Others have explained what is a flower car. They came into use because, except for maybe, south of the Mason-Dixon line, a funeral director wouldn't want to haul flowers, and other hardware to the cemetary in a pickup truck. This is slightly off-topic, but somewhat related. My past experience with another professional car was good. In 1968 as we were preparing to graduate from college and lose our II-S draft status, my college roommate and I decided we wanted to take a driving tour through the western U.S. from Indiana. He owned a Rambler Classic station wagon (hey, Tom J.) and I had a 56 Chevy Bel Air. We decided we wanted to try to find a hearse or ambulance for the trip since it should be comfortable to drive and would provide all the room we would need, e.g, no tent on the ground at night and few motel bills.) I ended up buying a 1955 Pontiac ambulance from a professional car dealer in Indianapolis. I paid $250 for the car. It was made by Superior Coach. It had only 17,000 miles on it and ran so smoothly that you had to watch the engine gauges to make sure it was actually running. We put 6,000 miles on that car in the two weeks of our trip. We drove all the way to Washington state and turned south, later ending up on U.S. 1. The siren and the bubble gum machine red light on the roof had been removed as had the flashing red "fog" lights in the grille. The latter had been replaced with amber lenses. On the CA coast we turned on these amber fog lamps and cars began pulling over in front of us, thinking we were an ambulance on an emergency run. It was a great trip and a great car. Haight-Asbury in a vintage Pontiac ambulance in 1968 was an experience. Joe Fulton Salinas, CA