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Cadillac Funeral Coach

Cadillac Funeral Coach in Six Feet Under, TV Series, 2001-2005 Ep. 1.01

Class: Cars, Funeral — Model origin:

Cadillac Funeral Coach

Vehicle used by a character or in a car chase

Comments about this vehicle

Author	Message
ahight 2007-02-21 03:24	The dad's new hearse in the opening of Season 1, Episode 1: Commercial that opens the first episode: Another one used during dad's funeral: -- Last edit: 2007-02-21 04:07:56
Neptune 2007-02-21 04:20	ahight wrote The dad's new hearse in the opening of Season 1, Episode 1 Didn’t stay new for long did it?
wannajeep 2007-09-11 09:50	Oh you have got to be kidding me. I know this is what's going to happen to me when I die. That poor car.
G-MANN 2008-01-28 23:18	It's DeVille (1994-97) based isn't it? Should it be listed as a Cadillac DeVille Funeral Coach?
Animatronixx 2008-01-29 02:20	This is an established professional car mystery and maybe this is the database to solve it for good. The hearse that was hit by the bus was in fact an older Cadillac hearse, built around the late 80s or early 90s (see rear fender style and - way more evident - door frames and windshield), but the film company carried out several modifications (incl. mounting an entire new front end) to make it look like a "modern" funeral coach, for they couldn´t or didn´t want to afford a contemporary hearse to smash. So the car is a complete bastard - or something you might call a "Greatest Hits of 90s Cadillacs all-in-one". I´m not even sure about the body, which reminds me of several coachbuilders. Any ideas what could have been the chassis most likely?
G-MANN 2008-01-29 10:56	Thanks for pointing that out.
Mackster 2008-01-29 15:28	Animatronixx wrote This is an established professional car mystery and maybe this is the database to solve it for good. The hearse that was hit by the bus was in fact an older Cadillac hearse, built around the late 80s or early 90s (see rear fender style and - way more evident - door frames and windshield), but the film company carried out several modifications (incl. mounting an entire new front end) to make it look like a "modern" funeral coach, for they couldn´t or didn´t want to afford a contemporary hearse to smash. So the car is a complete bastard - or something you might call a "Greatest Hits of 90s Cadillacs all-in-one". I´m not even sure about the body, which reminds me of several coachbuilders. Any ideas what could have been the chassis most likely? many details of it reminds me off Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham 1993-1996. For example the front, wheel arches, and some of the rear details. http://www.fvn.no/amcar/brochures/cadillac/94c_38.html -- Last edit: 2008-01-29 16:40:22
G-MANN 2008-01-29 16:32	The grille is DeVille rather than Fleetwood though.
Ingo 2008-01-29 19:32	@animatronixx: have you seen the pic in the new "Markt" of the GDR-made hearse an Dacia-basis? By the way: what hearses they had in the GDR? Barkas, I guess.
Animatronixx 2008-01-29 20:13	@Mackster: Beneath the beltline it reminds me of the 93-96 Fleetwood either, but the edgy door frames make me believe the original car was an earlier FWD De Ville/ Fleetwood or even a Brougham of the early 90s. Also the rear wheel arches make believe in an early 90s Fleetwood, @Ingo: No, I didn´t know the last Oldtimer Markt (the last magazine was the AutoBild Klassik incl. the feature of you and your K 70 collection ), but it could only be that light grey or blue GDR Dacia hearse prototype by a coachbuilder who currently refuses to come in my mind. A TÜV inspector once sent me a picture of that car and I furthermore know it by an older KFT issue (GDR car magazine). Anyway, thanks for this hint. In GDR, most hearses were slightly modified Barkas B 1000, of which we also list some on this site. -- Last edit: 2008-01-29 20:14:36
Ingo 2008-01-29 20:44	@Animatronixx: a small correction: it wasn't me in that article, it was Markus from Schwaben. But, surely, we K 70-freaks all know each other, worldwide
Ingo 2008-01-29 20:48	P.S. the Dacia-hearse wasn't a real prototype, it was made by special order, by a private coachbuilder in the GDR. It was one of the small private companies of the GDR, which has survived the whole socialism, especially the year 1972. -- Last edit: 2008-01-29 20:49:04
Animatronixx 2008-01-30 02:00	Ingo wrote P.S. the Dacia-hearse wasn't a real prototype, it was made by special order, by a private coachbuilder in the GDR. It was one of the small private companies of the GDR, which has survived the whole socialism, especially the year 1972. Oh, I´m sorry for having confused you with your comrade. According to my sources, the Dacia was built by a company named E. Neumann (Alfred?!? ) in 1987. It seems like they had in mind to craft more of these, but suddenly the fall of Berlin Wall intervened and protected the world from additional Dacia hearses. -- Last edit: 2008-01-30 02:01:14

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