Sunday marked the starting line for the 8-day event with hundreds of automobile enthusiasts gathering at Hardy Court in Gulfport.
“We’ve had this car since 2000; we brought it down from Pennsylvania,” Stone said. “It was in a collection up there. It is a movie car; it is not an original and was built to lend to stuntmen at movies. But because you can’t do lending of an original since “The appearance of the vehicle is beautiful,” Stone said. “It’s longer than a Cadillac and about as heavy as a Tahoe. It drives very well. It does have power steering and all sorts of things that they did not have back in the pre-war days.”
“All my sons and I have built cars together and one day she said why don’t you build me a car,” said Powers.“I hunted until I found one; it took me three years to build this,” said Powers. “I gave it to her for her 70th birthday so that’s how this car came about.”