Dick Hannah Dealerships Gears Up for Beaches Summertime Cruisin’s Car Show

Vancouver, WA, May 22, 2011 --(PR.com)-- Dick Hannah Dealerships and Beaches Restaurant and Bar are getting ready for the 17th season of the Beaches Summertime Cruisin’s car show beginning June 1st, 2011 and continuing every Wednesday throughout the summer until September 28th, 2011. For more information on the event series go to www.beachesrestaurantandbar.com/Cruisin.html. A summer staple, Beaches Summer Cruisin’s is a car show, party and charity event rolled into one delivering Vancouver and Portland area residents a chance to have fun for a good cause as well as enjoy the classic Beaches Restaurant atmosphere. This season marks a special milestone that Dick Hannah Dealerships is proud to be a part of; Beaches Summertime Cruisin’ will hit $1,000,000 raised for children’s charities in the Portland/Vancouver area, helped in part by a $15,000 donation made by Dick Hannah Dealerships. Overall donations are made from the people in the community who come to this event every year and continue to make the event grow as an estimated 2000-4000 people are expected to attend weekly this summer. Tickets are $5 per show car for the first two passengers and $8 for each additional passenger; $8 per person general public; kids 12 & under free. All proceeds from this event go to local charities that benefit kids.

Pro Caliber Motorsports (www.procaliber.com), a leading motorsports dealer in the Pacific Northwest with some of the largest showroom areas on the west coast displaying all types of vehicles, will have their own showcase every Wednesday displaying everything from cruisers to street bikes and four wheelers to dirt bikes. Fast Specialties (www.fastspecialties.com), a high performance specialty shop performing modifications to vehicles of all makes and models, will have their own array of modified cars on display for spectators to view.

Family owned since 1949, Dick Hannah Dealerships is dedicated to providing excellent customer service, maintaining a positive and productive work environment, and conducting business in a way that promotes the highest principles of integrity and ethical behavior. Dick Hannah Dealerships features franchise auto dealers selling both new cars and used cars through their Acura, Chrysler-Jeep-Dodge-Ram, Honda, Hyundai, Kia, Subaru, Toyota-Scion and Volkswagen Dealerships. As the largest privately owned auto dealer company in the state of Washington, Dick Hannah Dealerships is also setting the standard for environmental best practices for automobile dealerships. Teaming up with the National Arbor Day Foundation, Dick Hannah Dealerships plants a tree with every car they sell. Now, over 50,000 trees have been planted. The Dick Hannah Dealerships Collision Center recently converted to the all-new environmentally sound PPG’s Envirobase High Performance waterborne painting system. “In our area of the country, thinking green is a way of life,” says Rick Stoker, director of Dick Hannah Collision Center (www.dickhannahcollisioncenter.com). “For us, being responsible stewards of environment is simply the right thing to do.” To learn more visit www.dickhannah.com.

For more information please contact:
Kent VanArnam
Director of Marketing
360.944.3244
kentv@dickhannah.com

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