For Sale: 51 packard funeral coach - $3,200 (Sanford, Michigan)

[classiclines]

Not Mine

https://saginaw.craigslist.org/cto/d/sanford-51-packard-funeral-coach/7538449273.html

51 packard 3 way hearse straight 8 manual ran when parked needs gas tank

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Edited September 26, 2022 by classiclines
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[Hudsy Wudsy]

If I recall right, those are cloisonne hub caps. I certainly wouldn't leave them outside.

[auburnseeker]

That's the wrong engine photo.  At first I thought it was a transplant,  but everything under the hood is wrong for a Packard. 

[classiclines]

26 minutes ago, auburnseeker said:

That's the wrong engine photo.  At first I thought it was a transplant,  but everything under the hood is wrong for a Packard. 

Sorry - guy put a monte carlo steering wheel on post too -so Im guessing engine is a monte carlo?

[Gearheadengineer]

Engine pic sure looks like a Monte, which I think came with the longest fan shroud ever!

 

I like this Packard. Cool car. I’m glad it’s not nearby. 

[Steve_Mack_CT]

2 hours ago, Gearheadengineer said:

Engine pic sure looks like a Monte, which I think came with the longest fan shroud ever!

 

I like this Packard. Cool car. I’m glad it’s not nearby. 

I am glad it's not nearby either.  Ever see "The Hearse"? Pre slasher 70s horror at it's best   This just might be that Packard...

[m-mman]

The front seat is out of a 1970s GM hearse/ambulance. Looks like maybe Superior body. 

The Packard is a "3-way" sideloading hearse. The goodie on this car is the casket table. A hearse is useless without it, but is commonly removed and lost when someone makes it into a station wagon. 

 

The fact that it is there (and the glass is all there) makes the restoration of this hearse no more difficult than a passenger car in the same condition.

A lot of stuff on a professional are made from unobtainaium. Glass and the hearse/ambulance related interior parts are what makes or breaks a professional car restoration. If they are gone, then it nothing but a parts car. (if that) 

Edited September 26, 2022 by m-mman (see edit history)

[Jim Skelly]

I wonder if it was caught in the flooding when the dam broke a few years ago.  Too bad it was left outside.

[JACK M]

Looks like the seller edited out the incorrect pics.

[StillOutThere]

The ad is down. Presume sold?

[DrumBob]

Back in the 60's, bands would buy old hearses like this and load all their equipment into them and drive to gigs. Neil young had a couple of Buick hearses, both of which he named Mort. 

 

I was probably fifteen, when I saw some band pull into a gas station in an old hearse with The Critters painted on the side. I thought it was the famous Newark, NJ band that had all the hits, but it was friends of theirs, a band named Alan Vallone & The Spirits, who borrowed the The Critters' hearse for the night. Still pretty cool.