I'm a first time hearse owner, but this is not by any means by first B-body. Needed a car to come home after someone who didn't know what a brake pedal was destroyed my car in a town five hours away. Luckily I was able to find this near by, and I miss my last b-body and have been quite happy with it so far.
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It's done by Alberter, and is the cheaper of the two conversions they did. No divider, stock wheelbase [it's all after the rear axle]. Came with all the trim for the inside & out, so if I wanted to bring it back to original condition [unlikely] I have everything down to the hubcaps & hubcap tool. However, I couldn't find any of the original paperwork pertaining to the conversion in the car anywhere so all I know about its history is that it was sold through Shields in Atlanta at some point [explains the lack of rust].
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Cosmetically it really needs to have the headliner redone, and the repaint on it was really poorly done. It looks like they decided to make it white by using overspry to paint the vinyl roof, and then they put a layer of filler over the original paint job and then put too thick of a base coat over it. It's spider cracking bad on the hood and near all the chrome trim parts. However I have been going over it with magnets and have not found any obvious hidden holes covered up with filler, so it at least appears to be a solid metal body.
Mechanically the ac is probably in need of work. There is no belt on it, which is a no-no on the 307 [known to cause belt throwing problems and squeal]. I won't mind spending what I did to buy the car to have the AC restored & converted to R13a. My last b-body had an all original working AC and it was the coldest AC I've ever had in a car. The weatherstripping is also bad, like it is on every B-body I've seen in recent years [if anyone knows a source I need it for multiple vehicles] but isn't yet bad enough where I get soaked while driving it in heavy rain.
Gas mileage both highway and city has been better than the last b-body I owned, which wasn't a hearse, and I have more than one set of rims & tires in the back right now [the originals were included with the sale so I could go back to using the original hubcaps if I wanted]. In practical terms its the second most fuel efficient car I've owned.
Is it common for the original window curtains to have shrunk with time? Some of them don't appear to be long enough to snap to the interior door panels as they should. I also don't think the interior has been cleaned since it was still in service.
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It's done by Alberter, and is the cheaper of the two conversions they did. No divider, stock wheelbase [it's all after the rear axle]. Came with all the trim for the inside & out, so if I wanted to bring it back to original condition [unlikely] I have everything down to the hubcaps & hubcap tool. However, I couldn't find any of the original paperwork pertaining to the conversion in the car anywhere so all I know about its history is that it was sold through Shields in Atlanta at some point [explains the lack of rust].
380179_2718648284321_1200423529_33194959_63239236_n.jpg
Cosmetically it really needs to have the headliner redone, and the repaint on it was really poorly done. It looks like they decided to make it white by using overspry to paint the vinyl roof, and then they put a layer of filler over the original paint job and then put too thick of a base coat over it. It's spider cracking bad on the hood and near all the chrome trim parts. However I have been going over it with magnets and have not found any obvious hidden holes covered up with filler, so it at least appears to be a solid metal body.
Mechanically the ac is probably in need of work. There is no belt on it, which is a no-no on the 307 [known to cause belt throwing problems and squeal]. I won't mind spending what I did to buy the car to have the AC restored & converted to R13a. My last b-body had an all original working AC and it was the coldest AC I've ever had in a car. The weatherstripping is also bad, like it is on every B-body I've seen in recent years [if anyone knows a source I need it for multiple vehicles] but isn't yet bad enough where I get soaked while driving it in heavy rain.
Gas mileage both highway and city has been better than the last b-body I owned, which wasn't a hearse, and I have more than one set of rims & tires in the back right now [the originals were included with the sale so I could go back to using the original hubcaps if I wanted]. In practical terms its the second most fuel efficient car I've owned.
Is it common for the original window curtains to have shrunk with time? Some of them don't appear to be long enough to snap to the interior door panels as they should. I also don't think the interior has been cleaned since it was still in service.
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