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Daytona Beach Welcomes Professional
Car Society
The oldest vehicle at the Professional Car Society’s 2012
International Meet in Daytona Beach was Matthew C. Burke’s
1939 Flxible Buick First Call coach.
–Photo by Gregg D. Merksamer
Darren Bedford, a Toronto PCS Member, promoted the Society’s presence at The Shores Resort by
carving these giant letters into the Daytona Beach sand beside Point Marion, PA funeral director
Philip S. Rishel’s S&S Cadillac Fleetwood 6-door Limousine.
–Photo by Gregg D. Merksamer
DAYTONA BEACH,FL—
As the record, 131-vehicle
turnout for last year’s 35th
anniversary event in Hud-
son, OH tested the stam-
ina and time management
abilities of the judging and
photography teams to their
very limits, it was apparent
many
Professional Car
Society
members were in
the mood for a more-re-
laxed and intimate 2012
International Meet of the
sort that took place in sun-
ny Daytona Beach Shores,
FL from June 18-22, 2012.
For having previously or-
ganized the 2004 meet with great success,
William F. Wright
was most-insistent
“the cars are important, but the people are
more important. Fun and fellowship were
the first things on my mind when I decid-
ed to host another PCS International after
eight years,” joined this time by Florida
Chapter President
Richard Vyse
.
The itinerary included a bus trip to the
Kennedy Space Center, three “lights on”
parade laps of the Daytona Internation-
al Speedway and a convoy to the world’s
largest Harley-Davidson motorcycle deal-
ership at Ormond Beach. Out of the three
dozen funeral vehicles at The Shores Re-
sort & Spa, the longest-traveled “pro-car”
proved to be a Eureka-bodied 1995 “Buil-
lac” hearse - envision a Roadmaster fitting
Fleetwood tail lamps to spruce up the cer-
emonial end of the coachwork - driven
1,829 miles from Moorhead, MN by
Jer-
emy Moberg
and
Cathie Lewis
. Having
trailered his 1978 McClain Cadillac Flower
Car “1,300 miles and change” from Ches-
ter, NH, the evident runner-up was
Earle
Whitcher
, who noted his standard-wheel-
base Coupe DeVille conversion was enjoy-
ing a homecoming of sorts, in that “It had
only 25,000 original miles when I found it
on eBay in Port Richey six years ago.”
While
Jon
and
Denise Power
of Marsh-
land Fen, West Norfolk, England were
deemed Daytona’s overall distance champs
following their direct flight from Gatwick
Airport to Orlando, several northeastern
US registrants put their pro-cars on board
the Amtrak Auto Train at Lorton, VA to
bypass several hundred miles of Interstate
95 through the Carolinas and Georgia.
This contingent included a 1978 Miller-
Meteor Cadillac combination coach that
earned
Daniel K. Herrick
of Chatham,
NY first-in-class awards at both the PCS
Daytona meet and the 2012 Cadillac &
LaSalle Grand National held the preced-
ing week just sixty miles up the coast in
St. Augustine. “As soon as I arrived down
here,” he noted, “my first purchase was a
sun screen big enough for my oversized