You can’t take it with you, as they say, so you might as well enjoy it while you can – and that’s exactly what the owner of this Buick Hearse is doing after swapping in a four-figure LS6 V8 engine.
Coming to us from the official Holley YouTube channel, this brief video features Jason Pickett and his LS-powered 1993 Buick Hearse. Pickett brought his unique racer out to LS Fest West in Las Vegas, where it managed to run a new personal best of 8.51 at 160 mph, and now, we’re getting under the skin to see what makes it tick.
A resident of Holt, Colorado, Pickett didn’t set out to build a drag racing Buick Hearse, but after poking around and weighing a few other options, the idea was too good to pass up.
“I helped my buddy with his Mustang quite a few times, and just decided I needed to build something,” Pickett explains. “We were looking around the track trying to find something unique, something different, and kinda starting leaning towards a station wagon, and then somehow a hearse came to mind.”
Making the go is a 2002 LS6 V8 engine, which was stroked to 383 cubic inches. Pickett also added a ProCharger system, plus Holley Dominator EFI to keep it running right. Now, this Buick Hearse is packing more than 1,000 horsepower, and it looks good too, with a purple finish for select components like the valve covers and supercharger – a nice complement for the undead theme.
Outside, we spot a flat black exterior, while the landau bars are kept in profile for extra style points.
Inside, it’s all business, with this Buick Hearse racecar fully gutted with a pair of racing buckets and extensive cage work. There’s also what appears to be a coffin for the ignition.
Now, this Buick Hearse is appropriately dubbed “Haulin Ash,” and haul it does, blistering the quarter mile at a scary-fast pace. See for yourself in the two-minute video below.
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Comments
That’s one interesting car. The article and the guy speaking says a Buick, yet the front clip is off a Caprice Chevy and the tail lamps are from the same era Cadillac Brougham.
Pretty cool! Too bad his opponent came in dead last… probably from coffin up his smoke. But seriously, cool ride and a sleeper at that!
The community college where I teach has an ’80s Buick hearse for the funeral services program. I don’t think they’ll let me borrow it for Halloween parties.
Great Idea! But why the hurry? All hearses head to the same place-the final destination.All joking aside, I do like this dragster. His license plate should read,” YOU’RE NEXT “.Great article. Robert Levins.
When you drag race, have the back door fly open have a coffin slide out of the hearst …maybe on wheels.
I can’t think of a faster way to get to heaven lol!!
Biden riding comfortably in the back
Had a friend who had a 71 Caddie hearse. Don’t remember the engine stats on it, but she loved to beat the nuts off of the little street racing crowd we hung out on the edge of. It was even more fun when she would wait for some very high end sports cars to start to pass an then start speed up ( not all people just the ones who sneered at her car) most cars could’t pass her, and getting the finger from the broken egos, Priceless!