A Grand Cherokee pulls up into the parking lot of this place. No one gets out. They just stop in the parking lot, with the car’s engine still running, and stare at the trailer behind a sparkling 2008 Harley-Davidson Road King.

Sun shines on the black fiberglass that is this trailer’s body. Details, like the lights at the front and at the back of the trailer, are silver. Clear glass on both sides lets light pass through the box. Heat rises off the black, leather-topped trailer. Wood, the color of pine, lines its floor.

But the windows are the showcase.

Crushed velvet curtains, the color of wine, hang inside the windows, softening the solemn tone of the trailer. Silver ropes trim the curves in the velvet. Scroll work, hinting at something Victorian, decorates the glass.

In the corner of each window is a sign: Woodlawn-Sosebee Funeral Home. This is the newest addition to the funeral home’s fleet – a motorcycle hearse.

“I just had to stop by and look at it,” says one woman, who pulls into this parking lot and rolls down the window in her mini-van.

She is just like the people in that Grand Cherokee. She can’t help but stare.

It’s not everyday that you see a motorcycle-drawn hearse. No wonder.

The husband-and-wife team that made this one have only made 17 others so far. Fifteen still reside in the United States. The other three were sent to far-flung places in Europe and Asia, said this funeral home’s owner, Jim Sosebee.

Tombstone Trike and Hearse is the company that makes the vehicles. It’s the creation of Jack and Patty Feather, who live in Bedford, Pa. Sosebee said the couple, who are bike enthusiasts themselves, started building the hearses after going to Tombstone, Ariz., and seeing the horse-drawn hearse that pulled the Western outlaw Josey Wales.

Sosebee learned of the Feathers’ unique venture through the wonders of the World Wide Web. But it was something that happened at his own funeral home that led him to search from something like a motorcycle hearse in the first place.

It was a funeral.

Someone had passed away. His family wanted to have the funeral within 24 hours of their loved ones’ death. And Sosebee was concerned that the family wouldn’t have enough time to publish the obituary and gather people for the funeral service.

But in the funeral business, the family’s wishes are the priority. So the funeral was scheduled.

“Less than 24 hours later, there were 66 motorcycles outside our funeral home,” Sosebee said. “That impressed us so much that we wanted to do something for those times.”

So he and his son, Rob, who is the funeral director at Woodlawn-Sosebee, started surfing the Internet. They looked for motorcycles and funerals. Something that could help them better cater to those who love motorcycles, to the people who show that dedication.

It didn’t hurt that Rob and Jim are “motorheads” themselves, loving cars, bikes and chrome.

They found, they said, what some people called a motorcycle hearse. But many of them looked tacky — simple converted trailers pulled by a motorcycle.

Then they found Tombstone Trike and Hearse.

“We were hesitant at first, to be truthful,” Jim said. “Funeral homes are traditional, and this is not traditional.”

But as with all businesses, funeral homes are changing, he said. He wants to provide as much as he can to the families he serves. He thinks the unusual hearse will appeal to bikers — and maybe others who simply see it as an unique way to take that final ride.

Two weeks ago, the Feathers delivered the finished hearse to Anderson. And since then the Sosebees have created a bit of a stir with the hearse. They were met with questions when they tried to register it with the Department of Motor Vehicles, Rob said.

“I had to send them a picture,” Rob said.

And when people see it sitting in that parking lot in front of their funeral home, they slow down or sometimes stop to get out and take a look. Jim said he saw a man come by the funeral home one day dressed casually with jeans and sneakers.

The man left, promising to be back in a minute. He returned with his wife. She had a camera, and the man had on a suit and tie, Jim said. The couple snapped some photos, the man gave Jim two thumbs up, and the couple left.

“I know some people will never use us because of where we are located,” Jim said. “But at least people will remember us. They’ll say, ‘Hey, old Sosebee. He’s the one with that motorcycle hearse.’”