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First Wash in 16 Years: ABANDONED MOLDY Cadillac Hearse! | Car Detailing Restoration! Today, we tackle the interior & exterior of a Cadillac Hearse, that is covered in mold, dirt and debris that hasn't been detailed in years that will require us to pressure wash the entire exterior, followed by a wash, clay bar and then polishing the paint to bring back its shine and a full interior detail including mold removal! If you find our videos satisfying or motivating make sure you hit subscribe! #barnfind #carcleaning #detailing #cleaning #restoration
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The silver bar on the rear quarter of the hearse is called a landau bar. It serves no purpose other than it is a tradition. Hearses are also known as a coach. Back in the days a coach (horse drawn) had a roof that could be taken down like a convertible, the landau bars helped to fold down the collapsed roof. Coaches of that nature were consider for the rich and noble. Thus the Landau bar serves as a sign of nobility and respect for the deceased.
Was just going to offer the same info.
I thought the same.
Perfect explanation .
Hearses were also used as Ambulance vehicles...
@@SargeWolf010There dedicated hearses, dedicated ambulances, as well as dual purpose. By the time this Cadillac was built, ambulance standards had evolved and car based ambulances were no longer allowed. The Professional Chassis was then limited to limousine and hearse conversiond.
Funeral director here! I own quite a few hearses for our firm as well as for personal use, including one similar to the one in the video. The engine is the 5.7L based off the LT1 used in the C4 Corvettes. These are great year models to have because its just before Cadillac switched to the North Star V8s.
Also the landau bars (large trim on the side) is usually easily removed by unscrewing the large, round knobs on each end. Makes it easier to clean behind them. Not always the case but worth a shot.
Same engine was used in the Buick Roadmaster
No one is going wonder about the "personal use" hearse?? LOL... Seriously though, I would love to hae one as a daily driver. Immensely useful automobile with all the space. I just wish they had 4 seats....
That's a cool job and business,I guess I just learned something new 😂😂
Are you sure that rod knock wasn’t someone trying to get out? 😳😱😂
I am a clergyman so I have seen the inside of a hearse many times, sadly! The one you are uncovering is a classic!
Owned a 1974 Cadillac Superior Hearse as a daily driver for many years. Used it mainly because I worked on restoring Pinball machines. and was the best way to haul them save and dry. the bier pins would hold the machine Stabil with out having to tie them down. Loved that car.
I had to transport a lot of plexiglass and my 83 century coach was great for the job! Everyone at the ski resort loved it lol
The figure on the side of the hearse is a landau bar that’s supposed to represent a folding hinge. It’s purely ornamental. Great job guys. Love the content.
Interesting, thanks for the fun fact 😅
That's the key to a nicely stylized landau bar, it's suppose to be a hinge to lower the folding roof....so in this case, the vinyl roof canopy and the bar itself together is to give the impression of the entire roof folding back........clearly it doesn't, but that;s what it's suppose to look like.....
I hope that someone fixes the motor and the car is saved. Loved watching the detail job. Nice work!
Was that a fabulous Hudson hornet behind you when you were talking about Dave
Look at how wide, deep and luxurious those front seats are !!!!!
That "symbol" on the back is a Landau bar which you see on Landau tops or roofs. It originally was a decorative metal hinge that allowed you to fold down a leather or cloth top on a car. The circle in the middle and on the two ends would be the pivot points. Clearly this isn't going to retract but that is the origin of the styling cue you are looking at. ...oh and after I write this I see five other people nailed it in an hour - I guess this just adds more proof LOL.
Wow!! You really brought that hearse back from the dead!! Nicely done!
Ba dum tiss.
I own a 1995 Cadillac Hearse. As a hot rodder I was looking for a enclosed parts hauler with a nice V8. My search for a panel van, station wagon or a hearse, lead me to the hearse. To quote Dan Akroyd "It's a Cadillac!" Plus it is just so cool!
I drove one in High School. It's was a 1985 Cadillac, all black. Turned the coffin onto a sub box / cooler. Was a cool ride and freaked most people out because I always arrived to school early (zero period) which meant i left early too, so for a few months nobody knew who drove it. It was just therr in the morning and gone when everyone got out of school. Blast during Halloween too.
I’ve owned multiple hearses and seeing this I know what struggles are involved especially when they sit out in the elements for so many years. Funeral cars were meant to be garage kept. The makers built these with the intention of them not being left outside. They do leak a lot of water inside and always have a musty and mildew smell to the inside. Pretty sure all that one needs is a fuel pump and a change of fluids and a fresh battery. A nice set of white walls too
That knocking rod might need a little attention too. Probably why it was abandoned.
I would not pay that kind of money for something that leaked,hearse are very expensive!
@@scottsmith9185 may be nothing wrong noise may be due to years of not running, may go away after running for awhile
rod knock generally never goes away@@Randall-mt7jk
I would not buy it if it would leak or cannot stand outside. Has to be pretty shtty if they build it so bad for that money. So it would be better to buy another long car insteat of such expensive garbage, i mean it is garbage if it leaks water even if new.
Yes! Yes! Ya-hearse! Great video, immensely satisfying to watch… so much surface area to clean, and you did such a great job! I have seen the inside of a hearse but only on sad occasions, so this was a much better experience for sure.
Love seeing cars like these getting a bath! The whole detail of unique units like this are awesome! Bring more in the future! 😎
Amazing Job! I thought for sure there was no way you could clean all that carpet, but it came out pretty nice.
This is your best one yet! It looks amazing. Worth sorting that engine! Best wishes from the 🇬🇧
Love your videos! The Hearse started life as a Cadillac Fleetwood. It was stretched by the coach builder. You have the 5.7 L V8 also used in the Buick Roadmaster and I believe the Chevrolet Camaro. Hate about the rod knock….
The LT-1 was also used in the Corvette
This car started life as a Professional Chassis. The front clip, lower cowl and front doors are standard Fleetwood pieces. The longer frame and wheelbase are from the factory.
Nice work.😊
What this Hearse needs is whitewalls!
That would really help the aesthetics. I’ve always wanted one of these to turn into a mobile digital recording studio. With large music notes and clef on outside of rear gate. Thanks guys!
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Awesome Job! I love the way you got it clean the professional way. 16 years of moss, dirt and grime Gone!
REALLY good to see you guys detail a coach! And it seems like a lot of pro-car owners and enthusiasts (I'm one) follow what y'all are doing.
Felicitaciones muchachos!!!! Impresionante recuperación!!!!! Abrazo🇦🇷
Wonderful Episode 😁
A lot of work transforming this vehicle like you guys did.
Don't stop now !!!!
Let's pull the engine and tear it down for an overhaul guys .
I'm not sure what the resale value of a Cadillac Hurse would be .
It would definitely be an interesting challenge to find out what exactly is going on with that engine and fix it.
This is awesome!
Nothing more satisfying than seeing the results of your hard work! Thanks guys for sharing! Take care!
Our pleasure!
@@WDDetailing good video....but ....NO THANKS....I DON'T MESS WITH DEAD STUFF!!!
THAT CADDY WILL GET MY BODY SOON ENOUGH
A nice Job! Looks way better! Love your cleanups!
Awesome job! The hearse is gorgeous
What a beauty, had one just like it!
You did? Lol 😂
Was it white?
I worked for 31 years for a funeral home. During that time I drove at least a half-dozen different funeral cars. If it wasn't for the huge fuel bills, I'd love to have one for a daily driver. They ride so smoothly.
As a professional car buff and funeral director I can tell you it's a 1996 Miller-Meteor Signature Series Cadillac Hearse. The "insignia(s)" on the back are a tribute the landau bars of the retractable roof designs from the old days. LT1 engine. Same as in Corvettes!
Woua !
Very impressive !
This is soo relaxing to watch, and the choice of music is great ! Nice cleaning session I love it ! I just subscribed as well
Hey guys, great job as usual! You mentioned pretreating the exterior with a "paint-safe degreaser". I don't see that listed in your resources. Is SuperClean "paint safe"? What did you use? Thanks
Wow 😮😊 Amazing job.
That's what I call Respect 😊🙏.... Great job guys.
Great example of how the light reflection changes from yellow to white after you polish it. 👍
Nice transformation. Would love to get my hands on that car and finish the job by replacing the motor and giving it many more years of life on the road.
Try any acne cream with benzoyl peroxide on that seat spot. Put on a thin coat and then let sit exposed to the sun.
amazing cleaning, gracias por compartirlo.
I bought a 1968 Pontiac hearse years ago. It looked like new. Just as long as this. Great for hauling and very comfortable. I remember that you didn't want to take a curve in the road too fast.
The s-shaped bar on the outside of the Hearse you asked about this episode is solely a payback to the 18th century when they used to have hurses that were actually horse carriages! They had a pull down canopy top, and that is to emulate the hinge that was the main support for that canopy top, it has no current meaning to the individual hearse that it's on now, but it's called an S-bar part of the Landau top. There's a little bit of history for you .
Hurst SMH
Hearse
Hurst makes shifters , that is a hearse .
@mexicanspec sorry, hearse. Talk to text is a funny thing now isn't it.
I was calling it a Hearse Shifter now was I?😉💯😄
So neat to watch these transformations. I’m curious if you could remove that barrier behind the front seats? Then remove some or all of that floor and put a big comfy back seat in there. The mounting holes may be there already. You would have a really cool Cadillac Station Wagon.
Awesome 👏 work
What an absolute gem. 👍🇬🇧
You guys are getting better and better. Love watch your videos... ;) One thing I wish you would do, is to create a coin jar... I always notice the coins left inside the cars, and would be a nice touch collecting them (even see by the end of years to come, which year was the most "lucrative" in terms of collecting those coins...) :D
They been better they are pros and certified
Great suggestion!
As a coin collector, I cringed when they vacuumed the pennies up! Some pennies are worth thousands to millions!
The coin jar is a good one! But please, wash them before dropping them in the jar!
Mouse pee and poo....ick!😂
Love the old Landau symbol on the side. you are going to have a time trying to sell that one unless you figure out that engine knock (rods are going, or gone). Truly one only gets to appreciate the interior just the once when you get your final ride! Thanks for this insight.
It looks amazing ❤❤❤
Incredible 😍
Nice job, well executed. Once that engine is running smoothly, how much are you planning to ask for it? People WILL pay for it. (Like me.)
it sounds like the rods going out that's really the only thing that is wrong with it you guys are doing a very good job 👍👍👍👍
Ótimo trabalho!!
You guys did an amazing job on this Hurst it looks great hell I would own it ... nice job guys ....
You guys are amazing that’s so enjoyable and satisfying to watch and see the changes. Well done. 👍👍
The Fact That The Car Had Coffins In It At One Point Of Time💀
You all really brought life back in to that hearse it looked great
Awesome 👍😎
That’s such a shame it was left outside
I hope you can find it a new proper home 😍😍👍👍🇦🇺
Looks absolutely fantastic
Us too!
This is a 5.7L V8, the LT-1 Corvette motor used for the Fleetwood, Caprice/Impala SS, and Roadmaster for 94, 95, and 96. This one has the folding mirrors, which was introduced for 95. If this has green coolant its a 95, red coolant its a 96
Yup a great motor. Good old dexcool, from when I had my Cadillac I always heard to flush it all out if going back to green or green had been added. Not immediate carnage but apparently they don't play well together. I kept the factory spec coolant but flushed to be safe anyway. Since the previous owner once cleared snow with a steel ice shovel I had doubts as to maintenance 😂.
@cardinaloflannagancr8929 the early formula for dexcool was awful for gaskets, then again this is when GM started to cheapen out even further wkth gasket material too. Yes all older GMs should get is flushed out completely. It's a refined formula now. But coolant formulas whether green, red or clear has come a long way from 20+ years ago.
Very satisfying to see
Enjoyed it loved it 5 thumbs up
As a gta player, I can confirm that I have saw every single inch of Cadillac Hearse.
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Nice detail. I’m sure there’s a shop in your area that can rebuild that engine. You guys got that car halfway back to work with the cleaning. It could be back to duty.
That is one of the most satisfying videos I've seen in a long time. Just found you and subscribed. Wished you were here in South Carolina I have one that would make a great video.
I love your videos!!! Can you do one on how to clean seatbelts? My car is 10 years old and though they don’t have stains on them, I read that a build up of oils and grime is probably what’s keeping them from retracting. I have no idea how to clean them though.
Spray with carpet cleaner, steamer with a brush attachment. Dry with cloth and let air dry the rest of the way. It's very simple
Great job on the front seats! I’m going to guess that the dark ring may have been caused by putting a used oil filter on the seat.
Great job guys, following from Arizona
Hopefully it’s not possessed 😅
People were dying for this detail.
This was the first video I’ve watched where a hearse was being cleaned. You did a great job on the detailing, but it’s too bad it had engine issues. ❤
Great job 👍
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Engine: 5.7 liter V8 engine[2] with fuel injection and an initial maximum output of 185 hp (138 kW) and from model year 1994 of 260 hp (194 kW), which was coupled to a four-speed automatic transmission (4L60E).
1992-96 Greetings from Germany
It's abandoned for a reason...
So? One man’s trash is another man’s treasure.
Nice to see Mike working with you
Great job, guys. I've liked and subscribed. My father had a Roadmaster wagon, same engine, same colors even, white with blue leather. His had the fake wood on the sides (Hooptie had a blue one). Thank you for your hard work.
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shouldn't you be cutting your grass
@WDDetailing have portable TV on the lawnmower
Really Good job🤩
I worked as a used car detailer for the local Chevy/Olds dealer back in the mid 1980's. It's fascinating to see the advances that have been made over the past 40 or so years. All the different equipment, chemicals, and techniques. What I would have given to have been able to do the basic cleanup of the engine bay and interior so seemingly easily. And that dual-action polisher? I want one, just for personal use on my own cars!
I love that it's back swinging out door has an internally operated door handle!
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Great job. Thanks for the calmed music.
that turned out to be amazingly good-looking wow you guys keep up the good work.
Thanks so much!
Dude did a amazing, awesome job. WOW!!😮😮
Hello guys I love your videos.
I have not only seen a hearse but I’ve driven many of them numerous times.
Back in the 80s I was an EMT on an ambulance for about five years. We also had a removal contract with the city.
Basically we would respond to emergency calls. When we arrived if the person expired and was pronounced dead we would bring our ambulance back to the garage and go back and pick them up with the Removal Car / Hearse and take them where they needed to go, funeral home, or morgue.
We would also get hired by funeral homes and private citizens to pick up the remains and take there where they needed to be.
It was an unusual experience each time.
Great job for a great car
Bonjour super rénovation de corbillard il est vraiment magnifique bravo à vous vraiment très bien 👍
I own a hearse- a 1971 Cadillac Superior coach hearse that I purchased from my manager who bought it to advertise for Spirit Halloween in my hometown. He used it from 2010 to 2015 (I think) and he abandoned it shortly after. I purchased it this year after having been sitting in a field for years and hauled it out of there. It was completely gutted behind the front bench seat, leaving a floor and frame for the casket deck. Before it was purchased by my manager, it was used in a ski resort to haul passengers up and down the mountain and was fitted with two red bench seats in the middle of the car, and it was given a trunk-like carpeted floor to store gear and equipment. I wish I knew where to find parts to restore it, but it serves as a cool bit of history with a neat story. Thought it'd be appropriate to share the story here.
And to answer your question about the bar above the rear quarters, that's a Landau bar. Served mainly for decoration throughout the years but it came from convertible roofs from funeral coaches of old when they were horse-driven. I also see this one looks like a superior coach judging by the big chrome bar separating the middle doors from the rear section.
Looks beautiful. Would live in it for sure! :)
I have owned over thirty vehicles in my lifetime, including two hearses. Okay, one was a 1963 Pontiac Bonneville Superior combo hearse, meaning that it had a dual purpose, able to function as both a hearse, and as an ambulance. I have also owned a 1968 Cadillac Fleetwood Miller Meteor hearse, which was my daily driver for several years. It had a 472 V8, and got approximately 9 mpg in the city, and 11 mpg on the highway, yet this was my favorite vehicle ever!!! I had moved to St. Louis with my then girlfriend at the time, and I took both of my hearses with me, and sold my other cars at the time. We lived there for a year, and then moved to my current location. With less than a week left in our apartment lease, my girlfriend (she had moved there a couple of months prior to my arrival) realized that the lease was up a month earlier than what she had thought. With all of the preparation for the move clear across country, I didn't locate a reasonably priced transporter for my vehicles, and was forced to sell them at the last minute. A friend purchased my Cadillac for something ridiculous like $200 or $300, only to find out a few months later that it had been stolen off the street in front of his home. That Cadillac was my favorite vehicle ever, for numerous reasons. I have been meaning to acquire another Cadillac hearse, but just haven't had much time to devote to such a search. Often, these types of vehicles will fall into your lap unexpectedly rather than acquiring that rare find before anybody else does. The little amount of time I have devoted to finding another at a decent, reasonable price, and in good working order, has yielded little results. Most of the time, somebody else beat me to some decent deal I would have purchased if I had the opportunity, or the seller is asking far too much, or at least far too much in my perspective, and won't budge at all on the asking price . . . or the vehicle is simply located too far away from my location, and I will not purchase any used vehicle sight unseen. Additionally, there are more, and more people developing a sincere interest in owning a hearse, so the whole supply and demand relation is more skewed because of more interest, and less availability, or at least less in regards to the older hearses which I have a greater fondness for. The one in this video is a model made somewhere between '93 and '96, which I wouldn't pass up at the right price, but I am drawn more towards the stylings of the older vehicles, pre-1970. I'm guessing it is a 1994 model, am I right?
It's good to see someone actually provide some loving care to these incredibly unique vehicles, rather than just letting them sit somewhere, slowly rotting away!!!
Nice restoration 😃
Amazing
Pretty cool❤⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️the same thing that made the white circle on the carpet
Very nice job
Siz bu işi çok güzel yapıyosunuz
Nice work.
A true Cadillac horn. 😂
Great job in cleaning this vehicle
I might be crazy but when I see this hearse I see a great car life vehicle. So much potential.
Hi guys ! I just discover your channel 😉 great job !! Hello from Belgium 🇧🇪😘
Beautiful coach. I own a 1983 Cadillac hearse by century coach myself. Beautiful cars
Très belle voiture très bonne restoration avec une belle peinture on attend le résultat plus de vidéo de restauration de véhicules bravo