INSTLR60 said:
no, I didn't. First time hearing about it...would like to know more, please....
If you're not familiar with PCS, Rick, it's the Professional Car Society. Members buy, sell and collect older hearses and passenger-car-based ambulances: the big Cadillacs, Buicks, Pontiac and Oldsmobile ambulances. Every year in the summer PCS has a national meet in different city each years. This year's was in Milwaukee. Too far for me to make it. The meet lasts for a week and includes tours of interest in the host city and/or surrounding area. In some places they've been allowed to have a full-fledged Code 3 parade, with the ambulances and combination-cars running lights and sirens the whole time. But in others, they have a light and sound show at the end of the meet, as I mention above.
Professional Cars International, based in Southern California, also has some intersting meets, but most of their meets are in the Los Angeles area. Their Summer Meet, which I've been to, features a "Rollin' to the Rescue" Code 3 run, which features old firetrucks, rescues, police cars and ambulances. To be in the parade, the vehicle has to have working lights and sirens. The parade is escorted either by CHP or LAPD and runs about 5 miles roughly..depending on where they start. It all culminates at the big Hansen Dam park, where PCI combines with the American Heroes Airshow, where all
LA County emergency agencies have vehicles and equipment on display. Lots of caps, tshirts, etc., for sale. When I was there in 2002, I got to drive the chapter president's (Lou Farah) 1969 hightop Suburban ambulance in the parade. Niiiice! :yes: