Find me a Hearse

[chaseracer]

I'd love a hearse. Only two of my vehicular desires have perturbed my wife though - one is a hearse, the other is a Leyland National.

Neither a particularly practical proposition, given where you live!

 

[155V6]

What are you planning to use it for? A hearse has soft springs so they're utterly shit at carrying anything other that a occupied coffin in the back.

My old Granada had an air compressor to firm up the rear suspension,not sure how it worked though.

[vulgalour]

eBay's completed listings is interesting.  Looks like I'm going to struggle to spend more than £1000 on what I'm after as I'm in that happy territory of too old to be regular service and not old enough to be special.  Granadas are my favoured of what I've seen, though there's also been some nice Rover 800 based ones that went for around the £500-£600.

 

Good stuff really.  Just have to get the Golf sorted and sold, probably for around £500-600 with an MoT tidied up a bit.

[sheffcortinacentre]

my mate allways says people wince about hearses but all they do is carry bodies. its just a people carrier.

 

but don't say owt about campers made from ambulances? & people die in the back of those!!

[Junkman]

You'll be hard pressed to spend super-bag moolah on a horizontal limousine. There isn't really a second-hand market out there for them.

[vulgalour]

Not only that, there aren't that many for sale that often at any one time anyway.  I've kept my toe in the waters of hearse prices for many years waiting until a suitable time to explore ownership and there's rarely more than about 5 or 6 of them for sale online at any one time unless you count the really new stuff.

[Faker]

I can remember an old hearse knocking about Belfast years ago, it was based on an Austin 1800. That's got to be rare!

[kinkersaab]

morris leslie car auctions have one... cant do a link...

[Faker]

Better than that! When my dad married this doll 8 or 9 years ago, the limo that picked the bride up was an austin princess wedge limo! How about that for style. He never thought to ask what vehicles the firm used!

[Junkman]

I can remember an old hearse knocking about Belfast years ago, it was based on an Austin 1800. That's got to be rare!

 

If it is a Duffy built one, it's accounted for.

[Faker]

If it is a Duffy built one, it's accounted for.

Nah!! That was when I was a young fella! Fukin 41 now! Can't be the same motor.

[Junkman]

OK, then at least one of the probably only one made is accounted for.

[sheffcortinacentre]

there were a handfull of cortina P100's converted.

[Junkman]

 

 

There.

I'm not responsible...

[vulgalour]

They're both appalling... and I'd like one.

[Ghosty]

I saw a Merc W124 hearse before. The grey cladding at the bottom had been continued all the way round, and the back was designed blockily in keeping with the rest of the car. It looked fantastic.

[tooSavvy]

 

tooSavvy

[warren t claim]

Not a hearse but still a funeral lim.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1998-VAUXHALL-OMEGA-ELITE-LIMOUSINE-LIMO-/331013754302?pt=Automobiles_UK&hash=item4d11f50dbe

 

55,000 miles in 15 years and the undertaker specced a fucking diesel! Bonus mingepoints for the keep fit windows in the front as well as back, I honestly didn't think GM made an Omega with manual front windows, even the police spec ones.

[Ghosty]

[Junkman]

If you can't decide between a mourning car and a hearse, go to South Africa.

There it is customary to have the two combined:

 

 

 

 

 

The deceased is transported midships, while the next of kin accompany him in the rear passenger compartment.

I find this actually a quite dignified sepultural custom.

[vulgalour]

It's a hearse and a limo and has gullwing doors.  I think we have a winner.

[Guest Sherpa]

What ever happened to the p100 cortina hearse the last I saw was that it had been scrapped and that it could have been the last one left