1960 Buick Flxible Buick Flxette.

[60Buick]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/190827524248?item=190827524248&viewitem=&vxp=mtr

selling the coaches

[60Crown]

Description looks great. More thought went into that than most eBay vehicle ads.

Just a head's up, your Photobucket link is set on private and not viewable. May want to adjust that.

[60Buick]

Done, Thanks

[LMS]

Selling the ambulance?

[60Buick]

maybe later. that will be the last to go if i sell it.

[60Crown]

Richard if pass me along build plate data Tom McPherson has offered to provide where your Flxibles served originally.

[60Buick]

Will the vin work?

[60Crown]

No. Has to be Flxible body number. Tom McPherson provided the following for your auction coach~

There were only seven Flxette landaulets built and sold. These went to:

1. H.W. Jenkins & Son - Baltimore, Md. - Flxible body #1019
2. Turner & Porter Ltd. - Toronto, Canada - Flxible body #1047
3. Arthur Phillips - Inroton, Ohio - Flxible body #1054
4. Detroit Undertaking Service - Detroit, Mich. - Flxible body #1056
5. Fisher Funeral Home - Harrisburg, Pa. - Flxible body #1077
6. H.O. Stockert - Flatwoods, W.Va. - Flxible body #1081
7. G. H. Busch & Sons - Cleveland, Ohio - Flxible body #1082 (panoramic landau)

[60Buick]

Ambulance

18094

Hearse

18101

Flxette

1077

Can he tell more how many of the premier ambulance and premier hearses we built?

Also I got am email from someone who says she also has a60 flxette landau. She is going to send me a picture

[60Crown]

From Tom McPherson:

Ambulance

18094 - H.R. Snyder Van Nuys, Ca. Delivered 2/17/60
Motor #4G-1014010

Hearse

18101 - Rose Manor Funeral Service Richmond, Ca. Delivered 4/7/60
Motor #4G-1038248
Flxette

1077 - Fisher Funeral Home Harrisburg, Penn. Delivered 7/6/60
Motor #4G-1063067

The Premier Ambulance (FB63-60) was one of two delivered to Snyder - the other was body #18095 - and was sold to the customer (Snyder) by H.V. Whithorne & Company of Tarzana, California. Both units were delivered together on the 17th of February, 1960. The hearse (model FB62-60) was also sold and delivered by Whithorne. Hope that this is of some interest/use to the owner and tells me that on page 48 (lower left) in TPC issue #148 there is a photograph of the two Snyder cars that were taken at the Flxible plant prior to their delivery to California. How neat is it that one of thee cars has survived?

With regard to production statistics for the 1960 Premier models, these were:

Funeral coach - 11
Combination car - 65
Ambulance - 12
Total Premiers - 88

There were 7 landau funeral cars and 1 high-headroom ambulance produced in the Premier series for 1960


If you happen to have other Flxible body numbers from your past coaches he can supply the same. Flxible is the ONE coach company that Tom and Walt have a complete set of records for.

[60Buick]

Would you mind getting the breakdown on the 110 flxettes built. How many combos hearse ect. I am trying to find the number off the combo I had.

[60Crown]

Will look in Flxible book later. Pretty certain that breakdown is located near the end.

[60Buick]

got the book. it is not.

[Ambulanced]

According to the article in The Professional Car # 148, the breakdown in Flxette production for 1960 is: 12 Funeral Coaches, 91 Combinations Cars, 8 Ambulances, 2 Service Cars. 113 cars total of which 7 were Landau style.

[60Buick]

There is a picture in that issue of two ambulances in front of the flxible factory bound hesded to snyder.can you post it please.