Base Model Hearses

[flat4alfa]

Sexy Kia Sedona

 

[bub2006]

This thread has just ignited my lust to own an hearse again. Thanks!

[flat4alfa]

I don't know quite what this was made for but I like it. Estate? Hearse? Custom build?

DSC_0020_zpse6d92d1a by RS, on Flickr

 

 

From page 7: 

this one was a '60, different tail lights mate, plus it was a 2-door + hatch.

I think Shaun Gladwell (?) from the PA owners club had something to do with it. Was a fair few years ago now, mind you.

[binhoker668]

i was keeping it low key, but as this thread has appeared....

 

 

this beauty is now in my possession - currently being recommissioned.

 

Nice!  Did this live outside Bradford years ago?  Brighouse or somewhere like that?  I remember seeing an identical one regularly years ago - early 2000s...

[vulgalour]

Kia Sedona.  I'll just carry on living, if it's all the same.

[sierraman]

If I get buried in a Kia I'll turn in my grave.

[timolloyd]

Talk about rubbing the deceased face into it. Their final journey in a car with a 7 year warranty.

[greengartside]

Wow. The sound of the 1256cc rattling away as it pulls you up to the crematorium. Wonderful.

 

Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to pay our re.....TICKA TICKA TICKA TICKA....

[sierraman]

Talk about rubbing the deceased face into it. Their final journey in a car with a 7 year warranty.

Whenever you hear anyones bought a Kia, all they'll tell you about is the 7 year warranty. It must be the only redeeming subject they know there is.

[bunglebus]

Hearse1 by RS, on Flickr

 

Hearse2 by RS, on Flickr

 

Hearse3 by RS, on Flickr

[PiperCub]

If I get buried in a Kia I'll turn in my grave.

 

I'd come back to life, kick the grim reaper in the nuts, 'Fuck you, I'm not going until someone sorts out some proper transport - I'm not even prepared to be seen dead in that'.

[AMC Rebel]

Imagine having your last journey in a fucking Vectra Estate.

Actually I think it would be pretty fitting - sums up my life in many ways - pretty average - and I don't mean that in a self-pitying or self-deprecating way - we can't all be fucking Elvis.

[bunglebus]

[robinmasters]

Spotted this locally loads of times (it may well be in Stuboy's spotted thread) , only just discovered who owns it:

 

[Guest Apollo 13]

There's nothing classier than a van based hearse.

 

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The FX4 with a smokey 2.2 diesel would be another fine way to depart.

 

 

 

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I wonder if anyone on this forum knows about CGO 197H's fate? It was our very first hearse 30 odd years ago. I'd love to know whether it's still doing the rounds.

[martc]

I wonder if anyone on this forum knows about CGO 197H's fate? It was our very first hearse 30 odd years ago. I'd love to know whether it's still doing the rounds.

 

Described as a black Ausitn?

 

Could be bad news - tax expired 1/10/09, MOT expired 14/10/08.

[AMC Rebel]

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Wouldn't mind the Rover with the flames since I'm going straight to hell anyway

[panhard65]

I wonder if anyone on this forum knows about CGO 197H's fate? It was our very first hearse 30 odd years ago. I'd love to know whether it's still doing the rounds.

It might be worth checking with the classic hearse register as they do know an awful lot about hearses and the fate of some of them if they have been raced.

[Asimo]

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Reliant-only-fools-and-horses-funeral-hire-company/164433576749?hash=item264901432d:g:dSQAAOSwMalfgFHy

 

[brownnova]

Hello, Autoshite Funeral services. Yes our Polonez hearse is available.:. 
 

[martc]

A 1976 (or 1982, depends on the source, '76 seems more reasonable as GAZ 13 production stopped in '81) RAF-GAZ 13 S Chaika 'Funeral Coach', these are often seen as ambulances (in a similar way to how the French used to favour estate car ambulances); but this one was built as a hearse for a customer in Vietnam. Practical spare wheel storage.

[tul66]

13 hours ago, brownnova said:

Hello, Autoshite Funeral services. Yes our Polonez hearse is available.:. 
 

I didn't think there was anything that could make a Polonez worse, I was wrong. 😲

 

[Chris2cv]

Not strictly base model, but probably the strangest hearse that I've ever seen! Even had several mannequins inside!

[catsinthewelder]

14 hours ago, brownnova said:

Hello, Autoshite Funeral services. Yes our Polonez hearse is available.:. 
 

I thought those rear lights were Renault 15 but they are probably Daihatsu Charade aren't they?

[mk2_craig]

9 hours ago, catsinthewelder said:

I thought those rear lights were Renault 15 but they are probably Daihatsu Charade aren't they?

Chinky Chento I reckon. 
 

Which makes them the most robust and well engineered part of the whole thing 🤪

[chaseracer]

19 hours ago, catsinthewelder said:

I thought those rear lights were Renault 15 but they are probably Daihatsu Charade aren't they?

9 hours ago, mk2_craig said:

Chinky Chento I reckon. 
 

Which makes them the most robust and well engineered part of the whole thing 🤪

Yup.

[Noel Tidybeard]

11 hours ago, mk2_craig said:

Chinky Chento I reckon. 
 

Which makes them the most robust and well engineered part of the whole thing 🤪

seems logical as fso built the chinky chentos did they not

[Richard_FM]

On 12/8/2021 at 12:30 PM, martc said:

A 1976 (or 1982, depends on the source, '76 seems more reasonable as GAZ 13 production stopped in '81) RAF-GAZ 13 S Chaika 'Funeral Coach', these are often seen as ambulances (in a similar way to how the French used to favour estate car ambulances); but this one was built as a hearse for a customer in Vietnam. Practical spare wheel storage.

Many older American ambulances were made by the same bodybuilders as hearses, in some rural areas it was common to use the same vehicle for both purposes!

[High Jetter]

Also Mercedes in 60"s/70’s. 

[bunglebus]

Nosing around for something else and found the Montego was transformed