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[this is a really different one]
(that's not a dent in the rear door, just a strange reflection of the sky)
(The hearse is packing a bit more power these days. A new 6.2-liter LS3 General Motors crate engine with 431 hp)
New Zealand funeral director Simon Manning’s dream hearse, a 1959 Cadillac, had eight years of restoration before it began service in New Zealand during the southern hemisphere’s past winter. Simon says every part of the American import received attention in the restoration, right down to the last nut and bolt.
“Colin the Cadillac” is an S&S Victoria combination hearse/ambulance built by Hess & Eisenhardt on a 1959 Cadillac commercial car chassis. The letters “S&S” stand for “Sayers & Scovill,” a coachbuilding firm in Ohio that specialized in professional car coachwork until employees Willard Hess and Charles Eisenhardt acquired controlling interest in 1942. The duo renamed the company “Hess & Eisenhardt,” but they continued to use the S&S name on some of their Hess & Eisenhardt models.
General Motors’ Cadillac division built a commercial chassis through 1984. This commercial chassis was designed for coachbuilders to install their hearse, ambulance, flower car and limousine bodies. As Cadillac moved toward front-wheel-drive automobiles in the mid 1980s, it announced it would cease building the commercial chassis, which was built in a dedicated area of Plant 21 in Detroit until the summer of 1984.
read more: https://www.oldcarsweekly.com/features/car-of-the-week-1959-cadillac-hearse-from-new-zealand
(that's not a dent in the rear door, just a strange reflection of the sky)
(The hearse is packing a bit more power these days. A new 6.2-liter LS3 General Motors crate engine with 431 hp)
New Zealand funeral director Simon Manning’s dream hearse, a 1959 Cadillac, had eight years of restoration before it began service in New Zealand during the southern hemisphere’s past winter. Simon says every part of the American import received attention in the restoration, right down to the last nut and bolt.
“Colin the Cadillac” is an S&S Victoria combination hearse/ambulance built by Hess & Eisenhardt on a 1959 Cadillac commercial car chassis. The letters “S&S” stand for “Sayers & Scovill,” a coachbuilding firm in Ohio that specialized in professional car coachwork until employees Willard Hess and Charles Eisenhardt acquired controlling interest in 1942. The duo renamed the company “Hess & Eisenhardt,” but they continued to use the S&S name on some of their Hess & Eisenhardt models.
General Motors’ Cadillac division built a commercial chassis through 1984. This commercial chassis was designed for coachbuilders to install their hearse, ambulance, flower car and limousine bodies. As Cadillac moved toward front-wheel-drive automobiles in the mid 1980s, it announced it would cease building the commercial chassis, which was built in a dedicated area of Plant 21 in Detroit until the summer of 1984.
read more: https://www.oldcarsweekly.com/features/car-of-the-week-1959-cadillac-hearse-from-new-zealand
