 2, 2022 On 3/30/2013 at 12:06 PM, Dave Gelinas (XP-300) said: Here's a wild one. Got sucked into looking through this entire thread. I saw this and had to laugh. These are built in my town. One of my good friends, who is a funeral director, got tired of having to buy a new hearse every time Cadillac changed body styles. He'd met a guy, Max Prinzing, that built these pseudo-30's hearses. He bought one, and the first funeral he used it for was like a superstar funeral. I escorted it (as a police officer) to the graveyard and people were lined up to photo the thing. Had an LS engine in it and would smoke the Coker bias plies. He wound up buying Prinzing out, and now has a small factory building these. Kinda cool. Not a classic by any stretch, but definitely cooler than modern rides. And for those that think he's not a real car guy, building these replicas- he has a model T hearse, a Packard Henney, and several other classics and hotrods. His delivery truck is a modified La France fire truck. Welcome to Rosewood Classic Coach | Rosewood Classic Coach 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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John348 Posted January 2, 2022 Share Posted January 2, 2022 6 hours ago, f.f.jones said: Rambler AMC Rebel Hearse SST 1970 V8 Now that is a poor man's hearse! The roof rack is nice touch, that is there for those who felt they can take it with them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe in Canada Posted January 2, 2022 Share Posted January 2, 2022 (edited) 41 Cadillac for sale. I do not think it is a 41 seeing it would have been war time. https://www.facebook.com/commerce/listing/485458379519389/?media_id=0&ref=share_attachment Edited January 2, 2022 by Joe in Canada (see edit history) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe in Canada Posted January 2, 2022 Share Posted January 2, 2022 (edited) 18 hours ago, John348 said: The roof rack is nice touch, Extra luggage space for the person who is going to take their prize possessions with them. Edited January 3, 2022 by Joe in Canada (see edit history) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bleach Posted January 2, 2022 Author Share Posted January 2, 2022 2 hours ago, Joe in Canada said: 41 Cadillac for sale. I do not think it is a 41 seeing it would have been war time. https://www.facebook.com/commerce/listing/485458379519389/?media_id=0&ref=share_attachment It really is a '41. War time restrictions didn't come into effect until about February 1942. I found a few '42 hearses on Google but none were worth posting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.H.Boland Posted January 2, 2022 Share Posted January 2, 2022 (edited) On 3/29/2013 at 12:47 PM, Hudsy Wudsy said: I came across these two quite classy looking last rides on the "Just a Car Guy" blog. Their moderate gothic ornamentation makes them relatively tasteful. Just a Car Guy: gothic hearses I hadn't until now gone through this entire thread. It's nice to see back on page two, the photo of Needham's (London, Ontario) 1941 Cadillac hearse, top. The body on this unit started as a '41 coupe. As it was Needham's first hearse, old car enthusiast and second generation funeral home owner Lloyd Needham searched for the long lost car. It was found in derelict condition in a collapsed barn. RM Restorations was given the task of recreating the hearse, starting with a restored coupe just as originally. They apparently even sent an employee to wood carving classes so he could make the carved sides. It's still owned (and occasionally used) by Needham's. Edited January 2, 2022 by J.H.Boland (see edit history) 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3macboys Posted January 2, 2022 Share Posted January 2, 2022 25 minutes ago, J.H.Boland said: I hadn't until now gone through this entire thread. It's nice to see back on page two, the photo of Needham's (London, Ontario) 1941 Cadillac hearse, top. The body on this unit started as a '41 coupe. As I recall the story, the coachwork was done by The Ingersoll Casket Company. As it was Needham's first hearse, old car enthusiast and second generation funeral home owner Lloyd Needham searched for the long lost car. It was found in derelict condition in a collapsed barn. RM Restorations was given the task of recreating the hearse, starting with a restored coupe just as originally. They apparently even sent an employee to wood carving classes so he could make the carved sides. It's still owned (and occasionally used) by Needham's. Here's the story on that one: https://www.oldcarsweekly.com/news/little-business-big-cars 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PFindlay Posted January 2, 2022 Share Posted January 2, 2022 I found this picture in some of my dad's old slides. It was taken in the mid-60s in Manitoba - probably at Elkhorn where the museum is. It looks like an Overland. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hudsy Wudsy Posted January 2, 2022 Share Posted January 2, 2022 (edited) Appropriate for "first call service", which is the time when the deceased is picked up and then brought to the funeral home for preparation. Edited January 3, 2022 by Hudsy Wudsy (see edit history) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hudsy Wudsy Posted January 2, 2022 Share Posted January 2, 2022 7 hours ago, Joe in Canada said: 41 Cadillac for sale. I do not think it is a 41 seeing it would have been war time. https://www.facebook.com/commerce/listing/485458379519389/?media_id=0&ref=share_attachment The siren under the hood and the possibility that those are red running lights, and not amber, make me think that this was probably a dual-purpose unit. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SC38dls Posted January 2, 2022 Share Posted January 2, 2022 I have a friend whose family owned the local funeral home in a very very rural county in Ky (most of them are very rural). As a young man in the late 50’s early 60’s he got to drive the hearse on ambulance runs as the nearest one was forty or fifty miles away. They had more ambulance calls than funerals. dave s 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MCHinson Posted January 3, 2022 Share Posted January 3, 2022 I just noticed this thread and read it again from the start. It is a shame that a lot of the old photo links died as a result of one of the forum updates since the thread started. Earlier I posted some photos that I took in 2007 of an unusual Model T Ford Carved panel hearse owned by McKenzie Funeral Home in Whiteville NC. It was one of two early McKenzie hearses that were pulled out a downtown storage building in the early 1980s. The Ford was transported to the current McKenzie's location in the 1980s and I never knew what happened to the other. It is quite timely that I just found this old discussion, since a McKenzie family member posted photos of the "missing" hearse on facebook a couple of days ago. He identified it as a 1926 Dodge. Apparently, it was put in another storage building when the two hearses were removed from the old storage location in the 1980s. They have now retrieved it and stored it in the old garage at the current funeral home along with the Ford. Apparently the Ford is still not running. They pulled it out and put the Dodge in the back and parked the Ford in front of it. Hopefully that they have the two reunited at the funeral home, they might be getting ready to make an effort to get them back on the road. 5 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
72caddy Posted January 4, 2022 Share Posted January 4, 2022 In 2007, I found this in a small town close to me and posted pictures. Someone contacted me and i believe this was rescued shortly there-after...maybe just for parts but it was a neat find. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hudsy Wudsy Posted January 5, 2022 Share Posted January 5, 2022 (edited) There really is a whole category of units known as "first call vehicles", or alternatively, "removal ambulance": first call vehicle - Google Search I'll let you guys speculate about the need for an easily cleaned stainless steel tray. Edited January 5, 2022 by Hudsy Wudsy (see edit history) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TerryB Posted January 8, 2022 Share Posted January 8, 2022 A real picture post card for a funeral home in northwestern Berks county PA. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MCHinson Posted January 8, 2022 Share Posted January 8, 2022 The 1913 Ford and 1926 Dodge that I posted about recently were the subject of a newspaper article that might be of interest to those reading this discussion: https://nrcolumbus.com/antique-funeral-coaches-trace-history-of-one-of-whitevilles-oldest-businesses/?fbclid=IwAR3hLX-CI1Tvz_Dcv0pHBuBUrxj3YDwIdVFa3RxL14-ENlL2j25rUTVLSI0 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
f.f.jones Posted January 10, 2022 Share Posted January 10, 2022 1977 Chrysler Imperial Le Baron Hearse 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Packard Don Posted January 15, 2022 Share Posted January 15, 2022 (edited) There were no 1977 Imperials - the last of the era was 1975 so this is either 1975 or it is a New Yorker with Imperial trim and badges. Also, Imperial was Imperial, not Chrysler Imperial. Edited January 15, 2022 by Packard Don (see edit history) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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