1932 Ford Ambulance/Hearse

Very nice vehicle and... Ed, I agree with you... The only thing between me and this vehicle is money!

I do have a question though... checking out the pictures... would this be considered a 3-way?
 
nice close modal but now that you have pictures of the car you can tweak it to be right on. but some how washing the 1/25 scale is not the same as the 1 to 1. from there description this would be a 3 way combination car. I have never seen one before. the tracks on the floor with out a table or the table was removable for the ambulance mode? the more you look at things the more questions you have. but needless to say it's been inside and not shared for a long time.
 
Yep, a 3-way combination. Interesting. I don't think this had a table, this has angled rollers toward the front. The casket could pivot a bit on the big ball-bearing-rollers, then you'd just have to muscle it out the side doors.
 
Superior also had this type of 3 way table starting in the mid 30's. Called the Sidroll it used angled rollers to slide the casket in and out of the coach without a movable table. There is a '47 Superior Cadillac combo about 30 miles from me that has this option, even has a partition.
 
This was sold (or was up for for auction at least) last year by a different company, The Worldwide Group. Looks to be in the same condition as before, but with a much needed new top.
 

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Curious as to where the 32 Ford hearse is today as I was the second owner of it from 1970 to 1993. Car was built in Kansas City, MO. and spend allot of years in southwest Missouri. It first appeared nationally in the Ford Early V8 Times back in 1972 after I won my class and the peoples choice award in Wichita, KS.

It was my first car at the ripe old age of 12 years old. Bought from a funeral home for $1,400 with 28K miles. When I sold the car in spring of 93 for $15,500 it went to Cincinnati, OH. Lot of fond memories and allot of fun owning what appears to still be the only 32 Ford Ambulance/Hearse.

I also purchased at age 13 a very nice 1938 Packard Henney 1601A formal hearse. I bought in it 1971 from Konantz Mortuary in Ft. Scott , KS for $500. So with both hearses I took allot of ribbing as a dead beat kid. They kept my off the street and in my dads garage getting them into show condition. The unique thing is both cars were found not that far apart, both were black with "blue" interiors and side mount spares in the "left" front fender. Sold it back in 1978 to a Missouri undertaker that was also an avid car collector.
 
It was that time in life for a dirt bike and had to forfeit it for the 32. Having a cool father that was an excellent mechanic and body man didn't hurt either:thumb:

Mowed allot of yards for the $500 buck to buy the Packard-Henny though./Users/carsoneads/Desktop/1932 V8 Ford Hearse.jpg


Here is the 32 and me at age 14 after the Early Ford V8 regional meet back in 1972.
 
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John Royark JR said:
Superior also had this type of 3 way table starting in the mid 30's. Called the Sidroll it used angled rollers to slide the casket in and out of the coach without a movable table. There is a '47 Superior Cadillac combo about 30 miles from me that has this option, even has a partition.
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There was a 1956 Superior Combination landau that had this option for sale in a Washington state junk yard a number of years ago. I remember thinking the angled rollers towards the door was really odd.
 
The 32 was ordered by R. Haunschild funeral home in either Lockwood or Greenfield Missouri. When Mr. Haunschild retired he sold everything in his business to another undertaker in the next town over. That is where we found my 32 stored away setting next to what my dads friend was contacted about buying. It was a 1950 Packard Ambulance that had been side swiped. The undertaker wanted to much for it in it's damage state but we purchased the 32 Ford.
 
Carson Eads said:
I also purchased at age 13 a very nice 1938 Packard Henney 1601A formal hearse. I bought in it 1971 from Konantz Mortuary in Ft. Scott , KS for $500. So with both hearses I took allot of ribbing as a dead beat kid. They kept my off the street and in my dads garage getting them into show condition. The unique thing is both cars were found not that far apart, both were black with "blue" interiors and side mount spares in the "left" front fender. Sold it back in 1978 to a Missouri undertaker that was also an avid car collector.
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Do you have any pics of the car to share?
 
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