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Hillier Hearse
- Thread starter Tony Blair
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I like it, thanks for sharing Tony!
"Influenced by hot rod & modified car culture, we're challenging traditional thinking"
"We've thrown away the rule book, we're taking a whole new approach to styling, safety, & functionality"
Bold statements from a coach builder! Looks like it started life as a European Chrysler 300M. Kept the entire 4 door sedan features & the casket area is remarkable... blue LED's incorporated into the casket table (and that table is goregous!), gull wing side glass, underfloor compartment with side-sliding table. I'll never like a hatchback loading door, but these European coaches always amaze me. They love their full-view side windows & always have. What a classy coach...
"Influenced by hot rod & modified car culture, we're challenging traditional thinking"
"We've thrown away the rule book, we're taking a whole new approach to styling, safety, & functionality"
Bold statements from a coach builder! Looks like it started life as a European Chrysler 300M. Kept the entire 4 door sedan features & the casket area is remarkable... blue LED's incorporated into the casket table (and that table is goregous!), gull wing side glass, underfloor compartment with side-sliding table. I'll never like a hatchback loading door, but these European coaches always amaze me. They love their full-view side windows & always have. What a classy coach...
Danny Ryder - Deceased - 1962 - 2021
PCS Life Member
I like it, thanks for sharing Tony!
"Influenced by hot rod & modified car culture, we're challenging traditional thinking"
"We've thrown away the rule book, we're taking a whole new approach to styling, safety, & functionality"
Bold statements from a coach builder! Looks like it started life as a European Chrysler 300M. Kept the entire 4 door sedan features & the casket area is remarkable... blue LED's incorporated into the casket table (and that table is goregous!), gull wing side glass, underfloor compartment with side-sliding table. I'll never like a hatchback loading door, but these European coaches always amaze me. They love their full-view side windows & always have. What a classy coach...
Yeah, what Dwayne said!
John ED Renstrom
PCS Member
doesn't do it for me. it looks cheap cast out of plastic and easy to break. come on who really needs a 5 seater Hearse. the rear loading rack appears to be made of chrome plated pick up sticks. you would be just waiting for one to brake. they have incorporated a lot of stuff in to the car. but until they bite the bullet and cut the tops off the factory doors, put on squared off higher glass they will all look like a after thought.
speaking of after thoughts whats with that back end. looks like they tried to add a trunk but then thought it got to long and chopped it off. I applaud the do away with the side opening door but why can't they do one that slides up and over the roof like a van door comes back. sitting out front waiting to load it looks cheap, the end sticking straight up. eather have the door slide down under or up over hugging the roof. maybe do a clam shell thing and smooth it off in the rear. looks like it was cut out of a block of soap with a butcher knife. I like the big glass look but there has to be a better way to incorporate it in to the car rather then have it look like you had to stop short and ran your trailer into your car. heading in the right way just not quite there yet.
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speaking of after thoughts whats with that back end. looks like they tried to add a trunk but then thought it got to long and chopped it off. I applaud the do away with the side opening door but why can't they do one that slides up and over the roof like a van door comes back. sitting out front waiting to load it looks cheap, the end sticking straight up. eather have the door slide down under or up over hugging the roof. maybe do a clam shell thing and smooth it off in the rear. looks like it was cut out of a block of soap with a butcher knife. I like the big glass look but there has to be a better way to incorporate it in to the car rather then have it look like you had to stop short and ran your trailer into your car. heading in the right way just not quite there yet.
oster_oops:Rick Franklin
PCS Member
i cant see YouTube so im left in the dark as to what this looks like!
I'm with Ed, I don't care for it. I think it looks like a cross between a minivan and a hearse. Verry cheap looking, not classy at all. It does look like they were off to a good start though.doesn't do it for me. it looks cheap cast out of plastic and easy to break. come on who really needs a 5 seater Hearse. the rear loading rack appears to be made of chrome plated pick up sticks. you would be just waiting for one to brake. they have incorporated a lot of stuff in to the car. but until they bite the bullet and cut the tops off the factory doors, put on squared off higher glass they will all look like a after thought.
speaking of after thoughts whats with that back end. looks like they tried to add a trunk but then thought it got to long and chopped it off. I applaud the do away with the side opening door but why can't they do one that slides up and over the roof like a van door comes back. sitting out front waiting to load it looks cheap, the end sticking straight up. eather have the door slide down under or up over hugging the roof. maybe do a clam shell thing and smooth it off in the rear. looks like it was cut out of a block of soap with a butcher knife. I like the big glass look but there has to be a better way to incorporate it in to the car rather then have it look like you had to stop short and ran your trailer into your car. heading in the right way just not quite there yet.
Josh
Danny Ryder - Deceased - 1962 - 2021
PCS Life Member
I'm with Ed, I don't care for it. I think it looks like a cross between a minivan and a hearse. Verry cheap looking, not classy at all. It does look like they were off to a good start though.
Josh
Josh, I think what some of us are missing here or nor accepting is the hearse as we know it and love is probably a thing of the past as there is not a chassis suitable for the challenge as in the past.:cheers:
Danny, your right. I guess we are going to just have to start accepting the new ones, and realize there never going to look as good as they use to. I guess what they say is true, time changes everything. And the days of all the shiney chrome, whitewalls, and beautiful flowing lines are just a thing of the past.
Josh
Scott Avnaim
PCS Life Member
The past?????
I intend to keep on driving the past in the now. Functioning antiques are my way of life and I won't cave in to the cheaply made modern CRAP that many are forced to buy. BUILT BETTER, MADE TO LAST!!!
I intend to keep on driving the past in the now. Functioning antiques are my way of life and I won't cave in to the cheaply made modern CRAP that many are forced to buy. BUILT BETTER, MADE TO LAST!!!
Denny Shira - Deceased - 1951 - 2020
June 5, 1951 - January 29, 2020
hiller hearse
A new design,which may appeal to some.not to me!Give me the quiet dignity of A 1992 S&S rear wheel drive endloader,which is the rolls royce of american built hearses!!!!!!
A new design,which may appeal to some.not to me!Give me the quiet dignity of A 1992 S&S rear wheel drive endloader,which is the rolls royce of american built hearses!!!!!!
John ED Renstrom
PCS Member
that's still no reason not to build a car with nice flowing lines. they picked a good car the 300 is a nice boxy car to start out with so it lends it self well but the over hanging cap as the door glass tilts in looks cheap. as does the c pillar. I can't help but think of a pick up camper on a El Camino when I see them built that way.
Is anyone building a cumercial glass 300 yet? I think that would help alot with looks. The 300's have short windows to begin with, ad a tall hearse roof to it and they just look shorter. It cant be that hard to make a decent looking hearse out of a car that is already boxy and classy looking to start with.
Josh
Josh
