'Motors'

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It served briefly as a boat?

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What happens when your panel gaps are airtight vs whatever this is:

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What’s more, it didn’t trap its occupants inside and burst into flames.

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Robot mule? They can call it the “Hee-Hawl”.

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Any guesses on how a Trump administration would have directed the DOJ?

YEP!

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Three speculative reasons why this didn’t catch on, maybe:

The video also mentions Ford’s go at liquid tire chains and an early computerised traction control system on Buicks, that’s the graphic in the video’s thumbnail.

LTC comes up every now and then here and there, and there’s usually a comment along the lines of “sort of worked if applied correctly in the circumstances it was intended for, but messed up your pedals and carpet if you happened to get some on your boots”.

One source I’ve found claims it’s an emulsion of styrene-butadiene and ethanol. Makes sense to me because styrene-butadiene is synthetic rubber, but I’m not a chemist.

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In our vicinity

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When you gotta go, go in style.

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/wrings hands menacingly (Well, as menacingly as a silly old lady can manage)
/evilly smiles evil
heh heh heh

Hearses, is it?

Well, 'tis the season and all
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You may want to buckle yr seatbelts. Here we go…

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1929 Studebaker Children’s Hearse
{Ed. Note: Before-and-Afters do my heart good}


The above 1940 LaSalle hearse was pressed into service for Aretha Franklin’s and Rosa Parks’ funerals.


Not a motor - this Victorian beauty was powered by hayburners - but it’s lovely


2016 Maserati Ghibli Hearse


A Pontiac Le Mans leads
♬ ♪ ♩ ♫ I love a parade… ♫ ♩ ♪ ♬


1916 Cadillac Giessel - maybe the oldest living Caddy hearse


As found

…after some work…

…and well in progress!
1940 Buick “Roadster” Hearse. One of a kind.

The source of the following 3:

A great post, as one expects from Dangerous Minds


A restored “funeral car” from Argentina, 1942


Argentina, late 1920s


Spain, 1920s/1930s

@anon33176345, the beautiful white one whom you posted is “a hearse from Spain called ‘La Gloria’ 1932.”

All of the above was nicked from my tumblr - #Hearses - and there are a lot more there. smiley-channelde_kirche003 grobovschik

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Those are delightful. Do you think the more ornate ones are carved wood and plaster?

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Probably. Many coachmakers and early auto body builders were furniture makers, after all.

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Founded by the late Rev. Paul “Faster Pastor” Sinclair.

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Stone, 1974 Australian movie about bikers:

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The organization said that 22,058 motorcyclists’ lives could have been saved if every state had required all riders to wear helmets from 1976 to 2022. The figure represents 11% of all rider fatalities over those years.

Only 17 states and the District of Columbia that have such laws in place.

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