Gregg D. Merksamer
PCS Life Member / PCS Publicity Chairman / PCS Ele
John Yopp, the Georgia-based Editor of SOUTHERN FUNERAL DIRECTOR magazine, has always treated the Professional Car Society most generously when it comes to publishing stories and photos from our annual International Meets, even during those years that they don't take place down south.
His appreciation for our automobiles, activities and preservation-focused mission remains most-evident in the extensive 2015 Houston Meet coverage that appears on pages 8 through 14 of SOUTHERN FUNERAL DIRECTOR's current October-November issue, which can be viewed online and also downloaded as a PDF file at
http://www.sfdmagazine.com/magazine-archives/ or http://www.sfdmagazine.com/publication/view/october-2015/.
Special congratulations are in order to the owners of the cars that were featured in this article, as well as the friends we made at Huntsville Tourism, FrazerBilt Ambulances, Hobby Airport's 1940 Terminal Museum and the National Museum of Funeral History.
In a completely unrelated but still potentially-interesting matter, I also hope you'll all consider visiting OLD CARS WEEKLY's website to enjoy my recently-posted feature on the 2015 New York International Auto Show at http://www.oldcarsweekly.com/news/big-guns-in-the-big-apple, especially since I also serve as the event's official historian in addition to my duties as PCS Publicity Chair. My favorite photo accompanying this story features two statuesque models rocking Old School evening gowns at the Lincoln Continental Concept's World Debut.
OCW's website has also just archived an electronic version of my two-part history of the Pennsylvania Turnpike and its "lost tunnels," which was originally published in 2003 and is again view-able in its entirety at
http://www.oldcarsweekly.com/news/pennsylvania-turnpike-paved-the-way-for-todays-interstates-part-i
and
http://www.oldcarsweekly.com/news/pennsylvania-turnpike-paved-the-way-for-todays-interstates-part-ii. Twelve years on there are few if any stories I've contributed to OCW of which I'm prouder, especially as so many people have experienced this Progenitor of Interstates without fully comprehending the tremendous technical effort that made its construction possible.
His appreciation for our automobiles, activities and preservation-focused mission remains most-evident in the extensive 2015 Houston Meet coverage that appears on pages 8 through 14 of SOUTHERN FUNERAL DIRECTOR's current October-November issue, which can be viewed online and also downloaded as a PDF file at
http://www.sfdmagazine.com/magazine-archives/ or http://www.sfdmagazine.com/publication/view/october-2015/.
Special congratulations are in order to the owners of the cars that were featured in this article, as well as the friends we made at Huntsville Tourism, FrazerBilt Ambulances, Hobby Airport's 1940 Terminal Museum and the National Museum of Funeral History.
In a completely unrelated but still potentially-interesting matter, I also hope you'll all consider visiting OLD CARS WEEKLY's website to enjoy my recently-posted feature on the 2015 New York International Auto Show at http://www.oldcarsweekly.com/news/big-guns-in-the-big-apple, especially since I also serve as the event's official historian in addition to my duties as PCS Publicity Chair. My favorite photo accompanying this story features two statuesque models rocking Old School evening gowns at the Lincoln Continental Concept's World Debut.
OCW's website has also just archived an electronic version of my two-part history of the Pennsylvania Turnpike and its "lost tunnels," which was originally published in 2003 and is again view-able in its entirety at
http://www.oldcarsweekly.com/news/pennsylvania-turnpike-paved-the-way-for-todays-interstates-part-i
and
http://www.oldcarsweekly.com/news/pennsylvania-turnpike-paved-the-way-for-todays-interstates-part-ii. Twelve years on there are few if any stories I've contributed to OCW of which I'm prouder, especially as so many people have experienced this Progenitor of Interstates without fully comprehending the tremendous technical effort that made its construction possible.