> http://www.chevytrucks.org/temp/junkyardburb.jpg
> Can anyone ID this beast??...
The main body looks an awful lot like the 40 LaSalle hearse in my yard!
The hood gives it away as a postwar Buick, search the net for "1946
buick" and you'll see pics of one.
My guess is it's a 46 or thereabouts Buick hearse or ambulance, which
could have been converted to a bus. It is a car based vehicle, not
truck based, so it's not really a Suburban at all. Back then the
hearses were "conversions" where the wheelbase was stretched and much of
the body behind the cowl was hand made. The LaSalle body has a lot of
wood in it, which was not used in regular GM Fisher bodies after 1936.
If anyone is interested in building a LaSalle hearse, let me
know....it's been sitting in AZ for years waiting for someone with some
motivation to make it into a killer ride (lousy pun).
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Jim
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