Check out this color combo
- Thread starter Paul Cichon
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When I first started working at the funeral home, the gentleman I bought it from traded for a holdover 1967 M&M Traditional combination that had never been titled so it was considered new eventhough it was 1969 when he bought it. It had less than 500 miles on it and was almost the same color combination as these cars only reversed. The bottom was a copper color and the top was beige vinyl. It was beautiful. It had vinyl instead of the crinkle top and no hole for a beacon ray. Instead it had a pair of spotlights with red bulbs that flashed alternately and a model 28 siren. Since he had another combination and a station wagon with beacon rays he never put one on and I never had trouble moving traffic with it. The only reason I could ever think that no one bought this car was that it did not have the flip tables in the rear. Instead it had the Ferno bolt down rollers that had to be taken out after each funeral. Other than that, it was the prettiest car this firm has ever had in the garage including the Masterpiece and Crown that I have now.
Looks like 1967 Cadillac Sudan Beige
Really like those '94-'96 Superior Crowns - then again I'm biased.
Danny Ryder - Deceased - 1962 - 2021
PCS Life Member
I sometimes think odd colors from the norm of white and black per say are great. Guess that is why I love the blue of my 70. I think these cars are great in these colors.
Andrew G. Zajkowski
PCS Member / Super Site Supporter 9 years
Thompson funeral home in detroit, michigan i believed used white/ blk on there vehicles including a eary 80's Superior flower car unsure of there choice of color now.
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thompson funeral home had light blue coaches
Reigle Funeral Home in Flint, MI used red cars.
John Royark JR
PCS Member
I kinda like the red ones. It seems red is popular for some reason in the north. I have seen them come out of Minn. and North and South Dakota.
sorry dont know the funeral home names. And now MI.
I have a dozen or so red coaches pictures saved but here is two that Fleet Professional cars in Nebraska has/had for sale recently.
Tony Karsnia - Deceased - 1971-2020
September 12, 1971 - November 2, 2020
I like the Red with Red Top !! ...very classy looking
John Royark JR
PCS Member
I prefer the black over red. I called on it and he wanted $9,500 for it.
Tony Karsnia - Deceased - 1971-2020
September 12, 1971 - November 2, 2020
They're not just black, white, or silver
Red, you say?
1986 S&S Buick: Baker FH, Mayville, ND
1986 Eureka Pontiac: Stennes FH, East Grand Forks, MN (This is the same car that was recently on ebay, for sale by Baines PV, as I photographed it at Stennes FH in 1990.)
(Karsnia photos)
Red, you say?
1986 S&S Buick: Baker FH, Mayville, ND
1986 Eureka Pontiac: Stennes FH, East Grand Forks, MN (This is the same car that was recently on ebay, for sale by Baines PV, as I photographed it at Stennes FH in 1990.)
(Karsnia photos)
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Martin Harvey
PCS Member
Really love that color, our cars are white but this shade is very nice on these 90's !
John Royark JR
PCS Member
I didnt know that was the same Pontiac. The color must not have held up well.
John Royark JR
PCS Member
Speaking of red I forgot all about my old 66 Superior combo.
Bad pics I know, this was way before my digital camera days.
Bad pics I know, this was way before my digital camera days.
the reds tend to go fast especially in a repaint. takes a lot of keep them clean
Tony Karsnia - Deceased - 1971-2020
September 12, 1971 - November 2, 2020
Eureka Pontiac
I know this is hard to believe, but the "red" Eureka Pontiac from Stennes Funeral Home was pretty much the same in 2011 as it was in 1990, color-wise. That color was one of the most amazing I've ever seen, capable of changing shades very quickly depending on lighting. In 1990, after I photograhed it in the sun, it changed to burnt orange when they backed it into the garage. It could be brown, copper, burnt orange or red depending on lighting and angle.
I saw the car at Baines in 2011 on a day that the sun was just peeking through the clouds and I could see the copper changing to red. I suggested to John Baines that he photograph it on a sunny day, but he prefers cloudy day photography, so that's why you saw the car as the odd copper color.
I know this is hard to believe, but the "red" Eureka Pontiac from Stennes Funeral Home was pretty much the same in 2011 as it was in 1990, color-wise. That color was one of the most amazing I've ever seen, capable of changing shades very quickly depending on lighting. In 1990, after I photograhed it in the sun, it changed to burnt orange when they backed it into the garage. It could be brown, copper, burnt orange or red depending on lighting and angle.
I saw the car at Baines in 2011 on a day that the sun was just peeking through the clouds and I could see the copper changing to red. I suggested to John Baines that he photograph it on a sunny day, but he prefers cloudy day photography, so that's why you saw the car as the odd copper color.