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Car Of The Day: June 6, 2017; Hot Wheels '53 Cadillac Coupe de Fleur
Topic Started: Jun 6 2017, 09:08 PM (309 Views)
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Today's Car Of The Day comes from juantoo3's collection and is Hot Wheels 1953 Cadillac Coupe de Fleur (Flower Car).

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A flower car is a type of vehicle used in the funeral industry, used to carry flowers for the burial service, or sometimes to carry the coffin under a bed of flowers. Built on the same commercial chassis as a hearse, the flower car has half-height rear bodywork on the rear similar to a pickup truck bed.


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The bed contains a liner to hold the flowers, normally built of stainless steel to resist rust. Some flower cars have a raised, flat tonneau cover across the bed at the top, upon which the flowers sit; the center portion sometimes is designed to raise and lower, hydraulically or by hand. If the flower car is designed to carry a casket, it will be stored under the tonneau cover in the space beneath, behind the opening rear gate.


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In the early years of the automobile, open-topped luxury cars were used for this purpose, but as enclosed vehicles became the norm, specially built vehicles began to be used for this purpose from approximately the 1930s onward. Not every funeral provider owned a flower car; they were a luxury item offered as an extra-cost option for extravagant funerals. The quantities built were low; it is estimated that fewer than a dozen were built each year by each coachbuilder in the funeral market.


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Flower cars are still built and used, but in lesser numbers than previously. Old flower cars are considered collectible due to their rarity, especially by collectors of hearses and other "professional cars".


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For more info, see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flower_car

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As hearses go, Flower Cars are some of my favorites. It is easy to want to call them Cadillac El Caminos or something similar, but they are truly purpose built vehicles. Open hearses made with Cadillac, Lincoln, and Packard chassis are most common, some dating well back into the 1930s.

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:thumbup: Go Pro Cars! Gotta luv them Caddyminos!
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Flower power!
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pjedsel
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One of the more interesting models Hot Wheels has made - would be neat to release this in black with flowers with a hearse to go with it, would make for a neat two piece set. :lol:
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very nice piece.
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pjedsel
Jun 7 2017, 12:13 PM
would be neat to release this in black with flowers with a hearse to go with it, would make for a neat two piece set. :lol:
^^^^^This. They would have to do it right though. White walls and no garish flames, stripes or anything.
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a very glossy black would be the perfect.
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