I promise you today there'll be no mention of the Windsors, funerals or family succession dramas. Hold on. I just did! I bet you thought the royal hearse looked like a black Holden panel van with big glass windows. Nup. Wrong again. It's a Binz. Not a Mercedes-Binz but a Binz, the coach builder's hearse, on a 2006 Merc E Class. Mick Binz started his hearse business in 1936 in the town of Lorch. To keep his spirits up, Mick decided to go crazy with his copywriting, a tradition that continues today. In the spiel for the latest version of the royal family's Binz, the manner, frauenan and sonstiges of the last ride specialists, headline their ad "A forum for decorum" and "A legend's last hurrah". Interested to have one in your fleet? The Binz H4 comes with, as standard: a coffin loading area with partially electric four-track technology and decorative Nirosta stainless steel elements, magic film in white and LED ambient lighting on the coffin space ceiling in warm white. All this for $200k (plus car) including a two-year warranty. Also being passed on to King Chuck III are the late Queen's fav, a 1961 Vauxhall Cresta stationwagon with gun rack; two armoured 2002 Bentley Arnages with 300kW V8 non-electric donks; three old Rollers; some Range Rovers and a couple of stretch XJ jags. Keeping on the theme: best reason to visit Motorclassica (7-9 October 2022 Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne) is Peter Briggs' 1904 Napier L48. Peter died in June this year and his widow Robin is selling the Napier, one of Briggsy's most cherished cars. The 180kW engine was the first successful six-cylinder race engine ever built. It was good for 168km/h, held over 20 speed records. In 1999, he was invited to exhibit the Napier in the special class for important racing cars produced pre-World War I and was awarded the Automobile Quarterly prize for the most historically significant car in the event. With the interest in Edwardian Giants in the UK and races like the SF Edge Trophy at Goodwood, the car will easily find a buyer in Europe or the US, but for somewhere around $1.5m you can have it here and race it over there.