JFK Hearse at Barrett Jackson

[TR Custom Parts]

Sorry, meant to say AMBULANCE not Hearse! Anyone following this? Interesting...................The JFK Ambulance Is A Fake

Remember actually watching the scene with the hearse on TV. Seem to remember Jackie K not being able to open the side door to it.

 

[GNBRETT]

if I remember correctly the Hearse did not sell when it went for auction. I believe the reserve was $1 million. it hit $900k I think tho. not sure y anyone would want a fake ambulance tho

 

[PLAINWHITE T]

Interesting that the thing sold for $132,000 and even B/J couldn't say for sure if it was the one that carried his body or not. I was intrigued with the story, even though it is a bit morbid.

 

[TR Custom Parts]

Seems like just about anything associated with the JFK assassination has controversy. Remember that day like it was yesterday, was in 3rd grade and all the teachers started crying.

 

[joemama]

The hearse is for sale on ebay now. Was looking at old Caddys and stumbled upon it.

 

[joemama]

Cadillac - eBay (item 320641893320 end time Feb-01-11 13:40:02 PST)

 

[2QUIK6]

Yeah a local Cemetary just auctioned off Oswald's old casket that he was originally buried in (He was dug up in the 80's to verify it was him due to controversy)...and now Oswald's brother is sueing the cemetary as he never knew the original casket still existed, claiming he paid for it and is it's rightful owner, just read about it this week.

Seemed that the vin#s all matched what was in the paperwork the owner had dug up from the Naval archives...there was also a decoy ambulance used, that may have been the one crushed in the pics. PHS verified the engine serial# matched the vin# of the car at BJ and the vin# was the one in the naval docs...seemed like enough proof to me.

 

[Dennis Kirban]

Seems like just about anything associated with the JFK assassination has controversy. Remember that day like it was yesterday, was in 3rd grade and all the teachers started crying.

I remember it vividly since I had run away from home the day before taking my car...I was driving through downtown St Louis Missouri when the newspaper truck drivers where simply telling people at intersections....the next day I drove thru Texas.....eventually was picked up in Gallup, New Mexico as my Dad had reported the car stolen.....even though it was in my name alone at age 16.....

had to attend summer school that following year to make up zeros in class.

Elvis was the other big name most people remember where and what they were doing when he died....

On the ambulance their is no positive proof. Go back earlier and one of the famous lost cars from the 1950s was the James Dean Porsche that somehow disappeared.

Its weird what becomes valuable in later times.....I believe they even tried to sell Oswalds coffin a few weeks back.

denniskirban@yahoo.com

 

[Dennis Kirban]

I think their is some confusion from what is currently on ebay is a Caddy Hearst related to JFK and what was at Barrett Jackson this weekend was the Navy Ambulance which was a Pontiac used in Texas when he was shot. Two different vehicles tied into that fateful historic event.

denniskirban@yahoo.com

 

[TR Custom Parts]

I messed up on the title of this thread but you can't change it. Put hearse by mistake, associate anything with a coffin in it as a hearse but quickly realized my screwup.

 

[GNRick]

My aunt and uncle are buried in same cemetary as Jack Ruby, if that means anything. I friend of mine made a funny video for U-Tube-he went to Los Angeles for a wedding and located Curly's grave (of three stooges fame). Someone had placed stones in a shape to spell out nyuck . This is a similar video: YouTube - Curly Howard Gravesite

Now back to our regularly scheduled program....

 

[Rivical]

Why do people go to such great lengths to continue the controversey surrounding the JFK death? It was very interesting to notice descrepencies of the crusher pics as found in the replies. Alleged photoshopping, and the modern cell phone clearly obvious to be clipped to the belt of one of the witnesses on scene.
Not noted, but I question the contemporarity of the machine doing the crushing in the photo's.

They're never going to let definitive answers come to this event in our history.

If the car's numbers pass an x-ray examination, I'd go with them. But from my Corvette knowledge, I wouldn't go with them until such diligence had been performed.


On a side note. I used to own the identical model Hearse which carried Marylin Monroe. A 1962 Cadillac Eureka Landau 3-way. In my opinion the most attractive modern coach car ever built.

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