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Hi everybody,
I found this board with the website of the Denver Hearse Association ( www.hearseclub.com ) and i asked Zachary to register me here.
So, A friend and I are european hearse owner's based in France and Belgium.
I think that I could be great to talk with other hearse owners because there is no hearse club here in France or Belgium. So we will create our soon.
I think it will be great to make a kind of twinning between europe and USA concerning the great US's hearses.
So, let's start with my first purchase : a 1970 plymouth fury hearse that I bought in 2002.
Ther is a small website here : http://www.membres.lycos.fr/furyhearse/
it was made by my friend who discovered it and sold me it because he couldn't keep it.
This hearse was used in Belgium for burials and was bought by a tavern owner's in the 90's and converted in a simple SW.
My friend purchase it and started to rebuild it, then I purchase it again and continued the restauration.
This was the photograph that was given to me when I bought it
The following photographs shows it state when my friend starts to restaure it :
The motor before and after :
The most of the work must be done on the body : the rear bumper was "dead" and the under of the car isn't in very goog shape but not dead. The is small holes in the body.
up to now, the car is awaiting for a complete body rebuild but i can't do it because it's very expensive. so i'm waiting to have a full time job !
the images are quite big so i just put the link :
http://img112.imageshack.us/img112/7725/dscf0075ro7.jpg
http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/126/dscf0073oi4.jpg
Here there is the Plymouth in front of an european ( european in the scale because it's a Toyota Yaris) car :
http://img183.imageshack.us/img183/1...2002063qx5.jpg
I bought with it an american casket and all the lamps that goes on the car.
The Plymouth is now parked here :
It's on the right under the cover.
Yes ! i will show you the dodge on the left !
No ! the newport has been sold because we can't repair it.
I must tell you how lucky you are to have so great cars !
There is many many more cars to come, we have and know around 8 hearses here. Some will be destroyed because in europe hearse are quite scaring for the other people ( they don't want to own a hearse ) or used for something else : one hearse will become an advert. I will make a diffrent topic for each.
As you can see, ther is no major transformation on this plymouth :this is a common SW that has been converted into a hearse.
They removed the back bench, put 2 lamps next to the rear windows and curtains fixed to the inside roof.
They also putt chromium-plated metal bars in the top of the car, on the doors and the rear side, to get a better view and to be hold when people walk next to the car during a burial.
such SW's are often used as hearse in Belgium ( in france the hearse are awful !! if you want i can show you some ) and converted like this ( you will se another exemple with the dodge polara ). There is also cadillac but they are specialized in hearse, and i think that you can recognize the transformation.
I found this board with the website of the Denver Hearse Association ( www.hearseclub.com ) and i asked Zachary to register me here.
So, A friend and I are european hearse owner's based in France and Belgium.
I think that I could be great to talk with other hearse owners because there is no hearse club here in France or Belgium. So we will create our soon.
I think it will be great to make a kind of twinning between europe and USA concerning the great US's hearses.
So, let's start with my first purchase : a 1970 plymouth fury hearse that I bought in 2002.
Ther is a small website here : http://www.membres.lycos.fr/furyhearse/
it was made by my friend who discovered it and sold me it because he couldn't keep it.
This hearse was used in Belgium for burials and was bought by a tavern owner's in the 90's and converted in a simple SW.
My friend purchase it and started to rebuild it, then I purchase it again and continued the restauration.
This was the photograph that was given to me when I bought it
The following photographs shows it state when my friend starts to restaure it :
The motor before and after :
The most of the work must be done on the body : the rear bumper was "dead" and the under of the car isn't in very goog shape but not dead. The is small holes in the body.
up to now, the car is awaiting for a complete body rebuild but i can't do it because it's very expensive. so i'm waiting to have a full time job !
the images are quite big so i just put the link :http://img112.imageshack.us/img112/7725/dscf0075ro7.jpg
http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/126/dscf0073oi4.jpg
Here there is the Plymouth in front of an european ( european in the scale because it's a Toyota Yaris) car :
http://img183.imageshack.us/img183/1...2002063qx5.jpg
I bought with it an american casket and all the lamps that goes on the car.
The Plymouth is now parked here :
It's on the right under the cover.
Yes ! i will show you the dodge on the left !
No ! the newport has been sold because we can't repair it.
I must tell you how lucky you are to have so great cars !
There is many many more cars to come, we have and know around 8 hearses here. Some will be destroyed because in europe hearse are quite scaring for the other people ( they don't want to own a hearse ) or used for something else : one hearse will become an advert. I will make a diffrent topic for each.
As you can see, ther is no major transformation on this plymouth :this is a common SW that has been converted into a hearse.
They removed the back bench, put 2 lamps next to the rear windows and curtains fixed to the inside roof.
They also putt chromium-plated metal bars in the top of the car, on the doors and the rear side, to get a better view and to be hold when people walk next to the car during a burial.
such SW's are often used as hearse in Belgium ( in france the hearse are awful !! if you want i can show you some ) and converted like this ( you will se another exemple with the dodge polara ). There is also cadillac but they are specialized in hearse, and i think that you can recognize the transformation.
) i use to choose "eco shipping" 
on the roof. 
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