Would You Be Caught Dead in A Hurse?

While I was out scrounging yesterday I came across a circa 1949/50 Pontiac hurse, complete with straight-eight engine. It was cool-looking as hell with the snow about mid-wheel deep all around it! It was kind of like a Mother- Nature photoshop lowering job since I could see how really cool it would be if lowered. And it was so dang lo-o-o-ng!

The Pontiac looked to be pretty complete with about 55 years of typical road rash, and I was really tempted to ask if it was for sale, but I couldn't help wondering if any self-respecting rodder wouldn't be caught dead in one.

Any opinions on the carma aspects of rodding a hurse:?"?? I mean would the heebeegeebees outway the coolness????

 

nobody ever died in a hearse.....they die in ambulances and no one gives a shit when they need one....i brought one home yrs ago and told everyone it was a caddy wagon they did build one so you can lie

 

The dead people were in the back.... You'll be in the front. Everything should be ok

 

Hell Yes! hurses are Bitchen costomized. Back in the day some of my friends
had them one Caddy painted yello and a black Packard with (The Body Snachers, Ratfink) mural on the sides. both were droped to about 4 inches from the ground. Go for it. Pogo

 

scew what others think. if you like it get it. sounds kick ass

 

Some friends of mine have a Band and use a late 50's Cadillac Hearse to haul their stuff to gigs. They haven't mentioned any ghosts floating around in the thing....

 

I have a 65 Caddy landau and it is one great ride. Hearses are rare there was only 156 made of my body style and figuring in the options mine has (endloader with the sucide rear doors,Crown Royale trim option) it is probably one of about 20 or so. These cars was pretty much hand made. The 429 in mine has developed a rod knock so that is why I have not driven it much in the last couple of years and I do not have a shop long enough to work on it being over 22 feet long these things are huge.
I have a 73 472 rattholed away and a Latham Supercharger that is going to be put in it. Dude buy the Pontiac if it is complete.
BTW It is also complete with a casket in the rear. Dead people dont scare me. But a lot of living people do.

 

That's good!

 

"I see dead people..."

 

Just Once!

 

Most people ARE cought dead in a hurse

Seriously, it could be pretty cool. Definitely different!

ARAMP1

 

Hearses Rule!!!! Go For It

 

Wasn't it a Hurst?
Like the one Linda Vaughn posed on the roof of?
The Shifter car?

If ya plan on driving one learn to spell it, it's Hearse.

 

I used to deliver body parts in a 70 Olds 98 hearse, autobody parts that is. I always teased my wife(girlfriend at the time)that I would pick her up from school in it. She wasn't too fond of the idea, I have no clue why. later shawn

 

DONT THINK you can get to many bitches into the back though.but not all ghosts are bad so who knows might make a new friend.

 

Folks think sedan deliveries are cool, so why wouldn't they think the same sbout a hearse (proper spelling)?

As a matter of fact, a lot of the economy funeral homes would use a sedan delivery instead of a hearse because they couldn't afford the real deal.

I remember about 25 years ago turning down an opportunity to buy a rust free, 20,000 mile original black '55 Chev sedan delivery that was used for that purpose. Still had the little rollers mounted in the back to slide the casket in and out.

 

The hearses always seem a little to bulbus in the rear to me if I was gonna do one I'd chop it or just convert a delivery into one and save some time and effort. It also depends on the year and brand though Ive seen a early 50's poncho one that was right on and a 59 buick one that could of been the shit simply because they are already evel to begin with.

 

My aunt once told me about these two guys in her high school back in the day (Late 60s early 70s) that got a hearse and had it all fixed up.

They had a coffin in back that they would put the kegs in and then they ran plumbing so the taps were where the radio knobs normally were. Thent hey had a home stereo wired up in back as well and they would take it out to the parties.

Good old redneck ingenuity.

 

Somebody around Detroit has a hearse jacked up on big monster truck tires. Belongs to some shop. Very menacing.

Hurst hearse. That's good.

 

i friend in high school had one ..when he had a date they would part at a funeral home and go at it.. the cops thought it belonged there so they never got interupted

 

But then when you tell your buddies, "Hey, let's go for a ride.", just watch how fast they run to the front seat. And look at the expressions on the faces of those stuck riding in the back.

 

http://members.aol.com/hearseq/grimrides.htm

 

One of my old girlfriends liked my hearse there was lots or room in the back and since the rollers was removed and the floor was carpeted it was like a big wagon.

 

brett barris has one that looks pretty kool

 

A friend of mine had one set up with a sink and a chair and was able to tattoo out of it,I think that Poncho would make a cool cruiser

 

Hearse can be cool, I wouldn't start one as a project unless it was very clean. If you ever wanted to get rid of it, they don't bring big money and are harder to sell. If you can get it reasonable and its an easy build it could be fun.

 

Never been in one, never will be. I'm goin out in a hot rod truck.

Tommy Mc

 

I drove a 75 Cadillac Superior End Loader for a few years. Took it up to the Sherman/Denison show one year and stopped in at a Wal-Mart on the way outta town, I was sittin in the car waitin on my wife when I noticed this young couple in a spankin new Z06 Vette circling me and pretending not to look. They parked a few spots down from me and kinda snuck by me, still trying not to stare, so I hollered out the window "You wanna see inside?" This chick lit up like a cherry bomb, "Are you serious? Is that a real Hearse?" Man they climbed all over that thing, asking me stuff like, did it smell when you got it? They got my name and address and took a picture and invited me to a Halloween party that night, but we needed to get home. About a week before Christmas that year, I get a envelope in the mail and damnit if it wasn't a Christmas card from that couple made outta the picture they took! Mine wound up with some rock band from Little Rock, wish I still had it. KustomD here on the boards borrowed it for awhile once and a girl gave him a little case of the "stinky finger" in the back of it, Big D is still smiling about that!

 

The late 60's/early 70's thing with the day-glo green frame? That thing is obscene. It's usually sitting out in front of an autobody shop on John R in Madison Heights- the guy used to go rolling past my place on 10 1/2 Mile all the time, and I'd cringe every time it went past...

 

Ya got me. I probably didn't spell "heebeegeebees" right either. Dang! going to have to get me a dictionary!

Thanks everybody for the opinions. Think I'll go ask the dude's price. bet it's obtainable for under $200, with the heebeegeebees and all.