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1950 Dodge Coronet hearse

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,318 ✭✭✭✭carchaeologist


    Maybe the ultimate?
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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,575 ✭✭✭junkyard


    I used to have a 1947 Dodge hearse years ago but could never get anywhere to store it as it was a hearse so I sold it for parts to a man who was restoring a similar car. I have a 1963 Daimler Majestic hearse and restored an Austin a few years ago for a customer. I also had the DeSoto in the photo too.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,318 ✭✭✭✭carchaeologist


    Are you restoring the Daimler?The austin is nice,where did it end up?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 813 ✭✭✭Kevin_Herron


    junkyard wrote: »
    I used to have a 1947 Dodge hearse years ago but could never get anywhere to store it as it was a hearse so I sold it for parts to a man who was restoring a similar car. I have a 1963 Daimler Majestic hearse and restored an Austin a few years ago for a customer. I also had the DeSoto in the photo too.

    That DeSoto is a nice car, a late friend of mine brought it into the country. Rhodesian wasnt it?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,318 ✭✭✭✭carchaeologist


    You should consider writing a book Kevin!A history of the american automobile in ireland!:)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,575 ✭✭✭junkyard


    That DeSoto is a nice car, a late friend of mine brought it into the country. Rhodesian wasnt it?

    It was, a government car as far as I remember, it's in Fermoy now as far as I know.
    The Austin is gone back to it's owner or owners son actually who asked me to restore it, it's in Cappoquin in co. Waterford. I'll get a round to the Daimler hearse someday but I'm trying to get the Daimler car finished first.
    Did anyone else see this 1929 Cadillac hearse on www.classiccarsforsale.co.uk and only $60,000.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,407 ✭✭✭G Luxel


    That cadillac 1929 hearse must have been coachbuilt in Europe or South America as there is no record of anything like that built in the States.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,318 ✭✭✭✭carchaeologist


    junkyard wrote: »
    Did anyone else see this 1929 Cadillac hearse on www.classiccarsforsale.co.uk and only $60,000.
    86040.jpg
    I dont like that,looks like it has a bad haircut!:p


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,575 ✭✭✭junkyard


    It looks like a Gotham city hearse, the bodywork is hand carved you know.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,318 ✭✭✭✭carchaeologist


    A few takes on the silver shadow...
    hearse2.jpg

    casale.jpg

    hearse.jpg


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,318 ✭✭✭✭carchaeologist


    came across this while googling..is it real or photoshopped?
    BergadanaSeatMalaga1.jpg


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,318 ✭✭✭✭carchaeologist


    Some now deceased irish hearses..
    -PIC FAIL- see below.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 357 ✭✭3nero


    Pics not working
    you have to be signed into the bangers to see them:mad:

    I nearly bought an old cortina hearse about 15 years ago i had cash in hand and everything but the guy wouldn't sell it to me because i worked for a circus, he said it was disrespectfull :rolleyes:
    when i told a friend about she said i was crazy and "imagine how many people have died in it" so i pointed out she was living in a converted ambulance and way more people have died in her camper than have ever died in a hearse, she didn't get it :rolleyes:

    and that reminds me, i spotted a funky looking green hearse in tullamore last year, i have a pic somewhere, i go looking for it now.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,575 ✭✭✭junkyard


    Some I came across.............


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 357 ✭✭3nero


    Found it:D

    this is the only pic i got of it in traffic

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    I'd drive that no problem :cool:


    EDIT: looks like i saw it in Athy not tullamore:o


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,575 ✭✭✭junkyard


    3nero wrote: »
    Pics not working
    you have to be signed into the bangers to see them:mad:

    I nearly bought an old cortina hearse about 15 years ago i had cash in hand and everything but the guy wouldn't sell it to me because i worked for a circus, he said it was disrespectfull :rolleyes:
    when i told a friend about she said i was crazy and "imagine how many people have died in it" so i pointed out she was living in a converted ambulance and way more people have died in her camper than have ever died in a hearse, she didn't get it :rolleyes:

    and that reminds me, i spotted a funky looking green hearse in tullamore last year, i have a pic somewhere, i go looking for it now.

    I had a similar problem when I went to buy my Daimler Majestic hearse, the guy selling it didn't want to sell it to me because he was convinced I wanted it to banger race it. I had to get a friend of mine who knew him to buy it from him for me.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,318 ✭✭✭✭carchaeologist


    3nero wrote: »
    Pics not working
    you have to be signed into the bangers to see them:mad:

    I nearly bought an old cortina hearse about 15 years ago i had cash in hand and everything but the guy wouldn't sell it to me because i worked for a circus, he said it was disrespectfull :rolleyes:
    when i told a friend about she said i was crazy and "imagine how many people have died in it" so i pointed out she was living in a converted ambulance and way more people have died in her camper than have ever died in a hearse, she didn't get it :rolleyes:
    Ill try and sort the pic problem..

    And thats a funny story about the camper,i doubt anyone has ever died in a hearse!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,318 ✭✭✭✭carchaeologist


    Right,sorry about that..hopefully this will work,size might be a bit small.
    (pics by Niall Hogan)
    Vauxhall Cresta,from the early 90s apparently,somewhere in west cork
    crestahearse.jpg

    And a Crown hearse,and a Wolseley 6/110,the 6/110 was definatly bangered,and id bet the Crown went the same way.
    crown6110.jpg

    I have posted pics of the 6/110 before.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,318 ✭✭✭✭carchaeologist


    junkyard wrote: »
    Some I came across.............
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    Whats the story behind this one?Hearses seem to be kept in sheds after their usefull life up in Donegal!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,575 ✭✭✭junkyard


    The Opel is one of the ones in McCools funeral home and here's what became of the Crown and the Wolseley.................:(


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 357 ✭✭3nero


    Ill try and sort the pic problem..

    And thats a funny story about the camper,i doubt anyone has ever died in a hearse!

    Not unless the driver had a heartattack while on duty :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 813 ✭✭✭Kevin_Herron


    Heres a few Mopar hearses.

    The '50 Dodge and '51 Chrysler were in the same shed. The Dodge was half cut into a pick the last I heard and the Chrysler was originally a Guinness car before it was converted into a hearse.

    The other '51 Chrysler KI 4661 is presumed scrapped.

    The other car '52 Plymouth is also presumed scrapped- photographed in Athy.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,318 ✭✭✭✭carchaeologist


    How old are those pics kevin?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 813 ✭✭✭Kevin_Herron


    I'd say late Eighties/early nineties to all photographs.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 176 ✭✭MorrisCooper


    O'Flaherty's Undertakers in Galway had a Dodge Coronet hearse. They were also BMC, Peugeot, and Datsun dealers. I acquired a load of spare parts that were part of their spare parts inventory many years ago. I sold some Coronet rear lenses in their original boxes back to a collector in the US via Ebay. Still have a few bits left.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,318 ✭✭✭✭carchaeologist


    mamakevf wrote: »
    Some pics of a local Dodge hearse, supposedly 1948
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    PICT0339.jpg
    Another thread on this here...
    http://www.28dayslater.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=41411&highlight=undertakers+donegal


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 254 ✭✭mamakevf


    Place has now supposedly been boarded up.
    Too many visitors it seems


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,318 ✭✭✭✭carchaeologist


    Some more from ireland..
    mk2granadahearse.jpg

    ZEPHYRHEARSE.jpg

    chevroletbiscaynehearse.jpg

    ZBREGHEARSE.jpg

    ZBREGHEARSE2.jpg

    hearse48.jpg


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,318 ✭✭✭✭carchaeologist


    And a MK3 Zody..
    mk3zodiachearse.jpg


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 813 ✭✭✭Kevin_Herron


    I'm not sure whatever became of CAI 911, there were only 14 of those '62 Chevrolets here.

    The ZB reg'd Ford in Rigneys is there a long time. Nice to see one has survived.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 176 ✭✭MorrisCooper


    I remember several American hearses languishing behind a pub/undertaker in Abbeyknockmoy in Co. Galway. There were also VW minibuses, a '50s Sunbeam Rapier, and old Mercs. Probably long since cleared.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 231 ✭✭DarenO


    a selection of hearses i've taken photos of over the last twenty odd years


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 231 ✭✭DarenO


    two more


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 231 ✭✭DarenO


    two more

    Kevin Herron as resident Irish registered American cars expert, do you know the fate of the attached American hearse, i also have it on film from a 'reeling in the years' type program from years ago

    also out of interest, there was a 59 Chevy Biscayne/Impala (not a hearse) in a house outside Glenageary Dart station did that survive

    Regards
    Darren


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,575 ✭✭✭junkyard


    Very interesting photo of the Daimler Majestic hearse there DarenO, I've got the Limo version of the hearse and its reg number is ZBI388, they must have been brought in at the same time, it's a 1981 rereg on the tax book anyway.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,318 ✭✭✭✭carchaeologist


    I'm not sure whatever became of CAI 911, there were only 14 of those '62 Chevrolets here.
    That particular one was banger raced in england apparently.Id say the MK2 Granada and the Zephyr were raced too.

    This is a youtube clip(without sound)of the hearses raced in Warneton raceway in belgium between 03 and 08.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 813 ✭✭✭Kevin_Herron


    DarenO wrote: »
    two more

    Kevin Herron as resident Irish registered American cars expert, do you know the fate of the attached American hearse, i also have it on film from a 'reeling in the years' type program from years ago

    also out of interest, there was a 59 Chevy Biscayne/Impala (not a hearse) in a house outside Glenageary Dart station did that survive

    Regards
    Darren

    Its a '55 Plymouth and to the best of my knowledge has not survived.

    With regards to the '59 Chevrolet, that car belonged to a Judge, O'Connor was his name. You would often see the car parked outside the Four Courts.
    He had two '59s and a '60.
    '59 was API 795 and the '60 was KZC664.
    The '60 is rotting away in a field in Tipperary and the '59 ended up in Killarney at the motor museum. It was sold privately when the museum closed down.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,318 ✭✭✭✭carchaeologist


    You need to write a book Kevin,your knowledge of american motors over here is amazing.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 813 ✭✭✭Kevin_Herron


    Not sure about a book!

    I'm fairly sure that Majestic Major hearse is living in Carlow, owned by an insurance broker that also owns a saloon.

    The Mk2 beside is also alive and well- AAI900.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,575 ✭✭✭junkyard


    Not sure about a book!

    I'm fairly sure that Majestic Major hearse is living in Carlow, owned by an insurance broker that also owns a saloon.

    Thanks Kevin, from the looks of it it looks like a Majestic rather than a Majestic Major, it's got spot lights where the vents with the "V" should be indicating that it may only be a 3.8 straight six rather than the 4.5 V8. It seems to be missing the parking lights over the headlamps too. There's a very similar hearse featured in the Jaguar/ Daimler book by Robert Hughes, I wonder if it's the same one?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 373 ✭✭dutchcat


    DarenO wrote: »
    two more

    Kevin Herron as resident Irish registered American cars expert, do you know the fate of the attached American hearse, i also have it on film from a 'reeling in the years' type program from years ago

    also out of interest, there was a 59 Chevy Biscayne/Impala (not a hearse) in a house outside Glenageary Dart station did that survive

    he also had 2 more stored in a yard on adeliade road in glenageary


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,318 ✭✭✭✭carchaeologist


    NLD006.jpg
    http://www.kennellyarchive.com/id/NLD006/
    Another one for Kevin to name


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 813 ✭✭✭Kevin_Herron


    '51 Hudson Pacemaker. Magic looking in car form!

    They were assembled by Assemblers Garage in Ringsend.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,318 ✭✭✭✭carchaeologist


    Thanks Kevin,looks good as a hearse too,with the closed in rear wheels.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,318 ✭✭✭✭carchaeologist


    I see the saloon has the same closed over wheels.
    292819926_a6df710860.jpg?v=0
    Nice styling alright.Im guessing the hearse above was a converted car by a local coachbuilder.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,575 ✭✭✭junkyard


    Gorgeous looking hearse, it's an awful shame more people don't like hearses, looks like this one didn't survive either.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 813 ✭✭✭Kevin_Herron


    There is an original Irish ZL reg'd Pacemaker saloon that has survived.

    It sat for many years in Greystones, next to the Burnaby bar.
    It was bought in 1990 by Joe Headon, sold shortly after he died and the last I heard is in a Hudson collection in Belfast.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,318 ✭✭✭✭carchaeologist


    Another one here,think the reg of this one was DIN***
    TVL008.jpg
    Is it a Biscayne?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,318 ✭✭✭✭carchaeologist




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 813 ✭✭✭Kevin_Herron


    Another one here,think the reg of this one was DIN***
    TVL008.jpg
    Is it a Biscayne?

    It is. A '62.

    They have quite a high survival rate! There are a few left.


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