Originally, they left the production line looking this way: Look at it now: https://classicvirus.com/2015/10/06/bare-minimum-1957-fiat-multipla-hearse-by-allemano/
Doesn't even look like the same model. Would the squared-off one be an off-shoot of the original - sort of buying an extended model Ford Econoline?
I'm surprised that I had to look it up specifically as a van, to get images to show up. It indeed looks factory: I'm not sure if the 600T pictured was simultaneously built with the Multipla. But, if it was, the hearse might have been a hybrid, using components from both, just like Canadian Pontiacs were: This one's so well done that I can't tell if it's original or not: Even, the Fiat 5oo had a rare panel delivery version:
Wow. Just, wow. I'd think the Town Car could've been used to transport the bereaved, not turned into a Hollyweird sculpture.
Whatever it is, it reminds me of that European early Fifties Buick hearse with the really big 'glass house' body, which was apparently converted over in Europe.
I need to see if I can find pics of my old '67 Plymouth Belvedere I six-passenger wagon that I bought in 1990 in Belgium. It was sold new in Brussels as a funeral car to a mortician, whose brother also bought an identical car. A third identical car was sold to a funeral home in Malmo, Sweden at the same time. All three were black with light blue interior, 225 Six with three-speed on the column. No radio. All had Hemi XHD suspensions, 11x3 brakes, carpet, and non-power steering and brakes.
Considering you're only driving 15 MPH when in a procession, you don't need much in Armstrong steering or braking.
Save weight, through casting the obsolete bumper jack overboard. I hope the passenger didn't have breakfast, that morning
Passengers have been known to sometimes get up. The one in there more than likely enjoyed a spicey breakfast, besides