Hearse clubs are a bit different from "normal" classic car clubs. The usual way a car club gets started is that half the members in an established club decide that they hate the sight and viscera of the other half, so they stomp off and start a competing club.

By contrast, hearse clubs are usually started by one or two people. They sometimes find that they and their huge cars aren't welcome elsewhere, they might even find themselves hearsecuted. Even if they find a local car club that tolerates them, they get impatient with debates about which sort of fuzzy dice to hang from the mirror of your '57 Bel Aire. They get tired of the blank looks when they say how much they wish they could have an electric 3-way. They want to hold forth on the great casket controversy, or kvetch about how uncomfortable those pesky casket rollers can be. So they hit the road hoping to flush out fellow hearse owners and show others just how fun owning a retired hearse can be.

Eerie Shores was started in the Spring of 2003. The website and membership will grow, we'll be famous for our daring special events, and have a great logo. But you've got to start somewhere!

Why Eerie Shores and the nautical theme? Well, for one thing, just about every possible nickname for hearse has been used! People often refer to large cars as "boats" and go cruising. So to be a little bit different, we're named for the fictional lakeside Eerie Shores Memorial Amusment Park. See- you don't usually have cemetaries on a lake shore because of storms, soil erosion, and oh, never mind! One of the classic bad ideas that never was...

So stop by from time to time and see what we're up to. Unlike many areas of the country, it's easy as pie to get a hearse around here (all the trade-ins to the coach builders in Ohio), so if you don't have one and you think you should, we can help!