Thank you very much for visiting my online virtual tribute web site to the McCabe-Powers Body Company.  My name is Christopher GM Powers and I am the son of Edward J. Powers, III, and great-grandson to Edward J. Powers, Sr.  While this company no longer exists, it lives on in the memories of those who worked for and with my family to build quality vehicles for over a century.

This tribute to McCabe-Powers would not have been possible without the generous donations by the following people:  Corky Kinyon, Carolyn Powers Dowd, Thomas Eppler and Mr. & Mrs. Warren Hertfelder.  Another reference book was purchased from  AutoLit.Com, a 1922 McCabe-Powers catalogue displaying hearse and ambulance bodies. 

Please visit McLellan's Automotive History Web Site, it is one of the historical automobile sites on the Internet.  I recently discovered this great web site which has over 30,000 pieces of automotive literature, and occasionally they have McCabe-Powers literature (operational manuals or sales literature).

While researching McCabe Powers on the Internet, a few years ago we found this very well written article by Teresa Bland, about a McCabe Powers Hearse.

Please contact me if you have any questions, comments, or suggestions regarding McCabe-Powers and or the Powers Family.  If you were a member of the family of anyone who had worked for McCabe Powers, I especially would love to hear from you.

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NEWS UPDATE: Over the past year (or two) we have gotten a handful of request for parts/service of the greatly aging vehicles that were once built by McCabe-Powers Body Company. As you know, there was a foreclosure in the early 1980s and the remaining parts were sold off and resold a couple times since then.

A few years ago, a company offered parts & maintained the McCabePowers.Com website. They were located somewhere in Texas. Its been a few years since we've had contact with them, and several others have not been able to reach them either. It is also noted that McCabePowers.Com is now offline and the domain has expired as of June, 2006.

I do not anticipate ever hearing from them again, as I am sure there are probably no more parts to be found. After all, the vehicles are now gaining on twenty-five years of age on the last built vehicles. I wish everyone the best of luck in finding parts and I regret not having better news.

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Please send all comments (non parts/service related) to cgmp@cgmp.org, and I will contact you as soon as possible.