One-Of-A-Kind For Sure! 1957 Cadillac Hearse Camper Conversion

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To quote British funny man John Cleese, “Now for something completely different.” There’s one-of-a-kind vehicles and then there is this: a 1957 Superior Coach Cadillac Hearse that was converted into a custom-built camper back in 1968. Boy, I would love to know the story behind this one. The irony of living out of a vehicle that was manufactured for “transporting the non-living” is just too funny for me and it appears to be in remarkable condition for what it is.  We need to send Sam61 a Grateful Dead t-shirt for sending this unique Caddy Camper our way.

Superior Coach Company was the coach builder that would take the bare Cadillac chassis and custom-build long wheelbase bodies tailored for their professional use, such as limousines, hearses, flower cars, and ambulances. The bodies (of the hearses, that is) had a raised roofline, an elongated rear section with large rear cargo doors, and luxurious/lavish interior materials and trim. After all, Cadillac had to maintain its “Standard of the World” image even if servicing the somber funeral services industry. An online brochure showed several available hearse models in 1957, and this one is called the “Superior-Cadillac Landaulet Side Servicing Coach.” The Caddy’s body appears to be in very good shape with the seller noting “a newer paint and re-chrome and always stored in a garage.” The current gold paint shines in the sun as does the chrome, and the trim, glass, period-correct whitewall tires and classic Caddy wheel covers all look great.

I’ll have to admit that the inside photos of the camper conversion surprised me. I wasn’t expecting a 57-ear-old camper conversion to look like this or be in this good of condition. Yes, it looks like a classic 60s-era camper, but all of the formica tops, petite appliances, and wood paneling works for me. The seller says the “camper” contains a sink, stove, refrigerator, toiler, sit-down bathtub, and a full-size bed.

Upfront, the hearse/camper has comfy-looking black bucket seats and the Caddy’s instrument panel, dash, and steering wheel look very good. There’s an aftermarket AC unit under the dash and the seller states the Caddy also has “stereo.” There are no photos of the engine, but it should be Cadillac’s 365-cubic-inch V8 with 51,000 miles on the clock that’s mated to a Hydra-Matic automatic transmission. In addition to their elegant, dignified looks, these Superior Coach Cadillac hearses were known for their smooth ride quality and for being exceptionally quiet (nobody riding in the back of these luxury professional vehicles ever complained I am told). This one-of-a kind ’57 Caddy Camper is located in St. Jospeh, Michigan and is listed for sale here on Marketplace for an asking price of $25,000. Without a doubt, this is a golden opportunity for someone to own a vehicle that will turn heads everywhere it goes – be it a car show, a funeral home, or a camping ground near you.

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Comments

  1. Bill Shields

    I’m not a camper but this would be a hoot to drive into the campground, get out of the driver’s seat, wearing a black suit of course, open the back door, crawl in and close it just to watch reactions!

    It adds a whole new dimension to the phrase “i was so tired i slept like the dead”

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  2. Jeff H

    This is clean for sure. I could see a cali person traveling with surf boards on top on weekends.
    FYI:
    I always wonder how fast one of these go with the dead weight in the back.

    I once heard that hearses only carries midgets?

    The delivery is always a little stiff.

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    • Suzanne Steffy

      Tasteless.

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      • Al

        Pathetic too!

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  3. Jack M.

    Didn’t we see this car written up earlier today?

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  4. Godzilla John Eder

    This looks like the result of a drunken hookup between a Cadillac hearse and a VW Westfalia camper.

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  5. Howard A Howard AMember

    The site is giving away Grateful Dead T shirts now? Gimme, gimme, waaaait a second, I fell for the BFs helicopter, but not falling for that.
    What is the infatuation with a hearse anyway? It’s an unlikely connection with life and death, and I’ll ride in one too soon as it is. Re: fellow campers. You pull in a site with this, I guarantee, nobody will be camped around you come morning. Someone did a lot of work here, and wonder what Angel thinks of it, wherever you are,,,

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  6. Ken Carney

    Howard, you do indeed have to appreciate the tremendous amount of time, planning, and craftsmanship that went into making this conversion a reality. And it makes me wonder if all
    the camping amenities like the stove, bath tub, and toilet actually work. If they don’t, then what you might have there is
    some really radical and strange custom car here. When I was a
    young motorhead, custom car shows were all the rage. And many times, the custom cars you saw at these shows didn’t run under their own power and had to be trailered there and pushed into their location at the show. Things like no innards inside the engine block or no braking system were common practices at these shows back then. All the car had to do was to look pretty
    enough to win a trophy without seeing any street use. A real let down to a guy like me who thought all those really cool cars should at least run and drive so that your hard work could really be enjoyed. That’s what this coach is saying to me now. Yeah, that gold paint job is really shiny and well done, and the interior
    is top notch, but does the vehicle actually drive, stop, and ast steer? That’s the big question I see here. You’re gonna wana
    take a test drive to make sure you didn’t buy a very expensive
    conversation piece you’re gonna have to live in AFTER your wife or girlfriend kicks you out of the 🏠 house for buying it! Pretty cool for what it is though.
    .

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    • Scott Taylor

      I can assure you it runs, drives, and goes down the road. The odometer reading is 51,438 and none of those were pushed or towed down the road. In fact, it has won trophies at car shows among the Grave Diggers car show for Hearse and funeral cars. Once you get to where you are going a cold beer is waiting for you in the fridge.

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  7. Scott Taylor

    Well Ron, here is a short version of the story behind the hearse: My father was an electrical engineer and loved to build all kinds of things. This was the second camper he built. The first was on a 55 Cadillac ambulance cut behind the front doors and a custom-built Class C type motor home constructed. Then he purchased the 57 and discovered the removable door jams and came up with the idea to build this as a mini-camper. As a teenager I only “assisted” in this build. It was purchased in 68 and on the road in 69 as the mini-camper as it appears today. Later in its life I added a new paint job, re-chrome, and white wall tires. On a side note, my wife and I used it on our honeymoon to Florida in 1973. And yes, we are still together. Scott and Debby Taylor Saint Joseph, Michigan

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    • scott m

      Looking through the Facebook pictures, the design is fantastic! Does the toilet pull out from under the sink? And a shower with the trick floor panel! Awesome that you have kept it in such great shape- kudos to your father!

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      • Scott Taylor

        The toilet does pull out from under the sink. The shower is under the mattress, the compartment door opens upward, and the curtain frame is attached and folds out as the door goes up.

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  8. Marko

    As my wife and I are just getting ready to hook up the truck to our fifth wheel camper in our driveway, I spot this Caddy Camper.

    For a 1968 conversion, there was a lot of thought in doing this rig, making great use of the space. I really like it.

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  9. Troy

    Just from the pictures I can’t find where they hid the LP gas bottle to feed the stove unless it just runs off those little 2lbs bottles wish I had a extra $25k laying around because I personally would buy it and then send it to a Mecum auction just to see if I could get more for it.

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    • Kim in Lanark

      The exterior shows Superior’s work at its finest. The interior is well planned and well executed. However, I just wish they used something more upscale than Home Depot landlord special wallboard.

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      • Frank M

        In 1968, that was actual 1/4 inch wood paneling, not the cheap pressboard that we see today.

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  10. Kim in Lanark

    It takes a heap of living to make a hearse a home.

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  11. Bill West

    Coaches are wonderful cars, I owned a 63 S & S 3 way fresh out of service that I mildly converted for this purpose and for hauling parts for my auto parts store. It was a joy to drive and to take to bluegrass festivals and, yes, Dead shows. I never should’ve sold it, as the prices are now well into 5 figures. This one is very nicely done with the exception of the cheap wallboard.

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  12. Lion

    Where I lived back in the ’80s there was a huge psychiatric hospital / nursing home and one of the staff drove a beater, late 60s or early70s hearse. It was always in the staff parking area near the main door. Not a Cadillac, but GM of some kind (can’t remember now). I often wonder if the hospital execs were a little miffed with him — or maybe her, I don’t know. It just made me laugh.

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  13. Jack Quantrill

    If you’re going to go, go big!

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  14. Wayne

    To answer the question, how fast is it? My uncle the funeral home director/undertaker was constantly having to make runs to Northern Indiana or the Chicago area to pickup bodies. (This is before they really started to use cargo vans for that purpose.) His funeral home was in Evansville Indiana. (Which is as far south as you can go in Indiana. ) He always drove way over the speed limit. As he was NEVER stopped for speeding. I GUESS THE ISP thought he was late for a funeral. I rode with him once from Grandma’s house in Evansville to home in Northern Illinois. (A 300 mile trip) and he made it in less than 4 hours! That Caddy ROLLED!

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    • Bill West

      These coaches weren’t fast off the line. My 63 had the 390. I lived in Vail and it would top the passes at 80 or so on the floor, that’s 11,000 feet in a 6500 lb vehicle! Out on the Eastern plains it cruised easily at 110 and I once got it to just over 120, but it was more comfortable at 110. It was also an excellent tow vehicle, I pulled a 25 foot travel trailer from Eagle to Whicita KS and it pulled as sedately as my HD 3/4 ton GMC and still delivered 12-14mpg.

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  15. Jim Sullivan

    I’ve always thought it would be fun to get an old beat up “coach”, do it up like the Ghostbusters unit, and run it in a demolition derby. If you re-plumbed the radiator to somewhere in that “stiff” cargo section of the vehicle, it would probably destroy everything else in the arena.

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  16. Tad Imbrie

    Where was this 2 years ago when I was ready to pull the trigger on an RV? I love this rig.

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  17. RexFoxMember

    I like it, but would not use the stove for cooking and hopefully the previous owner didn’t either.

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  18. chrlsful

    cant tell if the interior is coach built too from blurb.
    (Got that same surprise when reachin that pic).

    “Paneling” doesnt bother me. If it did just change over to veneerd https://glveneer.com

    I like how it is finished inside, right in style w/the era and sensibility (funeral). Only: mixed feelings – on the jalousie side windows. I hada van conversion the owner used these, may B a convert to metal frame casement (‘stained glass’ ?) would up the look instead of detract?

    I questioned the pillows in back (over the bed/tub) till realizing that is what they were (thought: “Y built-ins there?”). Really nice the black extior is gone (again, I might convert to … white?). Good job all -a- round !

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  19. Greekboy

    Every time I wax poetic about a vehicle like this my wife downloads ” Divorce for Dummys” from the i net and starts waving the papers in my face

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    • Todd J. Todd J.Member

      On the other hand, buy this and at least you’ll have a place to live.

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      • Angel_Cadillac_Queen_Diva Angel Cadillac Queen DivaMember

        @ Todd J

        And die ⚰️

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  20. Kenneth Carney

    Greekboy, some ladies just aren’t into old cars like we are. My wife, God rest her soul, was very cool about it. When I met her, I had a ’62 Rambler Classic 2-door sedan and she didn’t care. The only thing she didn’t like was hearses She’d let me have anything but a hearse. So I met her half way and she let me have all the old cars I wanted. In your case, have you tried to tell her that it’s gonna be hers when you get it done? Give it a try sometime. You just might be surprised.

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  21. Angel_Cadillac_Queen_Diva Angel Cadillac Queen DivaMember

    Howard, luv, you know I’m smitten with this coach conversion. First, I love 1957 Cadillacs. Second, I love hearses, third I love the gold color. Looks so good on a hearse. A cross between somber decadence and a party animal.
    Forth, at first I thought I’d hate the fact that they “ruined” a beautiful hearse converting it into a suit-o camper. I was shocked. They did a really good job on this. My only question is where is the restroom that was mentioned? It wouldn’t be outhouse style with that trap door on the floor, would it? I could live in this i think. I’m not much of a camper but this would certainly make me one. Just add a flip down flat-screen TV with DVD/BR and I’m good to go.
    I do have to agree with some of the other comments about the cheap wood paneling, but it was the 1960s. That stuff was used everywhere. It was a favorite of my father’s remodeling jobs around the house. The stove could use a small hood vent exiting out the roof.
    All in all, whoever did this did an excellent job. Angel approved and certified. 😇

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    • Joe Leslein

      Angel, the toilet stows under the sink ;) giving new meaning to the term “potable” water.

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      • Angel_Cadillac_Queen_Diva Angel Cadillac Queen DivaMember

        @Joe Leslein

        Thanks, Joe, I was really curious about that, but I think my idea of that trap door in the floor is cooler.

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  22. Angel_Cadillac_Queen_Diva Angel Cadillac Queen DivaMember

    @Ken

    This is what I don’t understand. I’d make a great wife for a car collector. You could buy any car you want as many as you want. In fact, I’ll join you. My collection would probably be bigger than yours. LOL
    You’d have someone to go to car shows with, someone to go to junkyards with and someone to hold the flashlight while you tighten that bolt on the heads.
    I can change my own oil, and my own tires. Given the correct tools I can detail any car.
    I was corresponding with this guy in Pennsylvania when I first moved to Baltimore. Met him on a dating site. Found out he had a ’63 Pontiac Grand Prix and a ’78 Lincoln Continental. Wow! Someone I have something in common with. We were suppose to meet up at a car show here in Maryland back in May. But something happened. I either said something or didn’t say something, I don’t know, but he quickly lost interest. Never did make it to that car show even by myself.
    I was lucky. Second hubby allowed my passion. He wasn’t “into it” as much as I am, but he allowed me to buy whatever I wanted. Even went to junkyards with me occassionally and helped work on the cars with me. That’s how I ended up with 10 cars and trucks in the driveway. Having a driveway helped too. We had a house, not an apartment.
    Just seems like the guys I date are only interested in one thing……. and it ain’t cars!

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    • Howard A Howard AMember

      And what would that “1 thing ” be, dear, drag racing? Football? Bacon? Oh,,that, well, as an “alta kocker”, I’m just glad to be able to pee, and not blowing sunshine, well maybe a little, you probably forgot more than most know, me included, and I’m glad this site appeals to you.
      Now( whispering) you take I-15 to I-70, to Hy. 50 east, over the hill(s), and meet me at McDonalds at high noon Saturday, lunch is on me, $5.00 max,,, :)

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      • Todd J. Todd J.Member

        You old rascal, Howard! And throwing in some Yiddish to boot!

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      • Angel_Cadillac_Queen_Diva Angel Cadillac Queen DivaMember

        Bacon, Howard, definitely bacon! LOL
        You’re such a perv, I love it.
        I 70 is such a boring drive, especially through Kansas. I’ll take I 40 go up through New Mexico. I was just at Burger King. Got my godson a meal and me a ice cream cup. $15!
        I remember when a burger was 15 cents. Yeah, I’m that old.

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  23. Big C

    My dad’s best friend converted a ’55 Caddy hearse with an actual full-size camper. Painted it bright pink! Took it on his honeymoon. And it was parked in the front of his salvage yard til the day he died.

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  24. scott m

    Pillerless!

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  25. Kenneth Carney

    You’re my kinda lady Angel! That’s what I meant in the Super
    Fly post when I said that I’d be proud to take you anywhere with me. And to me, age is just a proposition of mind over matter–if you don’t mind, then it really doesn’t matter. I can just see us now, strolling down the street at a car show. Walking hand in hand as we look at all the great cars they have there, maybe sharing a smooch or two along the way.
    And our collection? It would more than likely be as big as
    Harrah’s was in about ’68 or so. I got to see some of it in Car
    Classics Magazine when I was 14. And between all the classic cars and all the street rods, and the stuff my Dad and I built, I was one car crazy kid lemme tell ya’! It got so bad that I completely forgot about girls! But that was okay by me
    as many of them were very cruel towards a guy with disabilities any way. And that’s how I survived my teen years.
    Between working on cars and playing music, I had enough to do without getting into trouble. I’d be at church on Saturdays
    and maybe Sundays fixing the partitioners cars when something simple gave out. Angel, you should’ve seen me walk into church on Sunday morning with my large print Bible
    in one hand, and my toolbox and jumper cables in the other.
    And my coveralls? They kept ’em downstairs in the fellowship hall just in case I needed them. And yeah, I wore my Sunday suit, a tie, and some Old Spice after shave to try
    and impress what young ladies there were about my age.
    Fast forward to today: dating sites to me are nothing more than meat markets where people go to hook up, get their jollies, and then leave. Could someone please explain to me what sense there is in that? I tell ya’ Angel, we need to find a way to pal around together. Every Friday and Saturday night,
    they have a monster cruise over at Old Town in Kissimmee FL. After the cruise is done, we could look at the cars, visit
    some shops that have some really great car merch in them.
    Or, we just walk across the street to this little bar I know where I could sing to you a little while before we go exploring.
    Why I know this place where the Papas Locas are to die for!
    And I always get ’em, diabetes be damned. Holy crap! If one of us owned this coach, we could show it off there and cruise it too! Or, we do the Cadaver Transport thing, buy a nice older
    coach, and display that one instead. Couldn’t think of a better way to advertise the business than at a car show!
    And yes dear, I’m sorry that your post went right over my head. Guess I’ve been single so long that I didn’t quite understand what you were telling me. But now that I get it,
    I wanna hang out with you and whatever happens happens.

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    • Wademo

      Barn Finds as a dating site. Hmm, sounds kind of strange and funny at the same time!🤣

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  26. Kenneth Carney

    Scott, after all these years, how can you bear to part with it?
    You have so many memories with this car that I don’t understand why you’re wanting to sell it now. Aren’t your kids
    interested in it? We here at the Barn would sure like to know.

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  27. Scott Taylor

    I can assure you it runs, drives, and goes down the road. The odometer reading is 51,438 and none of those were pushed or towed down the road. In fact, it has won trophies at car shows among the Grave Diggers car show for Hearse and funeral cars. Once you get to where you are going a cold beer is waiting for you in the fridge.

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  28. Scott Taylor

    The above reply was for Kens comment toward the beginning of the comment section. The answer to this question is getting old Ken, getting old. My daughter was not interested in it, so on with the sale.

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  29. Ken Carney

    Hi Angel! How’s that godson of yours doing? The last time we talked on email, you were very angry with him. Sure hope he’s
    coming around to a more mature way of thinking. And yes dear,
    you can tell him about me if you like and I won’t mind at all. Anything to help out a friend. And yeah, I’m that old too! I tell my kids of a time when you could get a burger for $.15 at your
    local McDonald’s. And if that wasn’t enough, you could get a Big Mac for just $.58! That was in ’68 when they first came out.
    And sloppy? You had to make a bib out of napkins just make sure you didn’t wear half of it going home. And sometimes they
    had so much lettuce on them that you wondered if it was a burger or a salad! Yeah folks, I can still recall being able to get
    a Big Mac, fries, and a drink for less than $1! And that’s what my cousin and I would do when I spent the night at his house.
    We rode our bikes down to the Twin Cinemas to catch a movie,
    and stop by McDonald’s on the way back to his house. And if we wanted pizza, we stopped by Tobin’s and got a medium pie and a pitcher of iced tea or soda for $5 or $6. After that, we went home and played pretzel poker with the neighbor kids and my aunt. One night, I got lucky and won a well used ’60 Chevy
    Biscayne 2-door wagon in one of those poker games. But that’s
    a story for another time.

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  30. Angel_Cadillac_Queen_Diva Angel Cadillac Queen DivaMember

    Hey Ken,
    When is that email getting fixed?
    Justin is doing better. I just took him to his first job interview. Now we wait.
    His grandmother, my BFF is also doing better. She was much more lucid and cognitive with my last visit.
    Yes, the good old days when a dollar was worth a dollar. Now it’s barely worth the paper it’s printed on.
    And @Wademo, I’ve been accused of using this site as a dating site before. Just a fun/funny, personable person who probably shares TMI. But it does boggle my mind that these guys have a passion but end up marrying women who basically limit that passion. Where as I, have the same passion. Even some knowledge. That’s all I was saying.
    I like my guys here. We’re a car family and enjoy the comrodery and discussions about cars and other aspects of life.

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  31. Ken Carney

    Morning Angel! Sadly, the email issue is still ongoing. The girls
    have tried to fix it but to no avail. Looks like I’ll have to call in the pros on this one. Was gonna do it last month, but our apartment complex screwed us over with a $600+ electric bill
    after they had 20 drying machines in our old place after a pipe burst and nearly flooded the whole apartment. Normally, they
    would pay the difference between your bill and what power their
    machines used. (Insert buzzer) Not this time! We got it paid but
    we as poor as church mice now. Maybe when my sister sends me some birthday money, I can go down to Best Buy and have them sort it out.

    I’m glad to hear that your friend is doing much better too. I often wonder how things are going in that regard. It’s very hard to see someone you love disappearing before your very eyes. Ask me, I’ll tell you. And to Justin, vongrsts on your first interview. Let me give some pointers that might help you out.
    1. If you get hired, give it all you’ve got and don’t be afraid to make mistakes. That’s how you learn to do the job right.
    2. Watch your trainers closely and learn all you can from them.
    This will help you become a giant at your job and not a washout..
    3. No matter how hard the work might get, don’t give up. Keep plugging away til the job is finished. Do the job the best way you know how and do it well. And remember, being good at what you do gets you stuff.
    4. Never let the wrong people influence you. Be your own man.
    Do the job right from start to finish and don’t cut corners! It might just come back and help the you on the ass someday.
    And above all else, stay in there and pitch? And pitch til it’s
    done. I hope this helps you to become a great worker.

    And Wadeemo, this is hy no means s eating dite. It’s a place where we motorheafs come to talk about cars and shoot the breeze. We’re one big happy family here and you’re always welcome to join us.

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  32. Wayne

    Angel QCD, I did that with #2 wife. She was an SCCA tech inspector and liked “funny little cars” like I did. In fact no kids for 10 years as there was no time with all the racing activities. But once children came along her priorities changed to the fiber arts. (Spinning and weaving) and the car thing got put on the shelf. People change and she is completely opposite of the lady I married. (priorities, general attitude, life, and political views) I had hoped that a change would come as the kids left home. But it got to the point that I couldn’t take it anymore.

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  33. Kenneth Carney

    Sorry to hear that Wayne. A lot of couples fall into the same trap these days. Yeah, I get it that the dynamic between a couple can change over time. Sadly, my wife and I were not blessed with children. But if that happened, I would have traded my 2-door for a 4-door or a wagon and called it a day.
    And yeah, we had some really nice classic cars along the way .and we drove them daily as we couldn’t afford a new car. So we just made do with driving out old cars around, we did all the maintenance ourselves. Even taught my wife how to put
    in a new alternator and starters too. I recall the time I was doing some extra work around the Taco Bell restaurant I worked at in the ’90s. I was about to get off work that day so I went out to tell her I’d be done in a few minutes and there she was, putting in a brand new alternator into a beat up old Datsun 1200 sedan for a lady with 3 kids! Turns out the only
    thing she did wrong was to pull the hot wire off the battery so she wouldn’t get zapped. Was I proud of her? You bet I was.
    And that’s what I think about whenever I start missing her.
    She’s been gone nearly 22 years now and I still miss her. Maybe I’ll find another but I think not. You only get one chance at a good relationship and I’ve had mine. We had 22
    years together and there ain’t no second chance when it comes to things like that. So nowadays, it’s just my adopted kids, my job, and me.

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  34. Wayne

    Kenneth Carney, I do have the car relationship with my daughter. I told my kids that I would buy them their first car. I would spend $100. And when they were done completely rebuilding the car (on their own nickel that I fronted when needed to) they were allowed to get a driver’s license after Dad’s instruction. (I also volunteer as an instructor/coach at Steet Survival) I spent many long hours in the garage with my kids. And it paid off. My daughter doesn’t work on her own car. But could if the need arose. BUT, when the Audi dealership calls about needed repairs, she is down there inspecting the “needed” repairs. Many of time she has refused to repair “the leak” which was just seepage. My son is more into fishing, but uses guidelines on how to order a new vehicle that I taught him. Ended up with great kids, but a bad wife after 29 years.

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  35. Angel_Cadillac_Queen_Diva Angel Cadillac Queen DivaMember

    @Wayne

    You sound like a great dad who raised great kids. I’m sorry about the wife thing. I guess people do change. I never had any kids so I’m still pretty much the 20 year old I was all those decades ago. I have a 21 year old goddaughter and two 16 year old godsons, but it’s not the same. I spoil them the best I can. LOL
    All three husbands cheated on me. First two with women, third with drugs and alcohol. Se la vi. What ya gonna do?
    In my 70s and still looking for husband #4
    But no, I don’t use this as a dating site. I like the guys here but most are already married. Besides, I’m a diva and most men can’t handle that. 😝😉

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  36. Ken Carney

    Wayne, you sir, are the father I always wanted to be. But it wasn’t all that bad. I just adopted a whole store full of kids and
    mentored those who needed a father figure when they had no man at home. Of all the kids I mentored, a small group of them stand out. Three of my “sons” went into law enforcement. Two with the Polk County Sheriff’s department and one s police officer in Lake Hamilton Florida. Three more joined the Marine
    Corps after I bought the recruiter lunch one weekend to tell them what the Corps could offer them. And my “daughters”,
    One is now a doctor, two more are attorneys. I taught my “kids”
    to dream big and go for the prize. And the others? I hope that I
    was able to teach them what they need to know to make a better life for themselves. And that’s what it’s all about.

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  37. Wayne

    Ken My daughter when she was 15 and had completed the rebuild of her gray market Audi 80 (known as the Fox here) 2 door sedan/Coupe? A 1972 model. (They weren’t imported here until late 1973) Bit it needed paint. So I took her to a friend’s body shop and told the owner that she needed a paint job and she would have to work it off by sweeping floors, filing, what ever he needed. She started the next day and was there until she graduated college. She was basically the assistant manager. The owner still marvels at what a great worker/team member she was. (I run into him periodically at car shows where he shows his “Loan Wolf” custom 1957 Buick.Google Lone Wolf custom Buick. It is bright orange and has been in several magazines) I worked just down the street and would always pick her up when driving something cool. And she would call when ever she got to drive something cool to the alignment shop, as many times she was the only one there that drove a manual transmission. She was to go to girl in high school when any of her female classmates were having car trouble. She is now an assistant principal at a .middle/Jr. High school.
    My son is a welder and loves fishing.

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  38. Ken Carney

    Morning Angel! Thought I’d stop by the Barn and say hi. My email may be fixed sooner than I think. My SIL says that she’s going to reset one of our Spectrum phones for me to use since my phone is all but croaked. Eldorado alert! A ’71 Eldorado was posted on BF! Howard and I think we should put a set of
    steer horns on it before we present it to her highness for her birthday LOL! It looks good overall but will need to be eteamed
    And pressure washed to make it presentable after you go through the fuel , brake, and tranny systems before you can drive it. And Scott, if I had $25K, I and someone I trust, would fly in and drive it to my place in Florida. Then, I would take it to
    Old Town for their cruise nights there. I’d open it up and display it so that folks here could see what a tremendous job that your
    father did putting it together. I would set up my easel and draw cars while people watch. I showed 2 Cadillacs to Angel while I was making them and she bought them both. Still holding them for her until she gets her car room finished. And Wayne, the more I hear from you, the more I hear from you, the more I want to meet you. I find it refreshing to find a like minded person with the same values and work ethic that I have. And as for my wife, she’s still alive, but had to be institutionalized after her stroke in 2003. I had to give up my marital rights and make her a ward of the state or the hospital she was in was going to pull the plug on her after the bill reached $400K. Part of the one conditions are that I can never see, or contact her again. At least I know she’s alive and getting the best care possible. Just thought I’d clear the air on that. It was the hardest decision I ever made. But enough of that. Time to get the ’56 Oldsmobile
    out on my work bench and Iry to finish it before going to work.
    Have a look at the Eldorado Angel, I think you’ll like it.

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