BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:NingEventWidget-v1 VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT UID:5167423:Event:115459 DTSTAMP:20260414T184258Z SUMMARY:Professional Car Society's 40th Anniversary International Meet DESCRIPTION:As the Professional Car Society is celebrating its 40th an niversary as the old car hobby’s premier advocate for authentically- preserved and presented funeral vehicles and ambulances that truly hon or the craftsmanship, aesthetic acumen and dedication of the specialis t body builders serving the emergency, livery and mortuary trades, a r ecord turnout is anticipated for the 2016 International Meet that’s being co-hosted by the PCS Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, Tri-State and Henn ey Chapters in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania from Monday-Saturday, August 1 5th-20th.\n \nThe itinerary and fees are fully-detailed on the offici al PCS website at www.TheProfessionalCarSociety.org, which also offers a downloadable registration form and a dedicated link for reserving s pecially-discounted, $109 pre-tax nightly rooms at the Wyndham Gateway Center headquarters hotel that’s conveniently-situated at 95 Presid ential Circle (online map search zip code 17325) where north-south U.S . 15 crosses under the historic U.S. 30 east-west Lincoln Highway.  A ccommodation-seekers can also phone the Wyndham directly at (717) 339- 0020 and mention the Professional Car Society, while Meet Chair John E hmer can be reached for general queries at (412) 969-7240 or vintagemo tors811@yahoo.com.  “We have hit a home run with this historic town ,” Ehmer says of Gettysburg.  “There’s so much to do within a 1 5-minute drive of our host hotel, even the full slate of tours we’ve spent two years planning won’t get to everything worth seeing and d oing.”  The official schedule will feature area antique shops and f uneral homes on Monday, August 15th; an August 16th Maryland bus tour touting the Pry House Field Hospital Museum at Antietam and the Nation al Fire Heritage Center in Emmitsburg; a fully-guided Gettysburg Battl efield tour on Wednesday, August 17th; the Antique Automobile Club of America (AACA) Museum in Hershey, PA on Thursday, August 18th; and Pre sident Dwight D. Eisenhower’s farm on August 19th, followed by a Fri day evening cruise-in encouraging local auto hobbyists to join the PCS at their hotel.    \n \nThe Professional Car Society’s formal C oncours D’Elegance on Saturday, August 20th, 2016 should nonetheless stand out as the Gettysburg Meet’s main draw, especially as the PCS ’ ambulances, limousines, flower cars, “first call” coaches, hea rses and hearse/ambulance “combinations” -  joined by unmodified civilian classics belonging to delegations of specially-invited single make car clubs - will be occupying the Gateway Center’s “high gr ound” in full view of passing Lincoln Highway motorists.  Funeral v ehicles, in strict accordance with the PCS Constitution, must be shown empty without coffins, cobwebs, skeletons or other morbid miscellany that would distract from the skilled handiwork of such esteemed specia list firms as Eureka, Flxible, Henney, Pinner, Siebert, Sayers & Scovi ll, Miller-Meteor, Cotner/Bevington and Superior.  Saturday evening's awards banquet will conclude with a dignified lights-only show by th e ambulances’ roof and fender beacons, spurring anticipation for fut ure PCS International Meets that have already been scheduled for the L ebanon, Missouri Ozarks in 2017; Detroit in 2018; the South Dakota Bla ck Hills in 2019; the Upstate New York Adirondacks in 2020; and easter n Ohio in 2021.      \n \n\nFor more information visit https:// northeastwheelsevents.com/events/professional-car-society-s-40th-anniv ersary-international-meet-1 DTSTART:20160815T160000Z DTEND:20160821T020000Z CATEGORIES:car, club, convention LOCATION:Wyndham Gateway Center hotel WEBSITE:http://www.TheProfessionalCarSociety.org URL:http://www.TheProfessionalCarSociety.org CONTACT:(412) 969-7240 ORGANIZER:John Ehmer ATTACH;FMTTYPE="image/jpeg":http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/ file/get/2284087342?profile=original ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Gregg Me rksamer":https://northeastwheelsevents.com/profile/GreggMerksamer END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR