Ok; we’ve milked that line sufficiently. And I suspect that if the Challenger’s owner had come out, they would likely have gotten what I was after. Or at least I hope so.
FWIW, this is right around the corner from where I shot the green Camaro. Now I’ve seen this bad boy hearse around before, but not in the bright sunlight. I assumed it only came out after dark. So I wasn’t going to miss the opportunity.
Lots of curious items rolling around back here. Are those navy blue things door panels?
They’re certainly not on the doors, although the pulls have been remounted. It has a rather skeletal feel.
A table partially covered in beer bottle caps; I get it.
It has a name.
As well as a motto.
It also has some body filler issues.
Which are being addressed on the other side. An undertaking in progress.
That’s the first one I’ve seen with Cutlass Ciera tail lights.
It’s weird, I love hearses, but for me it has to be a Cadillac. I don’t think I could own a Buick or a Chevrolet hearse.
Stop! You’re killing me with all the puns!
I don’t think you understand the grave situation that car is in.
Glad you dug up the dirt on that car for us.
That car is to die for. But I hope it doesn’t have a blown ”casket.”
Wonder if the owner listens to Nine Inch Nails?
No, probably the Greatful Dead. BaDaBoom.
If this was in Canada, they would rock out to the Headstones.
In the case of this one, seeing a hand or leg sticking out in that debris would have been fitting. This is the car you’d picture Buffalo BIll of Silence of the Lambs fame driving, and as such, I hope that the owner and/or driver is on some kind of federal watchlist…..any kind of list that involves keeping a hairy eyeball on…..!
In this case, the Challenger would have been a more fitting CC for the enthusiasts. Nice color, too, that silver!
Shall I start shooting cars like the Challenger? Not very challenging. And I’d be challenged as to what to say about it, having never set foot inside one. Maybe someone else wants to take up the challenge.
I shot a Challenger simply because here they are rare they arent interesting at all, the old hearse on the other hand I dont see those at all, funeral directors here tend to use US origin station wagons as hearses B body Chevs and their ilk easier than having a Falcon wagon extended.
I see what you did there:
‘In this case, the Challenger would have been a more fitting CC for the enthusiasts. Nice color, too, that silver!’
Irony! (i hope)
Could this be the only old hearse that has ever had the fabric worn off of the driver’s seat? This thing really needs some of those rubber hands that you buy at gag stores to close in the back door.
As for the Challenger driver, his reaction would probably have been totally different. We Mopar lovers have lived a lifetime conditioned to the certainty that absolutely nobody (other than another crazy Mopar fan) would have the slightest interest in one of our cars. He would have undoubtedly been delighted that there was some other big gaudy car parked nearby so that he could quietly get into his car and leave before someone else starts in on how big of a fool he was not to get the Camaro or Mustang.
I hear you, JP. I showed my “low-rider” 1971 Dodge pickup once. It was parked between a 1956 Bel Air 2-door sedan and a 1955 Studebaker coupe. It could just as well have been invisible for all the attention it got from most passers-by.
Waste of a good B body wagon
It’s a purpose built unit on a commercial chassis.
Good points about this hearse: It’s the tall, extra-headroom version.
Bad points about this hearse: Everything else.
It does appear to have “commercial glass”. As such, I would hate to have to find a replacement if any of it got broken.
This has to take the cake for the worst-condition hearse that is still on the road. I see a number of them on CL that are in similar condition, but they are almost always non-runners that have been parked somewhere for a decade or two (with the seller wanting a laughably high amount). City code enforcement and/or the local police would be called within 15 minutes if this thing was parked in my neighborhood!
Those blue panels on the floor are the interior upper side panels from the back.
I’d say that it is in grave condition.
Seems legit to me, just ugly. On what grounds could the constabulary be called in?
I live amongst snooty, passive-agressive neighbors who, rather than talk to their neighbors directly, will call the city to complain about anything ugly in their neighbors’ yards. I wish I was making this up.
Never seen an Oldsmobile hearse before. Must be the last Olds, for its own funeral.
That is a Buick Estate Wagon. With Ciera taillamps mudded into the quaters. (The first clue would have been the dash)
As I stated earlier in the last Professional Car CC, I too did own a 82 LeSabre wagon based Hearse. Before that a 69 Hess&Eisenhardt Cadillac Ambulance. Please somebody put this POS out of its misery.
Screw the Challenger. And Mustang,Camaro,Corvette and everything else built in the last decade. Ain’t nothing special even if they are DS worthy. Just a few weeks ago I went to my local World of Wheels auto show. What a waste of my hard earned script. 90% of the cars were less than two years old(like this Challenger). Anybody with a credit score and a credit card can buy one and throw it on the floor for every hard core gearhead to laugh at. No need to drag them here and waste bandwidth.
Needs to go to 24 Hours of LeMons, or maybe a demo derby.
As previously noted, this is a Buick hearse. Do not dispair, however, as my 2nd cousin ( My American 2nd Cousin) drove a 74 or 75 Oldsmobile hearse for a number of years. It was in much better shape than the shown example. It was also in a dull yellow colour. Perhaps it came from a sunshine state.
Just as Paul finished shooting it, the owner returned and told him, “Sorry, but I must be shoveling off”.
Something odd shot by a PCS member down in Texas via Facebook.
I’m trying to figure what state those plates are.
I’d only seen ONE Buick hearse…a dead-ringer for that one (sorry; not so good today with puns). Could have BEEN that one…same color.
It was for sale in 2000 in Cleveland, in a gas station/half-fast used car lot. I enquired; but the price was out of my league.
It wasn’t a crime scene inside, either; but of course that was 13 years ago.
Oklahoma. A long way from home.
True.
But that’s Genyouine Rust-Belt rust on that beauty. I don’t think it got deep-down corroded in Tulsa that way.
A lot can happen in 13 years. A buyer moves South…the hearse would come in handy. Once the Bondo starts lifting off…time to sell it to the local punker brigade.
On the other hand, I doubt it’s a one-off job. Now, was the Cadillac commercial chassis such that it could have been run through as a Buick?
Appears to be a Eureka.
BOP & C all offered commercial chassis at the time.
Olds example, usually by Cottner-Bevington, AKA Cottington.
Later Olds
Eureka even continued them on the H-body.
Early Buick by Flxible
There was a LeSabre version of hte FWD H-body hearse too, an Electra one too, I think, both are rare. The roof and windows on the feature car say Eureka, but the rear Ciera tailights are odd, usually these had the wagon tailights, though the RWD Delta you have above has sedan tailights too.
A Pontiac based one is rare after the 70’s, I’ve seen one Parisenne style hearse, I think it was from Eureka too.
I’ve seen a few Buick hearses here in Ontario, but usually in much better shape. I see a lot of foreign films in my line of work, and a lot of different vehicles around the world end up pulling hearse duty. Mercedes-Benz and Volvo conversions are common in Europe, and in one documentary I saw (set in Central America) they used a silver ’70’s vintage Mazda pickup. In a Spanish film I saw recently, a Chrysler 300 conversion pulled up…that was something different.
In the Philippines I saw a few large detroit sedans made into hearses, not wagons, but well evident custom bodywork. I remember a 1967-ish Dodge and a 1965 Ford Galaxie like this.