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1939 La Salle Hearse kit (1960)

“Cannibal Harvester” by Shaggadelic

I love this first and foremost because it is done in the style of old model car boxes.  Also, it has a combine rotary thresher, and I’m a big fan of the publication “300 things you can make from a combine or schoolbus” because they cost $1500 and come with hydrostatic diesels, hoses, splitters, levers, and motors, and can be fitted with a variety of common remote-control and gps-guided systems, so it’s basically a giant robot in a box.  Thirdly, there’s a lack of good off-road hearse treatments but this one has it all, including gore-intake vents, a megaphone, cannon, machine gun, fold-down window hatch, and extended fuel range.

Airstream tried to get in on the funeral coach business in 1981 but it didn’t catch on.

National Academy Of Mortuary Science

In this funeral bus, the coffin is loaded in the same place as on a funeral train, sideways at one end.

http://thiscircularparade.com/2012/02/06/youve-heard-of-party-buses-but-how-about-a-funeral-bus/

Funeral Trains

In cities, where graveyards had been pushed to the edges of town, it was common to have a funeral train to take mourners to the funeral.  There was one in Chicago that ran from the Loop to the Graceland Cemetery (this rail corridor is now a bike path) and in London exporting the dead was such a chore that they had daily service on the awesomely-named London Necropolis Railway, where a first-class ticket would buy a better trip for the deceased.  Funeral trains would often be pulled by steam long after the advent of diesel engines.

Pictured above is a Guard Van from the Canberra Railway Museum.  It’s a multi-purpose car with a sitting area on one end, a freight door for mail and such, and a station for the train guards.  Then, at the utmost lower rear, is a little hatch.  The hatch is for sliding a coffin into a special compartment, for transportation between towns.  The coffin would be loaded after the passengers, who would never know they were traveling with the dead.

(Source: hilariousdeathindustry, via kingruiner)

I would so drive this.

Hearses of the 1920s from Spain via Justacarguy

Hearses of the 1920s from Spain via Justacarguy

Hearses of the 1920s from Spain via Justacarguy

Hearses of the 1920s from Spain via Justacarguy