where funeral cars retire by Richardphotos

Photography • Transportation • posted on Mar 13, 2010

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I went to Honest John's vintage Cadillac parts the other day near Justin, Texas. he was kind enough to allow me to walk around the huge complex taking pictures.they ship all over the world, especially to Finland and Germany.this year I will occasionally post shots from there this is a 49 or 50 Cadillac hearse I noticed this article on the net this morning"That's my corpse! Funeral director scrambles to retrieve body after tow truck hooks his hearse" the decease got a free ride Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2010/03/12/2010-03-12_tow_no_thats_my_corpse_he_undertakes_mission_to_get_back_body_from_the_city_poun.html#ixzz0i3qSdKBa thanks for watching this space and any comments

Comments (81)

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bazza

6:41AM | Sat, 13 March 2010

Wow Richard how great to be able to get shots of these old cars, this one looks great, I'll book it for my funeral lol.. well done!!

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NoelCan

6:41AM | Sat, 13 March 2010

Great shot Richard..

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jayfar

6:53AM | Sat, 13 March 2010

Great shot but is it his or hearse!!!

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ragouc

7:02AM | Sat, 13 March 2010

Cool shot.

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rocserum

7:05AM | Sat, 13 March 2010

great photo! RS

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flora-crassella

7:14AM | Sat, 13 March 2010

that was surely once a very beautiful car! And the curtains are also still present! Cool!!! Wonderful and interesting picture!!!!

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shadownet

7:17AM | Sat, 13 March 2010

Nice work! Off to read the article. Sounds interesting!

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farmerC

7:21AM | Sat, 13 March 2010

Shining work.

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moochagoo

7:39AM | Sat, 13 March 2010

"Six feet under", years after :))

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Bossie_Boots

7:47AM | Sat, 13 March 2010

What a shame that a hearse ends up a rust heap superb capture and im off to have a read to hugs lou x

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kenmo

8:05AM | Sat, 13 March 2010

Maybe Bruce Springsteen had this place in mind when he wrote the song "Cadillac Ranch"... Look forward to more photos from thid fsscinating place....

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stick

8:13AM | Sat, 13 March 2010

Nice shot, restored this would be a great looking classic.

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pixeluna

8:25AM | Sat, 13 March 2010

Thanks for sharing the article, Richard. Just like people, their glory days are over.

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blinkings

8:30AM | Sat, 13 March 2010

Sensational.

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1010

8:31AM | Sat, 13 March 2010

It's so sad Richard, we all get old and rusty.

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magnus073

8:39AM | Sat, 13 March 2010

Great pic Richard and it looks like Honest John has a great collection of old cars. Looks like this one made many a trip to the graveyard back then.

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kdraper

8:43AM | Sat, 13 March 2010

Excellent shot Richard...this one does look tired and ready for retirement. But you never know a little nip here tuck there and a dermo peel it will be as good as new..lol

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jmb007

8:49AM | Sat, 13 March 2010

superbe beautees passees,splendide photo!!

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bakapo

9:01AM | Sat, 13 March 2010

this is a cool photo of how time passes... even the car that transports the dead, dies.

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Rainastorm

9:13AM | Sat, 13 March 2010

Not to be morbid, lol but my dad had a hearse for our family car a long time ago..he loved he horse power the engine had...it creeped us kids out to ride in it, so finally mom talked him into getting rid of it....I think he kept the engine lol EXCELLENT shot...I'd love to walk through this yard of cars.

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