A professional car in modern times is an automobile that has been modified with extensive coachwork for service in livery transportation (i.e., as a limousine) or in funeral home operations (hearses or flower cars).

Up until c. 1980 ambulances were also available on professional car chassis such as Cadillac and Oldsmobile, as were combination cars that could be utilized either as an ambulance, a first call vehicle, or as a hearse. Since that time, most new vehicles built in the U.S. to serve as ambulances have been based upon vans, cutaway van chassis, or fitted with modular bodies on truck chassis, and provide greater space for patient care and equipment than in the past.

[edit] External links

• www.Professionalcarsociety.org The Official Website of the premier professional car club, the Professional Car Society. The Professional Car Society was found in 1977, and has over 1100 members world wide. For general or technical information, you can't find a better source than the members of the Professional Car Society.

• www.Professionalcar.org An enthusiast community specializing in hearses, flower cars, car-based ambulances, limousines
• Professional Oldsmobiles

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