Base Model Hearses

[Noel Tidybeard]

allegedly the vectra c was the only estate able to hold 2 standard sized caskets

[MiniMinorMk3]

[155V6]

[bunglebus]

On 10/12/2022 at 21:29, 155V6 said:

Was that Dick Dastardly's funeral procession?

What a piece of crap

[Missy Charm]

On 20/10/2022 at 12:47, martc said:

The future is already here...

Here's a Maxus Private Ambulance, your second to last final journey in a product of the Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation, nice....

https://pulpaddict.com/tag/electric-hearse/

https://leafylanewoods.co.uk/news/new-electric-tesla-hearse/

And for real cheapskates, just buy a black MG5.

 

Free cremation with every battery failure?

[justbinnedit]

1 minute ago, Missy Charm said:

Free cremation with every battery failure?

I wonder if funeral parlours now offer a rolling cremation option….

[Boycie]

We should start a autoshite funeral car business ....id go with 

70s Princess 

Granada hearse 

Stretched 740 saloon 

Cortina pickup 

 

 

 

 

 

[SunnySouth]

On 12/10/2022 at 9:29 PM, 155V6 said:

That is utterly fucking ghastly. 

[MiniMinorMk3]

[MiniMinorMk3]

[SunnySouth]

11 hours ago, MiniMinorMk3 said:

That is cool as fuckery! Like

[Pieman]

On 12/10/2022 at 9:29 PM, 155V6 said:

I think that mon-fucking-strosity lives in Preston somewhere, and as the badge suggests the chassis is based on an LDV van.

I don't even want to know any more about it.

[Datsuncog]

Looks to be a spectacularly quarter-assed stab at the Barris Kustoms-built 'Munster Koach', commissioned for the TV show 'The Munsters'.

You can bet that when it inevitably ends up on eBay with no bids and a Buy It Now of £HFM?, it'll be described as 'steampunk'.

[Metal Guru]

2 hours ago, Pieman said:

I think that mon-fucking-strosity lives in Preston somewhere, and as the badge suggests the chassis is based on an LDV van.

I don't even want to know any more about it.

It’s not just a hearse. See those pipes halfway along next to the coffin carrying part? Mobile crematorium!

[MorrisItalSLX]

On 11/12/2022 at 08:29, 155V6 said:

I wouldn’t be seen dead in that.

[quicksilver]

23 hours ago, SunnySouth said:

That is utterly fucking ghastly. 

The Leyland DAF badge slapped on the grille adds so much to its charm*. Thankfully it's SORN with no MOT since 2017 so it hasn't haunted the roads for a while.

In other news, a rather more basic Volvo hearse than the norm. Apparently the funeral director couldn't get a new hearse when he needed one, so he had his 17-year old private car converted.

 

[Richard_FM]

3 minutes ago, quicksilver said:

The Leyland DAF badge slapped on the grille adds so much to its charm*.

In other news, a rather more basic Volvo hearse than the norm. Apparently the funeral director couldn't get a new hearse when he needed one, so he had his 17-year old private car converted.

 

A Volvo 743!

[MiniMinorMk3]

[MiniMinorMk3]

[SunnySouth]

20 hours ago, MiniMinorMk3 said:

Hint of Maestro van in those back doors!

[sierraman]

Funerals are bloody expensive, we could set up doing them with a fleet of old nails, do the crem ourselves. 

[Missy Charm]

On 13/12/2022 at 00:03, Pieman said:

I think that mon-fucking-strosity lives in Preston somewhere, and as the badge suggests the chassis is based on an LDV van.

I don't even want to know any more about it.

 

Apparently the 'Addams Family Car' was built, owned and driven by the late Barry Pedder of Southport.  I don't know if the car was ever a working hearse, but the late Mr Pedder was often seen driving it in the area.  He was, apparently, a cabbie by trade rather than a funeral director and had form for doing funny things with cars.  Pedder died circa 2018, which would explain the car's disappearance from the road.  

Here's the car taking part in a Halloween parade in 2014.

[AnthonyG]

On 12/10/2022 at 7:06 PM, MiniMinorMk3 said:

Compare the elegance of the vehicle with the ‘not even one shit given’ attitude of the driver!

[mintwth]

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/144860637159

Wouldn't be seen dead in that hearse....not with those tints

[Dobloseven]

Saw a rather splendid funeral cortege last week A silver RR Phantom, I think, the modern type, converted to a hearse, followed by two matching mourners cars, all with matching number plates, well not matching, but you know what I mean. Few bobs worth there,I thought. 

[Richard_FM]

13 hours ago, mintwth said:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/144860637159

Wouldn't be seen dead in that hearse....not with those tints

The undertakers who handled my Dad's funeral had a black one of these.

[808 Estate]

On 12/12/2022 at 11:08 PM, SunnySouth said:

That is cool as fuckery! Like

I was about to make a similar reposte, but I am not sure it would convey the eloquence of yours.

[MiniMinorMk3]

[MiniMinorMk3]

[SunnySouth]

On 12/18/2022 at 4:51 PM, 808 Estate said:

I was about to make a similar reposte, but I am not sure it would convey the eloquence of yours.

One does try!