21 foot, 12-Passenger Station Wagon (Mar, 1954)
While it makes a certain sense for the president of a company that makes hearses to drive a station wagon I really wish he’d drove a tricked out hearse.
There’s Lots of Station Wagon in this 21-foot, 12-passenger job in which rear-seat occupants ride sitting backwards. Seats and walls are covered with two-tone leather. The carpeting is inch-thick, turquoise wool chenille. The car is air-conditioned, and recessed in one wall is a completely fitted beverage cabinet.
The chassis and 180-horsepower motor are by Packard. The super de luxe body and interior are by the Henney Motor Co., Freeport, Ill., custom-car builders and the biggest makers of hearses in the U.S.
The company’s president, C. Russell Feldmann, had the king-size buggy built for his personal use and for advertising. Want one?
“12 yards long, 2 lanes wide, 65 tons of American pride!”
Two things to not put on a hearse.
1) Suicide doors.
2) A roof rack.
@ Toronto – A roof rack could be good, you could get a twofer.
What a car! It’d be like driving a constant-thrust spaceship to work. I’d spend half my commute accelerating up to speed at a snail’s pace, and the next half decelerating on what must be drum brakes far too small to really stop all that weight.