Business: Funeral
Drag Hearse   (+3)  [vote for, against]
From 0-60 in 7 Seconds; from church to grave in the same 7

I fancy myself a velocity-fiend in this life, and would have nothing less if I should pass to that "Big race track in the sky." The concept is to have a hearse that could accomodate roughly 13-second quarter-mile times. Thus providing the perfect close to a life of speed. However, it may be a good idea to have the funeral home at the end of a pre-established drag strip as to avoid moving violations. I'm talkin alcohol-injected, mandatory wheelie bars and drag chutes. The works. and at LEAST one 100mph + run down the strip. It would make the phrase "I wouldn't be caught dead in that car" expression to a new morbid level, but you wouldn't have to worry -- you're dead in a hot rod!
-- Letsbuildafort, Aug 27 2003

Li'l Coffin http://www.showrods...ges/lil_coffin.html
Go in style. [wombat, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 05 2004]

Dragster Hearse http://www.geocities.com/motorcity/9068/
[wombat, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 05 2004]

+ "It wasn't the cough that carried him off....."
Good Stuff!
-- gnomethang, Aug 27 2003


I went banger racing on Sunday and there were two hearses taking part. One towing a caravan., Now that would be a send off.
-- oneoffdave, Aug 27 2003


Previously halfbaked in 1964 by the TV show "The Munsters".
-- krelnik, Aug 27 2003


I would imagine its not as easy as it seems -- all the expensive corpse-retention equipment, and what if the casket wasn't buckled in right, and went FLYING from the windshield as the drogue chutes deployed ... but you're right -- "ya only die once" --
-- Letsbuildafort, Aug 27 2003


Why?
-- DesertFox, May 10 2004


Letsbuildafort, you're missing the point... You DELIBERATELY don't secure the coffin, so that at the end of the run you are flung at high velocity through a specially made hatch in the front of the hearse straight into your waiting grave.
-- 5th Earth, May 10 2004


Well then you'd have to get specially trained drivers and what not. For an extra fee of course.
-- Letsbuildafort, May 11 2004


Better than through the front would be if the hearse in question were a side-loader and the driver made a j-turn right in front of the plot.
-- justaguy, May 11 2004


//if I should pass to that "Big race track in the sky."//

IF? What are the alternatives?
-- English Bob, May 12 2004



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