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Minor action vehicle or used in only a short scene
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◊ 2020-08-25 11:32 |
![[Image: hearsei002249.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/26849/hearsei002249.jpg) Nicely blocked by everybody.. |
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◊ 2020-08-25 13:53 |
Good job, @everybodies!  It's a W120/ W121, aka. the most common hearse used in Germany back then. I already have a long list of "who didn't build it" and need to be back in my office for further research.Until then, a few questions @s13a (if you can answer them, that is): - are we on location in the Frankfurt/ Offenbach area, where Ms. Nitribitt was actually found dead? Or rather Munich? - is that one rear door (I suppose) or two? - rear window(s) or not? - do we see the coffin getting (un)loaded in and the door(s) getting closed in one shot without a cut? |
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◊ 2020-08-25 14:25 |
- I don't know about the specific location or the specific details (though I don't quite understand german either as there were no subtitles in the movie), however it wasn't Rosemarie Nitribitt in the coffin, but rather another call girl (perhaps a friend or just an acquaintance). According to the wiki, most of the movie was shot in Munich-Türkenstrasse. - One -> ![[Image: hearse.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/26849/hearse.jpg) .- Yes, see above. - The coffin was being loaded and the door was closing in one shot without a cut. |
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◊ 2020-08-25 21:54 |
Ok, thanks so far. We have the usual suspects (Pollmann, Stolle, Rappold, Welsch, Miesen, Binz) and the unusual suspects (Lueg, Kässbohrer, Heidemann, Pfefferkorn, Herrmann, Hägele etc. etc.) - none of them would build it that way with an extremely round and low roof in the rear and a door opening to the right side (except for Lueg, but we're pretty safe to rule them out), not to mention an almost oval rear window. Also, not a single molding can be seen, which is rather strange. Hearse coachbuilder-wise, I usually have a few aces up my sleeve, but they all failed here. It does seem to be an actual hearse rather than a station wagon conversion, but most likely carried out by a coachbuilder who wasn't very experienced in the funeral car business and probaly built it for a local funeral home. That happened quite a lot across post-war Germany, especially before a DIN standard was established. Most likely a one-off by a smaller coachbuilder, who often fall into oblivion and/ or weren't very active keeping records and pictures of their work. I'd love to know more, but for the moment, I'm unable to attach a coachbuilder's name to that one. This is one of the reasons why I once chose this hobby: It never ends and you'll never get bored by having seen everything. .gif ";)") -- Last edit: 2020-08-25 21:56:28 |
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