1960 Opel Kapitän Bestattungswagen [P-LV]

1960 Opel Kapitän Bestattungswagen [P-LV] in Das Kriminalmuseum, TV Series, 1963-1970 Ep. 01.06

Class: Cars, Funeral — Model origin:

00:16:15 Background vehicle

Author	Message
s13a ◊ 2021-10-26 21:37
Animatronixx ◊ 2021-10-26 22:45	Good job, man! This is the rare case of me not recognizing the coachbuilder, but in fact recognizing the face of a human being instead! (Mmmh... Wolfgang Völz?!) Requires investigation. I don't have a solution but may find one. I have a few ideas, but as of now they all seem ridiculous to me.
Ingo ◊ 2021-10-29 08:39	Yes, the young Käpten Blaubär. @AnimatronixX: hier ist in einer kurzen Szene ab 45:00 ein zweckentfremdeter Bestattungsanhänger zu sehen: Link to "www.ndr.de"
Animatronixx ◊ 2021-10-29 15:36	^ Ah, thanks! It's a Pfefferkorn Rheinland B and certainly doesn't belong there, because these came up around 1955 and usually stayed in service for several decades. (elegant transition in 3 2 1 seconds) The shape of the coachwork in question also reminds me of the very few motorized hearses Fahrzeugbau Willy Pfefferkorn built around [P-LV] o'clock, but that would be half a needle in 75 haystacks. And rather not in Munich, anyway. If this conversion wasn't built by an unknown, maybe regional coachbuilder that didn't build hearse bodies on a regular basis, this can be one of the many odd unique conversions carried out by either Johann Welsch (I think so) or Toni Welsch (I also think so... ), both of Mayen, or even Christian Miesen of Bonn, who kept Opeling every now and then until at least the 1980s.