Here's a blank canvas for you...

[Mark D]

Cars certainly got some nice lines... http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/?cmd=ViewItem&_rdc=1&item=390395083819&ru=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.com%3A80%2Fsch%2Fi.html%3F_from%3DR40%26_trksid%3Dm570.l2736%26_nkw%3D390395083819%26_fvi%3D1

[BobT-47P15]

I wonder if it originally had windows in the rear doors and behind them,

as it looks like those areas have been blanked out or filled in.

A local funeral home not far from our house (when I was a kid) used

Chrysler product vehicles of various styles. Don't recall whether they

had one just like this, though.

[BobT-47P15]

I guess the factory must have closed off the windows, judging by this

picture.

[Frank Elder]

Look more homemade than coachbuilt to me.........

[54Illinois]

"To sum it up you have an opportunity to own a very, very rare car. You could be the only one at the funeral car and ambulance meet with one of these. Or customize it and run it through Barrett Jackson as a resto mod limo, street rod, or hot rod sedan delivery. Or maybe put it on a 4x4 chassis and make it look like the Grave Digger!"

Translated-

This is what I wanted to do, until my wife said..."There ain't no way in heck am I driving around in an old hearse, get rid of it!"

[Mark D]

"To sum it up you have an opportunity to own a very, very rare car. You could be the only one at the funeral car and ambulance meet with one of these. Or customize it and run it through Barrett Jackson as a resto mod limo, street rod, or hot rod sedan delivery. Or maybe put it on a 4x4 chassis and make it look like the Grave Digger!"

Translated-

This is what I wanted to do, until my wife said..."There ain't no way in heck am I driving around in an old hearse, get rid of it!"

But honey - it's not a hearse, its a 1948 SUV...

[Plymouthy Adams]

that is what all the soccer moms drove back then...

[Don Coatney]

that is what all the soccer moms drove back then...

Back then there were no soccer moms.

[Plymouthy Adams]

Back then there were no soccer moms.

WEll...had there been soccer...this is what they would have driven...maybe band-camp moms then..or maybe a few took the kiddies to ballet practice..lots of room for a crew in a tutu

[PatS....]

This was an army base ambulance for much of it's life. Was for sale locally a couple of yrs ago.

Coachwork seems similar

[Uncle-Pekka]

Carrying on Tim's and Don's conversation:

"Wow, I did not know the soccer moms did also funerals..."

[BobT-47P15]

I wonder if some previous owner decided to cover the back windows and

make it a big "sedan delivery".

[Uncle-Pekka]

Both Chrysler & Plymouth pictured here are really handsome cars as long wheelbase versions. I think I'd prefer both with windows, as ambulance version. (Well, most hearses had windows too...) Hearses are "in fashion" (yes, kind of cool), but period correct ambulances are getting much more rare sight. True to detail ambulance interior is hard to build and not practical to have. How about detailed ambulance exterior and sort of "camper" with old field beds in patient compartment?