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1963 Ford Galaxie Begrafeniswagen 
Typ: Pkw, Bestattungswagen — Herkunftsland: 
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◊ 2013-01-25 12:20 |
US Ford-based? |
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◊ 2013-01-25 13:10 |
Yes, it is. It looks like it was made between 1962 and 1964. Got a shot of the front end? |
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◊ 2013-01-25 13:38 |
Looks like 1963 taillights to me  |
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◊ 2013-01-25 17:55 |
Must be a Dutch conversion, and even the base car was probably built in Holland (Amsterdam Ford assembly plant). |
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◊ 2013-01-25 18:02 |
Did they also build hearses? Is there any car company known, which produces own hearses? I cannot remember any. Ambulances, Campers, Firefighter-versions and many others, too, but no hearses. All hearses, I know, were made by separate coachbuilders. |
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◊ 2013-01-25 18:52 |
There were several Dutch coachbuilders specialised in hearse conversions... Where is AnimatrixX when you need him? |
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◊ 2013-01-25 21:38 |
No idea, I have lost the contact to him since over one year. I even couldn't reach him by phone. @DynaMike: I mean car-brands in my comment. If there's any car-brand, which has own built hearses in their portfolio. |
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◊ 2013-01-25 22:10 |
/vehicle_477426-Ford-Galaxie-1963.html any help? |
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◊ 2013-01-25 22:14 |
Not for my question as it was also built by an external coachbuilder and not by Ford or Amsterdam Ford itself. |
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◊ 2013-01-26 00:45 |
I put a link on a hearse-page on facebook. Maybe there's somebody who could help us .gif ":)") |
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◊ 2013-01-26 01:24 |
Caller ID probably. "Ingo again... We're not at home."  |
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◊ 2013-01-26 02:17 |
I can't thick of any exceptions. Perhaps it's the nature of the market that the ... um ... body is more important than the car, which only has to trundle round at 30mph, avoid breaking down, and look prestigious. Maybe also that hearse adaptations are unsuitable processes for factory production lines - big glass sheets, traditional polished wood and shiny brass etc. And the skills are more appropriate to craftsmen, so are more common in coachbuilders - so many coachbuilders build hearses, not just hearse builders. Worth noting that many manufacturers probably encourage hearse conversions by providing chassis or chassis/cab bases compatible with converters specifications. It might sound silly, but the scenario is probably similar to ice-cream and burger vans - low but steady demand, specialised fittings, very specific requirements with bodywork that can not be adapted for other uses so no economies of scale - and therefore will always be specialised external builds. |
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◊ 2013-01-26 14:31 |
Well, they are a typical British issue, in Germany there are no special coachbuilders for that. Ice-cream-vans here are mainly former Bundespost/DHL parcel transporter, converted after the first usage. Interestingly I cannot remember any former UPS-transporter in the ice-cream business now. And no hearses either, which had transported packets and parcels in their first life. Animatronixx has told me once, that there are some hearse-coachbuilders, which are specialised in converting used cars. Often they take accident cars, whose back is smashed. Some undertakers really like to save money by this way. |
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◊ 2019-01-14 23:40 |
Not really specialized in converting used cars, but many of the coachbuilders would do this on request. It's an affordable way to get a prestigious funeral car - nothing wrong with that. My former Rappold MB [W116] suffered the same fate. It was used to tow a funeral trailer, until someone rear ended it. That was the day they decided to have it converted to a hearse. And that Begrafeniswagen over here looks like it was bodied by Boonacker of Haarlem, NL - but that's merely a guess. |
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