I recently purchased a car that i may hang onto. I want to find out as much as i can about it before deciding to let it go. I have VIN and title I also have where it was surviced which was a coach sales place in Ill. All tag # I have. I want to find out whether it was originally ordered as a ambulance and had the removable landau's added later or if this was an older combo. Any help would be great.
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So what is it you own? My guess, if the Landau Panels are a good fit, they are most likely original to that year and coach builder, and possibly your car. As Landau bars have come to represent funeral coaches since after WW2, removable panels with landau bars were often made available for combination coaches. In the 1950's even high top full time ambulances could be ordered as landau, but I can't ever recall a full time landau ambulance that has been built after 1959.
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I did find out that they originally came with them. But wouldnt they have put rollers in? It's a 70 caddy. It has the small windows in the rear on each side. The 2 jump seats face each other on the passenger side. In the Pro cars book(one with white hearse on cover) there is a 65 on page 96 that looks like it. thanks
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Letcherous Opportunist
- Jun 2007
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OWN:
1961 Cadillac M+M Landau Endloader w/ X-Tend table
1989 Chevrolet (unknown) Suburban Landau Endloader
OWNED:
1961 Cadillac Superior Limo Style Endloader
1979 Cadillac Superior Landau Endloader
1980 Cadillac S&S Landau Endloader
1981 Cadillac S&S Landau Endloader
WANTED:
1961 Cadillac S&S Landau Endloader
1961 Cadillac Eureka Landau Endloader
1961 Cadillac Superior Landau Endloader
Some combinations came with a removeable "casket rack" instead of built-in rollers... Pictures and numbers from the coachbuilder plate would be a great help to us in helping you...
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Every once & a while one shows up on ebay. You may have better luck placing a wanted ad on the bigger hearse/ambulance websites though.
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"Otto Parts" here on NHAA is selling some parts... and there's a pic of a casket rack in one of his pix. It's not listed for sale but at least you can see what one looks like. Actually there's a name for the rack... but I can't remember what they call them. If you search "casket rack" it comes up with a shelving system for funeral homes to keep caskets in-stock & stacked up @ their facility.
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