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| I a Funeral Director and have been looking for something like this for a long time. It’s very solid and in good condition other than the paint is not great. I’m looking forwarded to finding out as much as I can on this car. Thank you.
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Location: Lower Mainland BC | Cartoon6pk - 2019-10-06 4:27 PM
Wish I could figure out how to add pictures.
Welcome to the forum.
Regarding posting photos, two things:
1. No jpegs from Apple iPhones. Has to be .jpg (no "e")
2. Must be sized to be < 250 kB. 1024 x 768 works.
For more details, read this:
http://www.forwardlook.net/forums/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=64340&...
You will want to start your own new thread in the Members Rides sub-forum:
http://www.forwardlook.net/forums/forums/forum-view.asp?fid=28
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Location: The Mile High City | Welcome to the forums! Can't wait to see the images! |
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Location: Frederick, MD | I've had great luck using shrinkpictures.com to resize my photos for posting |
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Location: Parts Unknown | What model is it built on ?
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Location: Pacific Northwest | My guess.
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Location: So. Cal | Yeah, these are usually made from Firesweeps. |
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Location: The Bat Cave, Fairborn, OH | If you go to the National DeSoto Club forum/group on Facebook, there are some more shots of this fine ambulance/herse combination. I attach a few here for the faithful as well. I don't know where it's been hidng for the last 60 years, but it seems to have been well cared for.
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Attachments ---------------- 1958 DeSoto Hearse -1.jpg (424KB - 211 downloads) 1958 DeSoto Hearse -2.jpg (215KB - 223 downloads) 1958 DeSoto Hearse -5.jpg (190KB - 181 downloads) 1958 DeSoto Hearse -8.JPG (46KB - 206 downloads)
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Location: Lower Mainland BC | Powerflite - 2019-10-07 4:25 PM
Yeah, these are usually made from Firesweeps.
Apparently you are correct.
Is that because all the 57-59 Wagons were based on the same 122" Dodge chassis regardless of Plymouth, Dodge, Desoto or Chrysler and since the Firesweeps were based on the Dodge chassis, it was a no brainer to work from a 58 Desoto Firesweep wagon to make this ambulance/hearse ??
Barnett Coach Works:
http://www.coachbuilt.com/bui/b/barnette/barnette.htm
Edited by 56D500boy 2019-10-08 11:19 PM
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Location: So. Cal | I think it was just because they were cheaper than the full sized versions. |
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Location: Ramona, CA | Note that this was built from a sedan and not a wagon. You can see that the fins are the sedan fins that continue into the doors.
Edited by NicksGarage 2019-10-09 11:39 AM
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Location: Lower Mainland BC | NicksGarage - 2019-10-09 8:37 AM
Note that this was built from a sedan and not a wagon. You can see that the fins are the sedan fins that continue into the doors.
Hmm...Good catch. I was looking at the "C" pillar and noticed that it wasn't a wagon "C" pillar.
*BUT* now that you've pointed out the fin extension, it seems like the hearse's goes almost the front door, like a Fireflite's, longer than the extension of the Firesweep. If we knew the wheelbase, we would know what they started with.
Edited by 56D500boy 2019-10-09 11:59 AM
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