https://www.equip-bid.com/auction/23315/item/21008
Newest dumb idea. All of $250 or so, as of 10AM.
A: carefully.
I don't expect it to be cheap or easy.
Make sure that all the glass is in good shape. Every piece is custom!
A friend drove an early-’70s Cadillac hearse as his daily in college. (Great for moving.) It’s longer than you think.
That is 25' of awesome. Buy it and do a build thread.
You probably need a hotshot guy with a wedge or an enclosed trailer. There are some out there that specialize in moving not running classics.
Do it!
In reply to Toyman! :
A wedge trailer eh? I'll have to poke around for that, I've never looked or tried.
In reply to GIRTHQUAKE :
They let you haul long stuff on a gooseneck. They also load fairly easily because there is no break at the back of the deck or dovetail.
That's awesome!!
PLEASE include a reclined driving position from the center rear!
John Welsh said:A: carefully.
I don't expect it to be cheap or easy.
Make sure that all the glass is in good shape. Every piece is custom!
My brother in law entered a hearse in a demolition derby. First thing they did to prep the car was break out all the windows. Sigh.
David S. Wallens said:A friend drove an early-’70s Cadillac hearse as his daily in college. (Great for moving.) It’s longer than you think.
I once got in a drag race down the Las Vegas Strip: my '66 Cadillac vs a '65 Cadillac hearse. I beat him. He said he had Uncle Ernie in the back.
I never realized how long the hearse was until he parked it next to a Suburban.
Looking for a wedge trailer now, but I have no idea how I'd stash it here at home since it's all on an incline. Eh, where there's a will and all that.
If it's somehow feasible for transport and I snag it for a few hundred, I'm taking it as a sign from god and making it a challenge "car". I won't win, but I am worthy.
In reply to GIRTHQUAKE :
Bring it.
I really wanted to hate that from the description but then I opened it and I do not, I do not at all.
The link doesn't work for me, but isn't it a standard wagon wheelbase?
Find the wheelbase specs on it. Looks like an 18' flatbed would do it no problem.
It's a 66, BTW. They just called it a "60's"
In reply to GIRTHQUAKE :
One of my early vehicles was a 1953 Cadillac Hearse. It had a LaSalle manual gear box which is the absolute smoothest shifting gearbox ever made.
But they are really bulky vehicles. You haven't lived until you try to parallel park that. Hint; figure on using 2 spaces.
Typically a rollback tow truck will be able to carry it. The bed on those is at least 20'
$405 with 30 minutes to go.
Looks like while it could fit a trailer, I can't yet figure how I could get it on my driveway or in my front lawn without functional brakes.
GIRTHQUAKE said:Looks like while it could fit a trailer, I can't yet figure how I could get it on my driveway or in my front lawn without functional brakes.
Organic wheel chocks?
In reply to STM317 :
Heh
Ended up having to let it go; it went for $500 which is barely anything, but my property is too far of an incline to be able to finagle it in. My driveway also dumps onto a busy street so there would be a good chance backing it up onto my lawn would demand shutting off traffic somehow.
In reply to GIRTHQUAKE :
Oh, I think the winner is the man who was not the last bidder. Congrats.
The two left side are not even on tires. I'd assume the same for the right.
That thing is fantastic. I'm really glad it didn't end up in my driveway!
I can't speak for Pontiac but with a Cadillac they share NOTHING with a passenger car from the firewall back. Well, perhaps rear tires and taillights. Even the rear axle housing is different. Cadillac Commercial Chassis is a different animal.
X2. Also much longer than a typical wagon. I'm pretty sure the 68 Cad ambulance a couple of us shared in college had a good 3 feet more between the wheels than a full-size wagon.
I think old hearses are getting more popular, I hear that people are dying to get into them.
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