Milton Hill
PCS Member
The current issue of The Professional Car (Number 134) has an excellent article on the 1929 S&S Signed Sculpture Hearse. In 1966, I responded to an ad in Hemmings Motor News and subsequently purchased what I was told was a 1929 S&S Washington light hearse. I suppose that it is the Deluxe Washington casket coach mentioned at the top of page 11.
In March 1966, I took a bus to Plainview, Texas and bought the hearse from a Texas Tech student who had purchased it from the second owner. I was told that the vehicle was originally in a funeral home in western Nebraska. When the funeral home owner died, the hearse was inherited by a family member who farmed near Plainview. He stored it in a barn for many years. The student bought the car a year or two before I acquired it.
When I purchased the car, I then had to drive it 550 miles home. That was an experience! I drove it for a couple of years and then stored it inside for the next thirty some years - transporting it to Georgia from New Mexico in 1983. By this time it had just over 12,000 miles on the odometer.
A few years ago I sold it to a physician in Brazil, Indiana who owned a funeral home.
In March 1966, I took a bus to Plainview, Texas and bought the hearse from a Texas Tech student who had purchased it from the second owner. I was told that the vehicle was originally in a funeral home in western Nebraska. When the funeral home owner died, the hearse was inherited by a family member who farmed near Plainview. He stored it in a barn for many years. The student bought the car a year or two before I acquired it.
When I purchased the car, I then had to drive it 550 miles home. That was an experience! I drove it for a couple of years and then stored it inside for the next thirty some years - transporting it to Georgia from New Mexico in 1983. By this time it had just over 12,000 miles on the odometer.
A few years ago I sold it to a physician in Brazil, Indiana who owned a funeral home.
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