Micro-Meet HEARSE HUNTING photo

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Darren Bedford

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Before we had even seen Tony's hearse hunting presentation, the day before actually, I was doing some hearse hunting myself !

This was in Flushing MI on Main Street.

Digger and I were going to a model shop a block away from this funeral home and noticed the procession was about to leave.

I guess this is my first hearse hunting photo !!!

Enjoy,
Darren
 

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Well done, Darren! Welcome to the EFHHH (Exalted Fraternity Of Happy Hearse Hunters).....you're learning.

Don't think much of their lead car. A truck! It takes away from the dignity of the Cadillac funeral coach behind it. - Walt
 
How interesting that you spotted this, Darren. My Dad is the driver of that very hearse.

Lots of local firms here are using vans as lead vehicles, but most are GM or Chrysler mini-vans rather than full-size.
 
Way to go, Darren!

Hearse hunting is very addictive and there's no treatment! Best way to handle it is to keep on hunting.

Isn't that the funeral home with a '59 S&S stashed in the back garage? :D
 
That van sure is ugly.

The coach is rented from Tom Boaz's Preferred Livery Service and indeed Mr. Ross, Sr. is usually the driver. This firm once had an old carved panel in the garage but that is long gone. Nothing there now. I will just never be able to use one of those trucks as a lead car. It looks awful. For now it will be the Lucerne and who knows, since they don't make full sized cars anymore maybe a Volkswagen is next.
 
Brad Ross said:
Lots of local firms here are using vans as lead vehicles, but most are GM or Chrysler mini-vans rather than full-size.
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At least there isn't an amber beacon or light bar on the coach - talk about undignified!

Is this van the flower car, as well?
 
Steve Loftin said:
At least there isn't an amber beacon or light bar on the coach - talk about undignified!

Is this van the flower car, as well?
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Appears as if the van is the lead vehicle and used as the flower van too after seeing an amber beacon on top.

It's funny how in the funeral business we have so many different ways of leading a funeral out. Some use a lead car then hearse while others use the heasre as the lead car. I guess there is no right or wrong way of doing it but nothing like a funeral cortage lined up like this:

1. Lead car with Funeral Director and minister
2. Flower Car
3. Pallbearers Car
4. Hearse
5. Family Limo


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Funeral

I was at a Funeral for a Prominent Ems Instructor/Inspector. I was asked to bring the 71 Lifeliner. The Hearse pulled up in front of me and then all the EMS units followed behind me then the Family and friends etc as We Left the church all of the Ambulances had their Emergency Lights activated. As We pulled into the Cemetery a 6 year old Boy watching the Hearse pull in and 20+ Ambulances points at The Ambulances with their lights on pulling into a cemetery


Russ
 
I'm not in the funeral service, but I have learned alot about in this club, for god sakes put a black grand marquis out front, anything is better than a van that looks like it should be at your house to repair your furnace.
 
Great spot there Darren!

I was wondering of the lead van was actually used as the "limousine" for the family. More for flowers and pall bearers from what I get from the posts. It really does take away from the hearse since it is so much taller and more prominent.

@ Russ
The ambulance procession is familiar to me also. My uncle (an active emt/ambulance driver and volunteer fireman) was laid to rest about a year ago now and they actually used the ambulance that he used to drive to transport him. Portable rollers were put in the back and that is how he went out... Just like he would have been seen in life... in an ambulance. His procession had a few ambulances, but it was comprised mostly of fire trucks. About 15 of the local stations sent trucks to follow the lead "hearse".
 
We in ontario have had several EMS funerals,a unit from the deceased medics service will follow the coach with purple bunting angled down from the front corners to a point on the hood,and emergency lighs are draped in purple,Walt will probably shoot me but last week in Kitchener the migrant workers who were killed in the tragic collision at Hamstead Ont.had a memorial service,they were brought to the church in procession by 6 hearses,had I known sooner I would have got pictures,
 
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