@Animatronixx: to continue our discussion about the reputation of Japanese cars in Germany: there aren't many hearses based on Japanese cars over here? I cannot remember, that I ever have seen one.

Animatronixx do you say this to people when you go out with them to scare them?



It's an advert to prevent you from driving if you have drunk.

The big question says "¿We come back (as in to go back home) in your car or in mine?

Very few and most of them are undignified vans: Toyota Previa, Mitsubishi L 300, Nissan Vanette and things like that... Anything noteworthy.

Only a single Toyota Crown comes into my mind right now, and it had been converted by the funeral director himself.





I never did before, but I think I´ll do next time when I slide in that kind of situation.

A few years ago, I received a request for my hearse when somebody wanted to start a similar "Don´t drink and drive"-campaign here in Germany. What a shame they didn´t realize it, for I would have loved to support them.

Anyway, muchas gracias for that picture, CarChasesFanatic!. I´ve never seen the Spanish version of that idea.

Don't mention it! i found it funny and thought you would too!

@Animatronixx: sorry, my mistake, the LÜN-Mercedes wasn't offered at Ebay, it was at mobile.de. I don't have more informations. Perhaps I can find out the first owner, the funeral company.

To be more exact: it was a 1968-74 longer W115, but not a "W115 lang". The chassis was longer after the back axle.


Thanks for looking for plates. MT shouldn't be a problem, much harder to find are WEB, WEI, HAB and a bit more away USI, GOA and GOH. Old sheds, tractor-garages or grandfather's cellars are nowadays the best chances.

Doesn´t help at all. It´s a /8 with extended rear overhang, like most of them were equipped. First owner will not help half as much as a picture... Do you have one?



WEB was here long time ago. The other ones I had never seen before.

Oops, a bad mistake of me: WEL, not WEI : Weilburg
HAB : Hachenburg
USI : Usingen
GOA : St.Goar
GOH : St Goarshausen




By the way: are still some hearses, based on the Mercedes W 110 "Heckflosse" in use?

This would fit for my funeral, too. "As it has begun, it will end" - in a 1966 Mercedes 190 I was transported the first time in my life. My grandfather has picked up me and my mother after my birth.

In Aus, the most common Hearse are like these:
http://www.imcdb.org/vehicle_195702-Ford-Falcon-Hearse-BA-2002.html
http://www.imcdb.org/vehicle_195699-Ford-Fairlane-Ghia-BA-2002.html
But I would like a Cadillac Hearse (older). I saw a '64 at a car show a litte while back.
looked a little like these:
http://www.professionalcar.org/forums/showthread.php?t=13976

A youtube with a hearse for a second (3:33). Posted in our license-plate-collector-forum, because of its faked plates.
http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=Txzo5vDWFhk

A woman was killed in a Hearse while transporting her dead husband’s coffin to the cemetery funeral. The Hearse was involved in a accident on the way to the cemetery, and the coffin was thrown forward and broke the woman’s (who was setting in the front passenger seat of the Hearse) neck, she died instantly. The Driver of the Hearse survived.

Here is some more info:
http://news.aol.com/article/husbands-coffin-kills-woman-on-way-to/244572?referer=sphere_related_content

Kind of ironic, huh ?

Unbelieveable i wonder though how could the coffin get ejected, they are supposed to go held to the floor of the room, no?

I would have thought they would have been strapped down too...

Not necessarily. It all depends on the vehicle they used as well as the strength of the impact. And we don´t even know if they really strapped the coffin down. Brazilian hearses are often based on pick ups or station wagons, of which the latter mostly lack a divider between the cabin and the rear compartment.

So if the casket floor is just a bit higher than the front seats, gruesome things like this can happen.

I see thanks now that you're here can i ask you something? the other day i saw an E-Klasse Hearse from my flat, it had a nice design or at least unusual in my opinion, would you have any idea of what could it be?

By now - no!

The E-Class is Europe´s hearse base chassis No. 1, so almost everybody converts them. Thus I could come up with more than 50 suggestions - if we just concentrate on the current W211. If we include it´s predecessors, we get hundreds of possibilities.

For many of them could be described as nice or unusual (depending on each person´s point of view), I need a little more details.

Comparable to anything we already have on the site?

None of those, the only thing i can tell you is that it was "grey" or "light blue" and what i liked was the fact that instead of having a big glass on each side it had a "rounded-diagonal" (what an explanation, i'm terrible) pillar, so we could say that it had the glass like divided in two, more or less

Oh, wait! Like this?



Otherwise we only have one chance: Draw it, scan it, show it and I´ll find out more.

Very similar to that yes! but with the current generation of E-Klasse not that one and perhaps a little bit shorter?

Do you know the name of the funeral-company? If yes, just look for their hearses.
If not, look in the yellow pages. They won't be probably too many funeral-companies, that it would be too confusing to find our, which cars they have.

Here´s the short version on W211-chassis with rear overhang extension:



Coachbuilder for both vehicles was Ellena Autotrasformazioni of Saluzzo/ Italy, but a few other makes could also be responsible for what you have seen. Anyway, it´s quite likely that it was an Italian coachwork, which is fairly possible in Spain. At least no Spanish competitor currently showing a comparable style of bodies comes into my mind.