I found this for sale while browsing tonight and had to share it. I know Cadillac made them, but not Lincoln. This is totally cool.... It is stored with a ton of dust on it and the price is too much for me.
The coachbuilders made them from whatever sort of car you wanted it built on. Caddy, Lincoln, Olds, Buick, Chevy, Pontiac, Packard...
i had never seen one of those until 4 years ago...this guy in jersey, a real hardcore lincoln guy, had one in one of his garages.....he let me see it, and i must have stared at it for an hour from every angle,,,definitely one of the coolest cars i've ever seen....he has since passed away, and i'm sure the car has been sold,,,hell, the one you saw may even be the same car,,ohio isnt that far from jersey
very cool car These, as well as hearse and undertaker limo versions of cool old cars have always attracted me and it's not just because my older relatives are from Transylvania.
Hey, My WAG says that is this Lincoln flower car was built by Sayers & Scovill/Hess & Eisenhart Company, Cincinnati, Ohio. During that era, there were no less than eight professional car ( ambulance, hearse, flower car ) building companies in the state of Ohio. Flower cars built by any professional car builder, in any state are mega rare, with usually no more than a handfull built by anyone builder in a given year. The fact that this Lincoln is built on a '58-'60 chassis, then the largest unitbody chassis ever produced for a vehicle at that date in time, plus the cost of conversion, all hand built, spells mega money when new " A government by the people, for the people '' my ass !
When did flower cars transform into station wagons? I have owned two, a 74 Mercury Rideau 500 and a 69 Mercury Meteor 500, both bought from the local funeral home.
Hey, What you own is probably what's known as a " first call car " A first call car was used to transport the body from the place of death to the funeral parlor, and thus save ware and tare on the newer, front line hearse. Your wagons could have been used as a '' service car ' as well. Service cars were /are used to transport chairs, flower arangements, and cemetery equipment as well as '' the dead '' if necessary. '' A government by the people, for the people '' my ass !
Maybe so, I don't recall seeing el camino type vehicles as flower cars around here, only wagons, could do both jobs I guess, it's a small town rural area.
Yep, the same coach builders that converted the Caddys and Lincolns to Herses did the conversions on the flower cars. The Caddy dealer in down town Seattle had an early 50's Caddy flower car as their service rig for years that I used to drool over when I saw it.
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