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The (new) Cadillac Database©
Professional Cars

on
Cadillac Chassis

1962 - 1964

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1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909
1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919
1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929
1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939
1940 1941 1942

WW2 years

1946 1947 1948 1949
1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959
1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969
1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979
1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989
1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999-up

 


1962


Commercial car chassis for 1962

 

Eureka (USA) Various commercial cars for the ambulance and funeral trades, like the examples below:


The Landau, side-servicing funeral car


The Combination limousine


The standard ambulance


Eureka "Hi-Boy" ambulance (67" o.a. height)

Miller-Meteor (USA)  Various commercial vehicles on the Cadillac commercial chassis including ambulances, hearses and flower cars similar to the model below. Professional car enthusiast, Bernie de Winter, has been of great help identifying some of the "unknowns" in these pages; I just hope I put the corrections in the right places.


Miller-Meteor combination hearse-ambulance

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This beautiful survivor was offered for sale on Ebay in Dec., 2007
[ Photos:  Internet ]


Possibly a Miller Meteor survivor ... in restorable condition

 

S&S (Hess & Eisenhardt) (USA)  Various commercial vehicles on the Cadillac commercial chassis including ambulances, hearses and flower cars similar to the model below


The Superline Victoria

    
(Left) The Superline Park Row (combination); (right) The Superline Park Way (ambulance)

 

Superior (USA) Various commercial cars for the funeral and ambulance trades; a typical example is shown below:


Superior Crown Royale Combination Car for 1962


[ Photo:  Internet, 2012 ]

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A survivor located on the Internet; the car has been properly identified
by Bernie De Winter as a Superior Sovereign limousine combination coach

 

(Unidentified) (USA)  Combination car

 

 

1963

Cadillac (USA)  These creations on the Cadillac commercial chassis are "nothing" cars drawn by the company to include most elements of all commercial cars by their various builders, to avoid  insulting any one of them. Such "combination" cars were used in Cadillac's commercial car catalogs and ad campaigns.

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Eureka  (USA) Miscellaneous commercial vehicles such as ambulances, hearses and flower cars [like the model below:

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Eureka Landau

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Two rear views of a Eureka hearse model; my friend Sarah, from Cleveland, OH,
tells me that this 2-tome survivor is owned by PCS member Darlene, of Chicago, IL

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Thanks to Bernie De Winter for identifying
this one as a Eureka limousine combination

 

Köng, W.E. (Switzerland) ambulance {HW collection***}. Köng built similar ambulance bodies on the 1959 and 1960 chassis [see above].

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Poor photo (left) is from video clip I took in August 1984 on the occasion of the first International Cadillac Meet
I organized in Geneva, Switzerland;  the 1959 Köng ambulance also was present (behind the '63 model in that photo)

 

Miller-Meteor (USA)  Various commercial vehicles on the Cadillac commercial chassis including ambulances, hearses and flower cars similar to the model below. Professional car enthusiast, Bernie de Winter, has been of great help identifying some of the "unknowns" in these pages; I just hope I put the corrections in the right places.

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Left: Miller Meteor Paramount landau (first year for this model, made through 1969)

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This Classic limousine combination survivor (2nd year of production)
This survivor was offered for sale, in the mid-seventies, for $995!


I'm guessing that this survivor is one of the Miller-Meteor creations


This one looks like it has 1959 Cadillac tail-light lenses for emergency roof lights!

 

S&S (Hess & Eisenhardt) (USA)  Various commercial vehicles on the Cadillac commercial chassis including ambulances, hearses and flower cars similar to the model below

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Catalog illustration (left) and  S&S Park Row combination coach survivor (right)

 

Superior (USA)  Various commercial vehicles on the Cadillac commercial chassis including ambulances, hearses and flower cars similar to the model below

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Superior Sovereign landaulet, 3-way hearse

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The Superior 48"-inch Royale rescue ambulance that sold for $11,227; the beautiful
survivor at left belongs to Dave, a PCS member from Belmar, NJ [thanks for the tip, Sarah];
the survivor at the right has not yet been identified


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Superior Royale 42" ambulance

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Superior flower car  / hearse survivor; one of 28 built in 1963; features include "suicide doors", flat top rear visor
fiberglass roof, hydraulic stainless drop panel on the rear deck and high profile rear bed/rear door to accommodate a casket
[ Photos:  CLC Forum, courtesy David Link ]

 

[Unknown, USA] Ugly, stretched 6-wheel station wagon with chopped roof and tinted glass all round. Definitely a Mafia staff car! [photos] A very similar car was built on the 1967 Cadillac chassis.

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Versteegen (Netherlands) Cadillac aficionado, Jo Thewissen of Holland sent me in December 1999 a series of photos of custom Cadillac ambulances and hearses built in the forties, fifties and sixties, built by this relatively unknown Dutch coach-builder.  The photo below is typical of that coach-builder's styling.   Thanks for the pics and the information, Jo.

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1964

Carrosserie Gummarus Docx (Belgium) custom hearse, conversion from De Ville convertible.  The current owner, Christophe Barat, a friend and Cadillac enthusiast from France, wrote: Here's a photo of a car [more like the remains of a car] for your collection; I liked the story so much that I bought the wreck, even though there's nothing much I can do with it. This De Ville convertible was sold new, in Belgium, in 1964. In 1970 kit was acquired by a Belgian funeral home that had it converted to a hearse (at considerable expense); a roof was added to the car, as also a hatchback rear door made up from the trunk lid.  The rear body was cut and welded to form a flat floor. The hearse was used for about 15 years in Belgium then sold  (through the classifieds) to a Frenchman who decided to convert it back to its original design. He searched all over Europe and the USA for the required parts   including the entire rear body which he had welded back on the car. Then he did nothing more. The "car" was left unattended for 10 years. He tired of looking at it and decided to sell it. One of me friends bought it with the intention of parting it out.  I heard about the story and decided to buy the lot. The logo of the funeral home is still visible on the doors. What am I going to do with this basket case (ha-ha!) For the time being it is just laying in the back of my hangar.  I thought you would be interested in this story. If you think it might interest readers of the Self-Starter, let me know and I'll ask you to do the translation [done. Christophe!]   Christophe sent these two photos; the B&W one is from a Xerox copy of a classified as in 1984, at the time the previous French collector bought it. This car was first registered in Belgium on January 10, 1964. It was sold April 7, 1970 for 155.250BFr [circa $3,000] and converted to a hearse by September 9, 1970 at a cost of   94.963BFr [circa $1900].  The prior French owner bought it on January 18, 1984 after seeing it in a classified ad; he acquired a convertible parts car and began re-conversion work in September 1985.  My friend, Christophe, bought the "car" in March, 2002.

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Left: the only known photo of the car (and a poor one) when it was used as a hearse
Right: the remains of what was once a '64 De Ville convertible, then a hearse, then again a convertible
[ Photos:  courtesy Christophe Barat, France - owner ]

Derham (USA) One of the last jobs done by the Rosemont-based company of Pennsylvania was this armored, 1964 Cadillac "Series 75" limousine.  The company records do not show who the client was.

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Note the ugly, but bullet-proof windshield treatment
[ Photo: Derham Archives - CCCA Museum ]

Eureka (USA) various ambulances, hearses and flower cars (selection below)

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A survivor found on the Internet


Eureka 3-way Landau hearse


Eureka rear-way limousine hearse


Eureka Hi-Boy ambulance

 

Miller-Meteor (USA) various ambulances, hearses and flower cars (selection below)

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Classic limousine combination coach

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The tragedy of President Kennedy's assassination in Dallas, TX, on November 22, 1963, will remain forever fresh in the public consciousness.
This the Miller Meteor "Duplex" model (body #1) that drove deceased President Kennedy from Parkland Memorial Hospital to Air Force One
at Love Field. Originally built for show at the National Funeral Home Directors Association Convention, held in Dallas in October 1963,
the O'Neal funeral home in Dallas took delivery of the vehicle following the show.   It is car #1 of the 1964 Miller-Meteor production
[ Photos:  Internet ]


Miller Meteor Paramount Landau hearse

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Above two rows: the Classic style limousine ambulances
Immediately above, a survivor found on the Internet


Miller-Meteor 42-inch ambulance


Embassy flower car with 22.5" deck height ( available also with a deck height of 25.5",
the latter being able to accommodate a casket in the rear compartment, below the deck)

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Classic 42" headroom ambulance

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Left:  Classic limousine; right: Landau Traditional with 3-way table

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Embassy flower car with 22.5" deck height
[ Photos:  Internet, 4/2000 ]


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The owner of this superb survivor says he prefers the 1961 Cadillac wheel covers to those issued in 1963 and 1964

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Classic limousine combination with removable landau panels

 

Hess & Eisenhardt (USA) Custom Series 75 limousine for Mrs. Marjorie Merriweather Post, heiress to the Post cereal empire [SS 5/2001, pp.12-13].  H&E had tried their hand already at a "Hi-Top" limousine like this one in 1960, when they built one for Mrs. Du Pont of the Du Pont de Nemours chemicals empire. A modification like this almost doubled the cost of the regular Series 75 limousine, from $13,026 to $26,000! I find the rear roof design downright ugly

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In addition to the roof modification, the car has also non-original front bumper guards
[Photo:  courtesy Frank del Monte, Jr. and the CLC Self Starter]

 

S&S [Hess & Eisenhardt] (USA) various ambulances, hearses and flower cars (selection below)

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Left: Park Hill (with padded top); right: Park Row (with plain painted roof)

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Victoria landau


Victoria landau survivor

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This surviving Park Row model looks like it needs a new front bumper


S&S Hi-Boy

 

Superior (USA) hearse, SSA92, p.34


Selection of "Superior" professional cars for 1964

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Superior Crown Royale landaulet with 3-way table

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Beautiful Crown Royale survivor

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This fine Crown Sovereign survivor belongs to Deb Rawaillot
who kindly supplied the photo; it was delivered originally to the

REHR-Kaiser funeral home in Kankakee, IL, on July 10, 1964;
the base price of this model at the time  was $12,020;
the car features Lev-L-Matic


Crown Sovereign landau hearse


Possibly the same model as above, despite slight changes in decorative chrome accents
[ Photo: Internet ]


Royale limousine hearse

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Superior Rescuer high-top ambulance survivor on the Internet


Superior flower car
[Superior used the same, basic "Professional Car" styling and engineering
on all their vehicles, from 1957 to 1964, although it evolved during that time frame,
with major styling differences noticeable particularly in 1959, 1961 and 1963]

 

[Unknown, USA?] The lines of this survivor are similar to those of the Superior combination hearse-lmousine; but, in doubt, let's call it an "unknown".

[Unknown, USA?] Custom  Series 75 limousine with padded top and small rear window ŕ la Derham. Fleetwood offered a car like this in 1965; it featured imitation landau cars on the rear quarter panels

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[Unknown, USA] chopped-top Cadillac ambulance

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Enthusiast, Bernie De Winter says: obviously it's a photo that’s been modified
using a computer program, and the car is an S&S
Park Row or Park Hill. It’s hard
to tell if it had a padded top at one time from that photo, but it’s obvious that cutting
a commercial windshield would be next to impossible without breaking it

 

Unknown, USA] Custom Series 75 limousine with Derham-type, leather-covered roof; roofline similar to 1960 H&E limousine described above [tall and angular]. Photo McC p.355

 

 

Return to The (New) Cadillac Database© Index Page
or go to the "Dream cars" section for 1962-64
or select "Professional Cars" years from the table below

 

Pick one   >

1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909
1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919
1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929
1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939
1940 1941 1942

WW2 years

1946 1947 1948 1949
1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959
1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969
1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979
1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989
1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999-up

 

© 1998, Yann Saunders [aka Mr. Cadillac] and the Cadillac-LaSalle Club, Inc.
[ Background image:  1961 Crown Sovereign funeral car by Superior Coach Corporation ]