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Attila Bethlenfalvy

Recent Flickr uploads, (incorrectly) labeled as Rolls Royce. They'd definitely draw stares.

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Personally, I think they are incredibly tacky and a automotive disaster.

Even the 2013 look good to these in my opinion.

They look like a pimp-mobile or drug dealers car. Too flashy for me.

Darren
 
yes looks like a monster garage challenge. build a Hears from parts out of a JC Whitney catalogue. or maybe the accesery isle at pep boys
 
Mike,they have a tradition of releasing balloons after the burial,another tradition was to clean the house the funeral was held at,right after the burial,and it's bad luck to take leftovers home from the after service reception.
 
what kind of car would they use as a base for one of those "things" ?

It seems to me everyone seems to be having a party and not mourning during the Funeral ?
 
Darren Bedford said:
They look like a pimp-mobile or drug dealers car. Too flashy for me.

Darren
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Being from where they are they may be drug dealers!

Tacky but what makes them worse is they couldnt even match the rims on the wheels with the sidemounts. Ive seen lots of hot rods like that and it looks so wrong.
 
Mike Boyer said:
what kind of car would they use as a base for one of those "things" ?

It seems to me everyone seems to be having a party and not mourning during the Funeral ?
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Alot of societys have partys celebrating the life of the deceased, and their next journey, not feel sad they are gone.
 
Call me a silly fool, I don't think they look that bad when comparred to some of the funeral vehicles used in some countries. With a little work, they could be nice looking.
 
Bill Carlin said:
Call me a silly fool, I don't think they look that bad when comparred to some of the funeral vehicles used in some countries. With a little work, they could be nice looking.
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I was thinking the same thing....... to them I bet they look Classy, the same way we think our older coaches look classy.

I think they have a different outlook on funeral's thats why they go all out.

I don't think its any different then having a P.T. Cruiser redone as a Funeral Coach.

I bet a lot of other country's look at our (North American) coaches and think "WOW thats different" !
 
Mike Boyer said:
I bet a lot of other country's look at our (North American) coaches and think "WOW thats different" !
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This is true. When going to the Bell Block Party in Indiana several years ago we met a girl at a gas station from Austraila or someplace like that, and she wanted to talk to me about my hearse, she did not understand why we close off our cars so much so you cant see the casket. I told her we live in a out of sight out of mind society and we try to hid things like this from the public. She was just dumbfounded and couldnt believe we "treat our dead so poorly by hiding them away like we are ashaimed of them". She made a great point, I really dont understand it either.
 
I don't think its right to say we are hiding our dead. If that were the case, they'd be going to the cemetery in an unmarked van. Remember that the horse-drawn-style ornately-carved early hearses, which usually had windows inside the wooden drapes, gave way to the limousine style. The limousine style then evolved into the landau. I'm sure someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but my memory wants to say that the modern landau style was introduced in 1938 by S&S. That's a long time before we started "hiding our dead". And of course, the limousine style and the landau were sold side by side for several more decades before the landau became pretty much the universally accepted funeral coach style.

The reason for the landau style being introduced was pretty simple. From a styling standpoint, the limousine style funeral coach had become difficult to tell apart from the large sedans of the era. The landau introduced a simple distinction, so that people knew they were seeing a funeral coach.

So quite the opposite of hiding our dead. The landau came about to call attention to the fact that you were seeing a car carrying the deceased.
 
I would like to see a JEEPNEY style car. That would make sense, especially to the ones that were stationed or visited there while in the military:myopinion:
 
Patrick J. Martin said:
I don't think its right to say we are hiding our dead. If that were the case, they'd be going to the cemetery in an unmarked van. Remember that the horse-drawn-style ornately-carved early hearses, which usually had windows inside the wooden drapes, gave way to the limousine style. The limousine style then evolved into the landau. I'm sure someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but my memory wants to say that the modern landau style was introduced in 1938 by S&S. That's a long time before we started "hiding our dead". And of course, the limousine style and the landau were sold side by side for several more decades before the landau became pretty much the universally accepted funeral coach style.

The reason for the landau style being introduced was pretty simple. From a styling standpoint, the limousine style funeral coach had become difficult to tell apart from the large sedans of the era. The landau introduced a simple distinction, so that people knew they were seeing a funeral coach.

So quite the opposite of hiding our dead. The landau came about to call attention to the fact that you were seeing a car carrying the deceased.
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I know the was introduced in 1938 and it is the most popular, as you said it was invented because funeral directors were getting tired of the hearse blending in and looking lie the big passenger cars of the day, and I agree some horse drawns were completly covered with no windows, but think about how much our society really does try to hide them though, as much as possible. When they die we wisk them off to a funeral home and magically a few days later we have the funeral. No more long at home personal days with the deceased. I know of funeral homes that have the body in a seperate room, hidden in the corner AWAY from where the service takes place because they feel the body makes people uncomfortable. I know of funeral homes that after the service while you go to your car they load the hearse, that is still in the garage, and then bring it out after its loaded so the public does not have to see the casket. Ive seen many funeral homes that have the drapes fully closed to hide the casket even more, And Yes, I do know funeral homes that use unmarked suvs as hearses. And at car shows, we have heard many times parents telling their kids to stay away from that car its a evil bad car, and it should never be seen because of the horrible reason they exist.. So yes, we are trying to hide the fact that people die and try to keep it hid as much as we can.
 
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