Memento Mori

Over the weekend, the Mohnton Professional Car Club – professional car being the softer term used in the funerary business to refer to hearses, limos, flower cars, as well as ambulances – held its annual car and hearse show at Philadelphia’s Laurel Hill Cemetery, one of the most picturesque and ghoulish places within city limits. I stopped by briefly with the family (seriously, though, who brings a toddler to a hearse show?) to check out the wild mix of hearses adorned with all the goth-style trimmings. The show stealer, of course, was FYNLRYD, a modified Pontiac Superior thought to be one of the few known hot rod hearses on the East Coast. I always joke to my wife that I want to be cremated and shot out of a cannon, but coming screaming into a cemetery in a hot rod could be just as fun.

Here’s a little more on the show from over at Newsworks … More images TK as soon as I catch up on processing!