MECHANICSBURG, Ohio -- An Ohio man who loved riding his motorcycle was buried Friday in a giant Plexiglas and wooden box where his body rested astride a 1967 Harley Davidson.

The body of Bill Standley, 82, was on display that way during his funeral service in Mechanicsburg, Ohio.

Standley's family said he'd been talking about being buried this way for years, and he'd often invite people to a garage to show off the unusual casket his two sons had built for him. He told people he didn't just want to ride off to heaven; he wanted the world to see him do it in the big see-through box.

David Vernon, director at the Skillman, McDonald and Vernon Funeral Home in Mechanicsburg, told The Columbus Dispatch that he agreed 18 years ago to Standley's request to be buried on his motorcycle -- but with one stipulation.

"I told him, 'I have no problem doing this for you, but I don't want you to come off that motorcycle,' " Vernon told the newspaper.

Standley and his sons created a special brace that went up his back and around his ribcage to hold the body in place.

He also won permission from the Champaign County Board of Health to be buried on the bike.

A crane was used to lower the casket into the ground.