Cohort poster Rivera Notario has caught some other amazing hearses in South America, but this one, shot in Santiago, Chile, takes the cake. A Jeep Compass! But why? I’m trying to imagine the rationale. Was there a big sale on them? Are Jeeps the hot new thing in hearses? Was it rear-ended? I’ll leave it for others to enlighten us.
Here’s a better look. And it appears to be empty at the moment. Just as well.
Trail rated, baby! It does seem over the top though, everyone knows you can fit a 6’1” body into a 2door Wrangler.
I particularly like the photograph with the cyclist all geared-up on his mountain bike. It fits so well with the Jeep brand it could be a publicity shot.
Don’t let bad weather delay tour last ride. With our hearse, four-wheel drive will get you to the grave on time.
…or die tryin’!
Jeep Compassion.
I think you may have won the internet for today.
What an odd vehicle. Using a Compass as the basis for a hearse is strange enough, but just the way it was modified makes it even more bizarre.
Front passenger door fit looks terrible
I was wondering if that was a result of the conversion. Yet given the vehicle they started with, I’m not sure it left the factory differently.
That hearse looks bizarre. Why???? So many better platforms out there. What’s next? SMART car hearse??
This gives me the Willys.
Jeepers, I see what you did there!
I suppose the Jeep for a hearse is for people who want to be buried well off the beaten path and not at the local cemetery.
More likey just FWD hence an easy extension just like the Fiat Ducato / Ram chassis cabs for camper conversions over the “pond”.
Two years ago, I saw a Honda Crosstour that had been converted into a hearse in Guadalajara. It looked very similar to the hearses on Rivera Notario’s Flickr page. Unfortunately I was in an Uber, so I couldn’t stop and get a picture.
If I knew that my coffin would have to be carried in that THING, I’d live forever to avoid it.
Where is that? Spanish labels, cobblestone street… Chile? Colombia?
My guess is Santiago, Chile.
The article states it’s in Santiago, Chile.
I keep going back to that rear side window glass – such a weird, complex shape. The work of Franco Sbarro?
That large, oddly shaped window has to be custom, but what I can’t figure out is what is the donor for the smaller window behind the door?
Whatever they had in the scrap pile out the back? 🙂
And why didn’t they make it level with the window on the door?
1996 Taurus wagon rear door glass?
As my Momma would say, isn’t that different.
“Tall pallbearers only”
Awful…. I wouldn’t be caught dead in that thing
Eeek!