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If you visit some hearse dealerships in your area, you’re almost certain to find one of many Cadillac hearses for sale that you can purchase and restore. But if you’ve never restored a hearse, you might not know the best way to go about accomplishing your goal.

Know What You Own
The first and most important step to restoring your hearse is to know the type of hearse you own. Find out the make and model as well as the year. You’ll need all of this information for ordering parts and finding manuals on how to fix the engine and other mechanical aspects of the car.

Be Prepared for Research
Older hearses are more difficult to restore because parts aren’t as readily available as they are for newer hearses. But you usually can find newer models at hearse dealerships because they are still being used by funeral homes. Be prepared to research your particular year and various places that specialize in parts for older cars.

Consult Professionals
If you know how to do vehicle restoration, you can probably restore a hearse yourself with the owner’s manual. Most car manufacturers have manuals for every make, model and year that they produced and you can get a copy for a small fee. If you don’t have any experience with cars, though, you can also ask a trusted mechanic to do the restoration for you.

Have Fun
If you’re the type of person that buys a coach from one of your local hearse dealerships just for personal use, you probably already have a good sense of humor. Don’t let restoring a hearse rob you of that. Have fun while working on it. Make it an event for your family or your friends to enjoy it even more. It’s your project so do what you like.

Being a funeral director is, in many ways, an occupation that many folks just don’t understand. Unfortunately, they can’t get beyond thoughts of loss, and rarely take the time to think about life as a funeral director.

One of the things that people outside of the funeral industry rarely consider is the gas mileage of a hearse. Funeral coaches are sizable cars, and they require quite a bit of gas to get them from here to there.

Take, for example, the 2008 Cadillac Funeral Coach. This Cadillac Hearse gets around 13 miles per gallon in town, or 18 miles per gallon on the highway. Of course, most of the miles you put on your Cadillac hearse are going to be in town miles.

There are some ways you can improve the fuel economy of your hearse, however. For starters, you can make sure your tires are always inflated to the right level, and not over- or under- inflated. Keeping nice, newer tires on your hearse is probably good for business, as well. Regularly changing the air filter in your Cadillac Hearse should help maximize fuel economy, too.

While you can’t really do anything about the fact that you’re doing so much city driving instead of highway driving in your hearse, taking these couple of small measures can help increase your mileage, at least a little bit.

In the automaker’s latest efforts to release more fuel-efficient models, new GMC 2008 models of the Saturn Aura sedan have new engines to give you more miles to the gallon. With homogenous charge compression ignition (HCCI) technology, drivers can expect a 15 percent increase in their fuel economy when combined with other features designed to save gas. These GMC 2008 models operate on HCCI technology when idling and at about 55 mph. It also operates under heavy loads. It works by reducing pumping losses and burning fuel faster at temperatures lower than normal. Here are some advantages of the GMC 2008 HCCI technology:

• More efficiency
• Uses proven gasoline direct-injection
• Adaptable to traditional gasoline engines
• Compatible with currently available fuels

According to Tom Stephens, GMC is “beginning to see how we can make this technology a real benefit for consumers. By combining HCCI with other advanced gasoline engine and control technologies, we can deliver a good fuel savings value for consumers.”

Once these new models become available on the market, you can get one from your local GMC dealer and start enjoying a better fuel economy. Who wouldn’t like that?