Saturday, on a portion of a paved lot where Dodges, Nissans and Jeeps usually faced Interstate 20, a history of the automobile was on display.
The people visiting the Vicksburg Cruisers 14th annual Red Carpet Classic Auto Show toured the collection of classic and custom vehicles, high performance cars and more modern vehicles as the sounds of classic rock and R&B drifted across the Blackburn Nissan lot on North Frontage Road.
The show opened at 8 a.m. and ran until 3 p.m. Cruisers member Micky Parker estimated about 55 cars had registered for the show.
He said the club’s relationship with Blackburn Motors goes back 14 years when the organization was looking for a site to hold the car show and approached Brother Blackburn about holding it at the dealership.
The relationship has continued with Blackburn’s son, Jeb.
“We’re welcomed here each year,” Parker said.
“We’ve got all kinds of cars out here,” said Cruisers member Lonnie Wooley. “We’ve got hot rods, rat rods, classics.”
Wooley pointed to a 1968 Chevrolet pickup. “It’s still got the original motor and all equipment.”
He then pointed to another car that seemed more at home on the drag strip than a car show and said, “It was brought in on a trailer; it was too radical to run on the street.”
The show featured several unusual vehicles — Army jeeps, a Dodge Viper, a 2016 Dodge Challenger Hellcat with a 707 horsepower Hemi V-8 — and the most unique of the vehicles on display, a Polaris Slingshot, a three-wheeled vehicle powered by a four-cylinder Chevrolet engine.
“My baby,” owner My Nguyen said, “I bought it two years ago. I’ve been to the show several times. I used to ride a motorcycle. This is the first time for the Slingshot. It’s real fun and fast.”
Nguyen said the vehicle attracts a lot of attention, “especially from kids. Kids love it. When I pulled in, 10-15 kids surrounded it before I could park.”
Two of the Slimgshot’s admirers were Tay Everett and Bill Barbuto.
“We come to the show every year,” said Everett, who had a Chevrolet El Camino pickup and a 1955 Chevrolet Bel Air in the show.
“We like to see what people do to the cars,” said Barbuto, who had a 1955 Chevrolet Nomad Station Wagon in the show.
In another area of the lot, Bruce King was checking the spark plug wires on his 1968 Hemi Plymouth Road Runner. He also brought his blue Plymouth Sport Satellite convertible that won a top prize at the show last year. King said the Road Runner is his current project.
“I refurbished it to make it date correct,” he said as he showed two photos from the car’s drag racing past. “I’m researching the history of the car.”
Proceeds from the show benefited Dr. Dan Edney’s Renewal House program, a Christian sober living home for low-income men that is based on the 12-step recovery principles and includes work placement and financial training programs.
About John Surratt
John Surratt is a graduate of Louisiana State University with a degree in general studies. He has worked as an editor, reporter and photographer for newspapers in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. He has been a member of The Vicksburg Post staff since 2011 and covers city government. He and his wife attend St. Paul Catholic Church and he is a member of the Port City Kiwanis Club.
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