anyone chopped a hearse

dons t, that orange Caddy is a local car.

On searching the web for hearse sites I ran across another car that was built in Enid, always wandered what became of it. Use to run a blown sbc.

 

Well its not chopped, but this was a nicely done car in the UK a few years back...

http://www.burnhamautos.com/hearse.htm

 

Here's a pic of my '77...Anyone care to have some photochop fun??

 

Doesn't look right..Countries in Europe always built funky hearses..Didn't sink the bed like US ones..

 

A Mopar from Germany...

(Small pics, sorry)

 

I found this one. Pretty sure it is chopped.

 

Yup,that's a chop alright..

 

Yup.that's a chop alright...

 

go to www.lordzofkustomz.com/projects/hurzefromhell.htm

 

not really chopped... but the hearse from "harold & maude" has to be one of the coolest ever built

 

After its chopped, how do you get the casket in???

 

If you want some input,there's a few tips I could give you on that build,certain things people don't lnow about hearses..Also,you guys never responded to a letter I sent you a while back about a possible trade..

 

Depends on how low the chop is...Most hearses have about a foot to a foot and a half of clearance between the top of the casket and the roof,so depends on how radical your chop is..

 

chop it.

 

Actually the casket would need a section. Then only someone like Paris Hilton could fit in the box.

 

That sounds like a good plan.

 

A casket sits in the back with the casket lid closed...You could do a 6 to 8 inch chop and it would still fit..

 

This just appeared on German Epay. Says its a Canadian built Ford that was used on the island of Malta.

http://cgi.ebay.de/US-Oldtimer-Leic...2QQihZ002QQcategoryZ29750QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

 

There's a whole page of pice here from Wintersun 2005, (It's on again right now!) and a bit over halfway down the page on the right hand side is a chopped 50's hearse.

http://www.pepsgarage.com/Wintersun 2006 The Cars.htm

Cheers, Glen.

 

I've got a '71 Superior I have been driving around now and then for a couple of years. Contemplated chopping it when I first got it.

Since I've been driving it a little more lately, the guys in my club are trying to talk me into it now. One of them does it for a living, and in his 30 or so years of doing it, hasn't done a hearse yet, and is really interested in giving me a hand with it.

The whole idea is to do this car as a kustom in a 50's or 60's flavor, so chopping it would be the icing on the cake. The biggest obstacle is the commercial glass that is unique to hearses/ambulances, especially the 60's and 70's models. Cutting glass until you get one that doesn't break may be prohibitive. The cost is the least of the problem, finding glass is the biggest headache. Unless one was to be creative, think out of the box,(no pun intended) and find other solutions.

I basically have it down to only 2 problems to solve. Number one is the windshield, which I think I have a couple of ideas, just have to research them. And number 2 is the front door windows so that it doesn't look like some hokey attempt to make a vent glass or something.

 

This one is for sale on collector car trader online... http://adcache.collectorcartraderonline.com/10/0/1/89325901.htm

 

about 12 years ago there was a monte in lowrider mag that they choped did it all them selves couldnt cut glass so they put in a split windshiel made of plexi glass going flat and split might be an idea

 

I second that! too much and not even needed...
mkstr.

 

Here you go:

 

'54 S&S Knickerbocker

 

that lincoln/herse whatever it is could be real sweet slammed and diffrent shoes. other than that iv always wanted to see one of those.