About Us....
...Grave Sights Hearse Club is the best Horror rela-dead Hearse Club in the midwest. We welcome any and all hearse drivers/owners around.
...This is a place to share not only your love of hearses, but to also share tips on restoring them, projects, sell hearses, post hearse pictures, or just to talk.
...We also have a Yahoo Group for this club, and since MySpace.com has become so popular, we now have a MySpace group AND a MySpace profile for Grave Sights, too. These groups are just another limb from the old dead tree in the Grave Sights Cemetery...so-to-speak. They can be found at the following adresses...

Yahoo Group for Grave Sights: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GraveSights/
MySpace Profile for Grave Sights: http://www.myspace.com/158363493
MySpace Group for Grave Sights: http://groups.myspace.com/gravesightshearseclub

...Please join us for our many hearse activities that we have from spring to late fall such as our monthly hearse night at the drive-in movies, our usual hearse picnics in June and our yearly hearse rally every August. And we can't forget our Halloween activities at haunted house attractions every October! Bring your hearse, wife, kids, caskets, coffins, skeletons and corpses. "All are welcome - All are welcome... Come into the light"
...Membership is free with no fees or limitations. All we ask is that you behave and respect others. We will not hesitate to remove anyone from this club who is threatening, cruel or disrespectful of others in this group.
...This club is for hearse enthusiests, not a pick up place for cyber freaks or other non-related crap!

....was formed on October 31, All Hallow's Eve (Halloween night) of 2000 by (Scary) Perry Claeys.

....Perry, a part-time employee at a funeral home, a local musician & hearse owner, wanted to start a hearse club in his hometown of Kenosha, Wiscon-sin, as a way of meeting other hearse owners and enthusiasts who also enjoy his love for hearses, horror movies, Halloween (of corpse), and other funeral related subjects.

....It all started when Claeys was talking to his good fiend and fellow hearse owner, (Morbid) Matt Dunham of Union Grove, Wisconsin, about some rules that some hearse clubs have, such as they might require that you reside in the same state as the club, or might even have a fee to join. They both belonged to a couple other hearses clubs, and couldn't understand why anyone would have any rules or limits when it comes to enjoying these grave/great vehicles? The only thing that should matter is that your love of hearses! That's it. And if you have the guts to actually buy and drive one....MORE POWER TO YOU!

....That's when Claeys & Dunham decided that they should start a hearse club of their own. But they wanted to offer a hearse club to the public with no limits, no fees, or anything that would prevent ANYONE from joining if they so desired to. As long as you own a hearse, flower car, or a hearse-style ambulance, that's all they cared about, and it didn't matter where you live, either! And with the then closing of the Midwest Hearse Society, there wouldn't be another hearse club in Wisconsin.

....Dunham, a graduate of web design, had also occasionally rented his hearse out for proms and such with his custom painted hearse, when the rear compartment was converted limo-style with enough seats to sit 6.

....Scary Perry already had a one-page website which was used for his hearse rental business, which was called Grave Sights Hearse Rental. So Claeys and Dunham decided to use that name also for the new hearse club. It was decided that Perry would be the founder and president, with Matt as the co-president.

....Claeys, who's owned eight hearses so far, wanted to combine the new hearse club with his love for Halloween, so that's why you'll see horror rela-dead graphics on allot of the pages here (not to mention many humorous but twisted puns).

....About a year later, another hearse driving buddy of Perry's named (Psycho) Steve Andersen, also from Kenosha, climbed aboard the Grave Sights funeral procession (so-to-speak) as the club's Vice President. Andersen had over 25 years experience at NAPA and Bumper-To-Bumper Auto Parts for many years and has a vast knowledge of Cadillacs. Other than his 1963 Cadillac Hearse, he's also owned a vintage 1951 Cadillac Deville, 1968 Chevy Impala, and other vintage automobiles.

...Because of his constant club support with activities, donations, supplies, ect..."Morbid" Mike Laufenberg of Wautoma, WI., two-time winner of Grave Sights "Most Dead-icated Member award, was elected to the position of Club Chairman during the winter of 2006. Mike, who has the Grave Sights Logo tattoo'd on his upper back, has owned over ten hearses. In addition, Mike also saved Perry's life in June of 2006.

....Two of Perry's grandfathers also worked for various funeral homes. Perry had planned to go into the funeral business himself, but a near-fatal auto accident that left him handicapped changed any plans for a career. Perry still suffers complications from the 1989 accident, and is under constant medical treatments. He now works as a funeral assistant at a local funeral home.

...."We do not consider ourselves sick or morbid." Claeys stated. "Some people are into 57' Chevy's, some are into Mustangs, Corvette's or Mopars. ...we're into hearses. We are not making fun of death, nor do we worship Satan! We are simply a fun loving group of people who love hearses, and want to have a grave time with them. We are not asking you to like us. We welcome the stares as we're sitting at stoplights. Whether it comes with a thumbs-up, or the middle finger - we laugh...because we know that everyone is a bit curious about hearses, whether they admit it or not." And we know that you, yourself, are somewhat curious. If you weren't, you wouldn't be here reading this. Right?

....As Andersen once stated, "The hearse is just a vehicle....it's part of automotive history like any other vehicle. There's no reason to feel weird or uneasy about them. Nobody has ever died in a hearse. People aren't afraid of ambulances, and look how many people pass away in those."

.... We realize that this site and/or it's contents are not for everyone. If we've offended anyone in anyway, we deeply apologize. Death is a part of life. We simply choose to enjoy a little of both in our own way. As we said before, we are not Satanists, necrophiliacs or sick minded people. We just enjoy these vehicles just as much as people love other automobiles. We fully respect the funeral industry and all those involved. The fine craftsmanship, body styles, details & other features make them just as much a part of automotive history as any other vehicle.

....And why shouldn't we appreciate these automobiles? The hearse is the oldest vehicle in the world, dating back hundreds of years to the horse-drawn hearse of days past.

....As the saying goes; "Everyone rides in a hearse at least once, whether they want to or not." In the words of actress Linda Blair of The Exorcist,
"Drive a hearse...and turn some heads!"