Does the Honda Odyssey remind you of a hearse?

[Charmonium]

Yes, I'm a morbid POS, but I swear they use the same chassis.

 

[nakedfrog]

What kind of Hearse are you talking about? I'm mostly used to them being some kind of station wagon body.

 

[Charmonium]

What kind of Hearse are you talking about? I'm mostly used to them being some kind of station wagon body.

I don't get out much so I tend not to see many hearses any more. Also, I guess don't travel any of the roads linking funeral homes to cemeteries.

The thing is, if you google honda hearse, the first image seems to be of the Odyssey and rest show the same car with covered back windows and that weird curly-cue they all seem to have.

 

[sdifox]

Nope. They are modified station wagons.

Ronne's final ride was a Caddy.

QE II rode one based on MB E class

LoL Tesla Model 3 Hearse

Model S

Civic hearse

 

[nakedfrog]

If you google "Chrysler Hearse" you can see a Chrysler minivan hearse too. The auto manufacturer isn't specifically making them, more likely they're ordered and then modified to haul bodies around.

 

[Charmonium]

@nakedfrog yeah, like stretch limos I guess. Although I'm not really sure hauling one body and one coffin could be more stressful than hauling half of varsity 'whatever' team.

edit - oh, you mean things like tiedown points, ramp, etc. Those should require too much in the way special mods though

 

[IronWing]

The kids are a lot quieter in the back of the hearse.

 

[Charmonium]

The kids are a lot quieter in the back of the hearse.

Oh my. There are a few levels there, but they're mostly pretty dark. I like to think of myself as a fairly morbid person - helps keep it real, so to say - but I bow to my superiors.

 

[snoopy7548]

Nope, but the HHR does:

 

[Charmonium]

@snoopy7548 If my ride's arockin, it's probably a bad case of pre-ignition.

 

[Red Squirrel]

At a really fast glance maybe, depends on angle you see it I guess. But looking at both side by side they don't really look similar.

Never occurred to me that they were simply converted vehicles though but it kinda makes sense. There is not really enough incentive to make a dedicated hearse car. I think the more classic Cadillac hearses may have been purpose built though.

 

[sdifox]

At a really fast glance maybe, depends on angle you see it I guess. But looking at both side by side they don't really look similar.

Never occurred to me that they were simply converted vehicles though but it kinda makes sense. There is not really enough incentive to make a dedicated hearse car. I think the more classic Cadillac hearses may have been purpose built though.

I think they were all mods, just older cars have longer trunk.

 

[Captante]

That Tesla hearse is almost as unfortunate looking as their "truck" lol.

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

Outside of military and some commercial areas (think airports), there are few dedicated vehicles any more. Recall Checker Motors for example that was huge for a while but eventually died off.

There was a move on for a special purpose police car, but it never got to production.

Carbon Motors Corporation - Wikipedia

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The rear suicide doors were supposed to make it easy to load and unload prisoners.

 

[Meghan54]

Hearses are typically coach-company built, meaning the coach company takes a premanufactured vehicle, like a Caddy, and transforms it into a hearse.

The list of hearse manufacturers in the USA includes:

• Eagle Coach Company
• MK Coach
• Platinum Funeral Coach Company
• K2 Vehicles
• Federal Coach Company
• The S&S Coach Company

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[Captante]

Hearses are typically coach-company built, meaning the coach company takes a premanufactured vehicle, like a Caddy, and transforms it into a hearse.

The list of hearse manufacturers in the USA includes:

• Eagle Coach Company
• MK Coach
• Platinum Funeral Coach Company
• K2 Vehicles
• Federal Coach Company
• The S&S Coach Company

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Correct.... often the same companies that "convert" busses and stretch-limos.