Just missed Halloween

[mario]

1963 cadillac hearse - cars & trucks - by dealer - vehicle...

Selling 1963 hearse clean title runs and drives will need a head gasket but still drives. It is...

sfbay.craigslist.org

Ciao,
Mario

 

[48Austin]

Fins and tail lights make it a '64.

 

[Caddylackn]

Rats, the ad is pulled before I even got to look at it.

It's usually the other way around, the '64 hearse could have '63 tail lights and bumpers on it. They started with a '63 commercial chassis and body made sometime in '63, then sent it to the private coach builders (Superior or Miller Meteor) where they make it a hearse. That could take 6 months or so depending on how many orders they have, so by the time they are finished, it is already 1964, so they just call it a '64 hearse since it is technically brand new and finished in '64.

 

[48Austin]

I have a '64 commercial. And have owned a '63 coupe. The tail lights and fins are different. '64 '63 Tail lights are flat and fins are bigger. So which makes that car a '64.

 

[48Austin]

'63 commercial . '64 commercial . The white car is THE car that took JFK to the funneral home. Sold for 1.5 mil. on ebay.

 

[48Austin]

I have seen '63's with '62 ass ends. but never the other way around. Maybe couldn't tool up fast enough for the new year. But commercials like you said took a long time to build. But seeing a commercial with the previous years ass and roof is not all that uncommon. Like seeing a commercial is all that common any way. With a production run of 2 to 3 thousand units per year. Including combo's and ambulances for all coach builders.