BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:NingEventWidget-v1 VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Pacific/Midway X-LIC-LOCATION:Pacific/Midway BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-1100 TZOFFSETTO:-1100 TZNAME:SST DTSTART:19700101T000000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:5072275:Event:1049864 DTSTAMP:20260423T164007Z SUMMARY:Professional Car Society's 41st Annual International Meet DESCRIPTION:Anyone able to appreciate the aesthetics and fine craftsma nship of classic, exquisitely-restored funeral vehicles, ambulances an d livery-type limousines will want to be in Lebanon, Missouri from Jul y 19th-22nd, 2017 for the Professional Car Society’s 41st Annual Int ernational Meet, especially as this historic U.S. 66 Ozarks town and l ocal mortician Kenneth Howe have successfully hosted this event twice previously in 1992 and 2001.  This year’s Hampton Inn (417-533-3100 ) headquarters hotel, located at 930 Ivey Lane off West Elm Street, wi ll be offering a special $95 nightly pre-tax room rate to callers ment ioning the PCS International Meet, and attendees can also opt for the adjacent Holiday Inn Express (417-532-1111, $95-up) and Super 8 Motel (417-588-2574, $82-up).   The closest major airports to Lebanon on t he Interstate 44 corridor are Springfield-Branson (SGF) an hour southw est and St. Louis International (STL) 2.5 hours to the northeast, whil e Kansas City International (MCI) is another option 3.5 hours northwes t and Greyhound offers direct bus service.\n \nA downloadable registr ation form detailing the meet’s itinerary and activity fees can be f ound on the official PCS website at www.TheProfessionalCarSociety.org, and Ken Howe is happy to field prospective attendee queries at (417) 594-4061 or kennethhowe1933@gmail.com.   The first event scheduled i s a 4 pm Wednesday welcome tour of his Holman-Howe Funeral Home, follo wed by an all day Thursday luxury bus trip to Branson’s Silver Dolla r City theme park and Dolly Parton’s Dixie Stampede Theater and a 4 pm Friday “pro-car” procession to the Evergreen Historical Automob iles collection.   PCS Lebanon’s Main Event, nonetheless, will be the 10am-3pm Saturday Car Show inside the climate-controlled Kenneth E . Cowan Civic Center at 500 East Elm Street, as The Show Me State’s auto enthusiasts may never get a better chance to admire the creations of such skilled hearse, ambulance and livery vehicle builders as Eure ka, Flxible, Henney, Pinner, Siebert, Sayers & Scovill, Miller-Meteor, Cotner/Bevington, Armbruster/Stageway and Superior.   All exhibit c ars must have wheel chocks and fire extinguishers and be shown without coffins, cobwebs, skeletons or other morbid distractions in deference to PCS Constitution provisions that do permit funeral vehicles with f loral arrangements and authentic rescue gear inside ambulances and hea rse-ambulance “combination” coaches (camper conversions retaining their original bodies can also participate but won’t be judged).  Saturday evening’s awards banquet at the Cowan Civic Center will co nclude most-memorably at 8 pm with a Moving Lights and Siren Show to t he I-44 Speedway, ensuring immediate anticipation for future PCS Inter national Meets already scheduled for Detroit in 2018; South Dakota’s Black Hills in 2019; the Upstate New York Adirondacks in 2020; and Oh io in 2021.  \n \n\nFor more information visit https://www.southeas twheelsevents.com/events/professional-car-society-s-41st-annual-intern ational-meet DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Midway:20170719T160000 DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Midway:20170722T210000 CATEGORIES:international, meet LOCATION:Hampton Inn (HQ) and Kenneth Cowan Civic Center (SAT show) WEBSITE:http://www.TheProfessionalCarSociety.org URL:http://www.TheProfessionalCarSociety.org CONTACT:(417) 594-4061 ORGANIZER:Ken Howe ATTACH;FMTTYPE="image/jpeg":http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/ file/get/967744801?profile=original ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Gregg Me rksamer":https://www.southeastwheelsevents.com/profile/GreggMerksamer END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR