Elsewhere today is a post about the movie "Harold and Maude". Coincidentally, in that movie Harold, a rich kid with a fascination with death, had his Cadillac hearse sold by his mother when he wasn't at home, and she bought him a Jaguar XK-E, thinking it will help him pick up girls. He immediately gets out his welding gear and converts it into a hearse. Sadly, at the end of the move the hearse is destroyed - this movie having been made in 1968 - "Before CGI" - so, no special effects - they really had to drive it off a cliff.