This 1983 Cadillac Fleetwood Flower Car Is Begging To Be Made Into A Hot Rod – How Would You Build It?


This 1983 Cadillac Fleetwood Flower Car Is Begging To Be Made Into A Hot Rod – How Would You Build It?
Nothing freaks out the neighbors quite like parking a car normally used for a funeral in the driveway, does it? Even if it isn’t the car that actually carried the body, just knowing that your daily driver was owned by a funeral home is enough to elicit weird looks from the neighbors and all sorts of rumors at the Housing Authority. Just in case bringing the kids to school in a hearse wasn’t enough for your twisted and demented mind, we present to you a Cadillac flower car. Calling it an “El Camino” just doesn’t do this Cadillac justice. Based upon Cadillac’s Commercial Chassis version of the Brougham, the flower car was meant to haul all of the flowers at the funeral out to the final resting plot. The bed was usually lined in stainless steel to prevent rust, and in the case of this particular car, it appears that the second set of doors might open up to a storage compartment under the “bed” floor, making this a useful and interesting take. We’re not quite wild about the bed treatment, but hey…you’ve got a Cadillac pickup that isn’t a blinged-out Escalade. The seller seems to be a pretty upfront and easy to deal with individual, too. Just check out his ad:
JUST SPENT A SMALL BOATLOAD ON THE BODY AND PAINT. BEAUTIFUL BLACK PAINT AND RED PINSTRIPE. SOLID BODY NO RUST. Red Leather interior. I’ll get some more pics after the snow melts. 80K + original miles. I purchased from a collector several months ago. He had several hearses but this was the only flower car he had and the only one I’ve seen in a LONG TIME. The cabin fever is getting to me after Snowmageddon passed through so I am taking some down time to list this car before listing on that other auction site. I have pics of this car from a few different times, but seeing and driving in person is the best way to get the best idea of how cool this car is. It is a 1983 Cadillac Sedan DeVille with the 4.1 litre V8 engine. 
It has been factory modified as a flower car typically see on the east coast, Chicago and west coast in traditional funeral services. This vehicle would follow the hearse and carry all the flowers from the funeral service to the grave side. It is a totally cool car and always gets lots of looks at flower cars are not used here in this local area. All four doors still open and the back looks just like it would with the carpet, just no seat. 
Entire rear is stainless steel and could be used as an awesome tailgate car or beer cooler in the bed with beer storage in the back inside the car behind the drivers seat. The front seat is a bench seat and this car will seat three people. Runs and drives great. Try and imagine this with a set of 22’s or 26’s! OR just drive as is and get lots of attention. Currently in my garage and will remain there until the Abominable Snow man gets out of my driveway. Clear KY title in my name. Ready to drive. 
RULES FOR NEGOTIATION:
1. SHOW UP
2. SHOW UP WITH CASH
3. MAKE AN OFFER
4. TEXT IS FOR INFO AND TO MAKE APPOINTMENT TO SEE CAR. NO OFFERS WILL BE CONSIDERED VIA TEXT. REFER TO RULE #1. 
5. I MIGHT TRADE FOR SOMETHING SIMILARLY UNIQUE AND INTERESTING.
Thanks,
Murray

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8 thoughts on “This 1983 Cadillac Fleetwood Flower Car Is Begging To Be Made Into A Hot Rod – How Would You Build It?

  1. C Royer

    Make the bed look like a finished fleetside style thing and have an awesome tow car–yeah thats the plan

  2. ColoradoKid

    #1 Clean up the rear bed area and make it more a CadilMino

    #2 Shove the largest damn big block under the hood you can afford … built to the nines with driveline to match

    #3 Revamp the overall suspension so’s the damn thing can at least sort of handle

    And then say Beep Beep my @$& to every Asthmatic Kitty [ Hellcat ] you run across .. which won’t be many in light of the lousy sales .. along with most every other new ‘ Muscle Car ‘ … laughing your @$& off while the other driver’s crying in his/her steering wheel .

    Even better if he’s got his lady with him … as listening to her ask why in the hell some Funeral lump just kicked his $50,000 plus rear end

    1. 75Duster

      You really need to lay off of that Colorado dope, if your wife would let you buy this Cadillac you would need it to sell your crappy cd’s out of it at Denver’s finest flea markets, instead of using her Mercedes SUV.
      With this Cadillac you would be able to fit you and your ego into it as well as your many Bangshift aliases.

    2. mooseface

      “And then say Beep Beep my @$& to every Asthmatic Kitty [ Hellcat ] you run across .. which won’t be many in light of the lousy sales .”
      I call a HUGE bullsh!t on that. I’ve now read several articles that say it’s all FCA can do to keep the Hellcats on the lot, and the that waiting list at the time of release was sky high.
      Do you honestly check your facts at all, or do you just like to spew out whatever stream-of-consciousness malarkey comes to mind?
      Are you SO desperate for attention that you play the role of the perpetual internet naysayer just so people will respond to this crap as a substitute for quality human interaction?

  3. anthony

    My good friend has a mint Buick Hearse. Drove it to my house once. Parked it right out front, it creeped me out, told him never bring it here again. This thing is at least useful,good to carry bikes or parts runnet for a shop. Might have 4100 so be careful.

  4. C.M.Bendig

    it’s a Z chassis Commercial Short Cowl Fleetwood not a Deville. It is the same base as a Herse. It is not a ‘factory’ conversion by GM rather a coach builder conversion. Again like a Herse, it would have been built by the same couch builders to Order.

    That said the the Extra tall tail section was either ordered or added on. For other then flower hauling it should be removed.

    To go away from the 4.1L is a major operation. It would likely be less work to put a LS1 & 4L60-E in then it would be to go with the old Cadillac 500.

  5. Chevy Hatin' Mad Geordie

    Make a pick up version of that awesome Bonneville Caddy!

    A sheet aluminium wing on the back of the bed would look great – mind you could plant some of that Colorado dope in there as well!

  6. Stewzer55

    I think Commercial Chassis Cadlillacs never got the HT4100 and stayed with the 368 Cadillac, TH400 and bigger rear end. But reading the seller’s ad, this is based upon a Sedan DeVille and has the HT4100, 200 4R and small rear end. They also think it should be donked.

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