Main Street Car Show a hot event - Anderson Independent Mail
ANDERSON - Taking a stroll along Main street in downtown Anderson Saturday afternoon was a lot like walking into the drive-in scene from the movie "The Hollywood Knights. The 10th annual Main Street Car Show brought 250 new, old, and downright ancient automobiles to the heart of Anderson. The cars were parked, hoods raised, up and down both sides of Main Street between Earle and Market streets, and at odd angles in and around the old and new courthouse squares. Saturday's shimmering heat seemed to make people hang around the older, non-air-conditioned models a little bit longer, if only to try to imagine surviving the drive home in one of them. Furman Cain, of Iva, sat beneath the shade of a pin oak tree near the historic courthouse while people circled his black-and-white 1953 Ford coupe. The '53 Ford coupe was made famous by television's Andy Griffith Show. That's why I've got that license plate on the front bumper," Cain said, motioning to the plate, which read: "This vehicle protected by Barney Fife. David McGee, also of Iva, sat with Cain beneath the pin oak tree. His 1954 Ford Customline club coupe sat parked nearby. McGee talked about the car he said he had been restoring little by little over the past 15 years. "I'd rather drive this old Ford around than a brand-new one. It's good a good air conditioner," he said. Source: www.independentmail.com
