1965 Imperial Flower Car?

I would say just another body shop pickup. though the lack of a tailgate makes is hard to use for anything. hard to till in the pictures if it has one or not
 
got the snaps for a tarp but does not seem to have a system for bracing the tarp and don't to often see a tarp over decorator bars? but they called it a flower hauler hardly the sales pitch for a funeral vehicle maybe they invented the word hurst also.
 
I continue to find it interesting how when I'm discussing professional cars with someone, I usually have to explain what a flower car is, yet every hick with a sawzall and a case of beer who decides to cut half the roof off their car now has a "flower car". :wtf:
 
Patrick J. Martin said:
I continue to find it interesting how when I'm discussing professional cars with someone, I usually have to explain what a flower car is, yet every hick with a sawzall and a case of beer who decides to cut half the roof off their car now has a "flower car". :wtf:
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Kind of an odd statement coming from someone who professes to have a passion for "one-off" professional cars!

We have no way to know what this car was originally used for. This car looks to have been fairly well done, but now suffers from sitting outside, as any pro car will. This car started out as a 4-door hardtop. Take another look at where the rear doors were and the upper body stainless moldings. Does that appear to be the work of "a hick with a SawzAll and a case of beer"? A fairly significant percentage of the vehicles that served as "flower cars" were built by small shops.
 
It could vary will have been built for a funeral home. Then again I know a tracking sales man that had one built because he would in evasion have to take a warranty washing machine back with him and he did not want to drive a pickup all the time. With out documentation it's not a flower car with it it is such is life.
 
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