Meet the Man Who Built the Jaguar E-Type Hearse

From Road & Track

Harold and Maude is an excellent black comedy from 1971, in which a rich kid obsessed with death gets a brand new Jaguar XK-E in exchange for his Cadillac hearse, which his mother decided to junk in the name of humanity. You can guess what Harold does next.

Unfortunately, the 1965 original was driven off a cliff at the end of the movie, and somehow, nobody decided to revisit the idea until 2012. Unsurprisingly, what took Harold two movie days turned into a four year project in real life, starting with Ken Roberts spending a fortune figuring out what car they took the roof from to make the original hearse.

Turns out, the donor was some sort of a Japanese import, which they managed to hunt down, turning the XK-E into a hearse just like the movie's crew did back in 1970. Today, the world's only (known) Harold and Maude Jaguar resides in California.

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