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1952 Packard Funeral Coach Henney [2413]

1952 Packard Funeral Coach [2413] in The Hearse, Movie, 1980

Class: Cars, Funeral — Model origin:

1952 Packard Funeral Coach Henney [2413]

00:30:19 The vehicle is part of the movie

Comments about this vehicle

Author	Message
93montero ◊ 2011-09-16 07:17	Spoiler - click here to see it -- Last edit: 2011-10-01 10:12:48
Commander 57 ◊ 2011-09-16 15:47	This car carries the '51 to '52 front, not the '53 style. -- Last edit: 2011-11-17 13:25:34
ABorkat ◊ 2011-10-12 22:20	Built by Henney.
GodzillaFan54 ◊ 2019-11-03 01:25	Anyone know the production figures of this car? I'd love to have one! I've heard it's a very rare car nowadays.
Animatronixx ◊ 2020-02-25 19:45	@GodzillaFan54 Production figures of the Henney Motor Co. are a difficult matter, as the original records appear to be lost. During the 1951 model year, Henney produced 401 ambulances and funeral coaches on the 2413 Packard 156" commercial chassis and the range consisted of 19 different models. The one above is either a straight limousine hearse or - most likely - a combination hearse/ ambulance.
no-a ◊ 2020-02-25 19:57	It seems two cars were used 1952 grille with a crest ornament -- Last edit: 2020-02-25 21:34:25
GodzillaFan54 ◊ 2020-02-26 01:52	The tailights look very similar to those on the '57 Cadillac Devilles. https://justamericanautomobiles.com/images/1957-cadillac.jpg
Packard Don ◊ 2022-07-28 18:30	This coach is actually a "bitsa". A bit of this, a bit of that. The grille is 1951 (no holes for the emblem on SOME photos here) but the hood is 1952-1954 (no 1951 PACKARD block lettering or holes from them), The hood ornament is 1953-1954 in SOME of the photos and 1952 in others. I would have to watch the movie again but I saw a number of other mix-and-match details. When the movie The Hearse (which was filmed in the San Francisco Bay area and north of there) first came out, I was offered to put my nice original 1952 Henney-Packard Nu-3-Way (side-loader) in the theater lobby but I declined. So, that the car didn't have the emblem in some photos and did in others and that the hood ornament style changed leads me to believe that either two cars were used OR some of these photos are reenactments. -- Last edit: 2022-07-28 18:33:15
IHateFreedom ◊ 2022-08-05 23:27	From Fangoria: "We wanted a hearse that was very old, but every time you do a film, you have to get something that can be doubled. We push the car off a cliff, we blow the car up, etc., so we had to have two cars that were identical. The hearse is a 1953 Packard. It's a very antique, eerie-looking vehicle. I had people looking high and low for that special look, and when we decided on the Packard, we had to search for a double. We finally found one in Arizona; in the Mojave Desert, there's a crazy old man they call The Packard Man, who had hundreds of them. The hearse is a big, beautiful thing with eight gears; nobody knew how to drive it. We dropped one of the cars off a 60-foot cliff; we blew it up. It was so well-built, the engine was undamaged!"

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