1988 Oldsmobile hearse/1st call car

[Adam Borkat]

1988 Olds Ninety Eight Hearse - $2800 (Salt Lake City, Ut.)

Date: 2012-08-20, 5:09PM MDT
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1988 Olds Ninety Eight Hearse. Recently out of funeral service. 89,000 Actual miles. Finished in green with black vinyl top and grey velour interior. Looks and runs great. $2800 PHONE CALLS ONLY PLEASE
801608-0578

 

[Mike McDonald]

Must be from an IRISH owned funeral home?

 

[Cary Livingston]

Must be from an IRISH owned funeral home?

In my travels I learned that a lot of old school funeral homes chose green because it symbolized "eternal life". Others chose it to stand out from other firms in town. Yet others ended up with it because a crafty salesman made them buy it thinking it was a phenomenal deal. Green was also a quite popular color among automakers in the late as well as early 70's.

 

[Skip Goulet - Deceased 1945 - 2018]

Very nice, Adam. If you hadn't included the mfg.'s tag, I would've thought it was one of Summers' conversions. I had one of their '77 Chryslers, much like the one Tim Fantin had.

I like the green, it's quite professional. My '69 Olds Seville ambulance which is now a pewter color was once a green almost identical to this car. Whoever painted the car at some point didn't paint the door jambs. This car came from Texas, but ended up at Doug Scott's in L.A. and then in Florida. Then I got it! I'd like to know the Texas history of this one if anyone on the board knows something.