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  • Narrative: Cars, trucks,

  • for over a century, man has used the automobile

  • not only as a means of conveyance,

  • but as a reflection of personal style.

  • At Bennett Classics Museum,

  • they display their collection of cars and trucks,

  • as the works of art that they are.

  • You'll see everything from a Jack Roush Mustang,

  • that he personally owned himself,

  • to a 1917 Rio truck

  • that was at the bottom of a Lake for over 45 years.

  • [Old fashioned music plays on a Victrola]

  • Christie: Hey, Carl. How are you?

  • Hey, how are you? You must be Christie.

  • I'm Christie.

  • Oh, this is great.

  • I've heard so much about this place,

  • Can you give me a little bit of the history?

  • Christie: Well, Bennett Classic

  • started around seven years ago,

  • the owners are brothers,

  • Buddy and Joe Bennett.

  • They are from Burnsville, North Carolina.

  • So in the late sixties, they moved here

  • to Forest City,

  • They both started businesses

  • and they started collecting cars on the side.

  • So they would get something here and there,

  • put them up, forget about them,

  • and they just kept doing that.

  • Carl: Now this building here, what is this?

  • Christie: Well the house here was built in the 1890s

  • by a doctor in the Concord community,

  • about five minutes from here.

  • They tore this house down

  • and they built it up in here.

  • This is the house.

  • Carl: So, this, what I just walked through,

  • this is actually this house, reconstructed here?

  • Christie: Yes.

  • Wow.

  • Christie: They took all the wood, the windows,

  • the doors, the rooftop.

  • Took the staircase out of it,

  • put it in one of the offices.

  • Carl: So it's a part of history.

  • Yes.

  • Carl: Not just the cars.

  • Christie: Right.

  • Carl: But there are a lot of cars in there.

  • How many cars are in here altogether, Christie?

  • Christie: We keep around 70 in here most of the time.

  • Carl: So when you say most of the time,

  • then they rotate out?

  • Christie: They do.

  • They will sell something, buy something else,

  • bring it in,

  • and just kind of keep it changed up all the time.

  • So you never know what's going to be in here,

  • so that means you got to come back.

  • Okay, great!

  • Carl: Wow, a 1913 Model T Roadster.

  • Christie, is this original?

  • It is.

  • Is that the case with a lot of the cars here?

  • It is, a lot of them are un-restored originals

  • with very little mileage.

  • So that makes it a little bit of a better experience.

  • They got low mileage

  • and they look as good as this,

  • to be un-restored, that's an amazing looking car.

  • Well, this certainly is a car that looks familiar

  • And we call it the Barney Car,

  • and everybody loves it, of course.

  • Carl: Was it actually driven in the show?

  • Christie: We're not quite sure on that.

  • We don't have any documentation,

  • but we were told that it was.

  • Carl: Okay, alright. They say it was.

  • Narrative: The wide variety of cars on-hand

  • at Bennett Classics is really impressive,

  • but they're no slouches when it comes to trucks, either.

  • Awfully good to meet you.

  • Nice to meet you.

  • You're the truck man?

  • I'm the truck man, yes.

  • Is there a little bit of this

  • that takes you back to your childhood?

  • Very much. That's where it started.

  • Yeah?

  • How did it start?

  • We got us an [Old A] model or two

  • when we were boys, eight, ten, years old.

  • We messed with it around on the farm.

  • We enjoyed that and from that,

  • we got another one.

  • When you go to a big effort

  • to make sure you get things restored--

  • Exactly right. I do, very much.

  • This is a 1962 H model Mack.

  • They came to be in about in the late fifties.

  • Mack Trucks engineered that this truck could have a sleeper on it

  • Carl: So it made it a whole lot easier for a driver?

  • Buddy: Well, right.

  • They could get back there.

  • It's a very small sleeper.

  • They'd run double a whole lot in that time,

  • [indiscernible]

  • I guess one of the things that I'm seeing here

  • once again, is the examples,

  • the cars that are here.

  • Just in really good shape.

  • Christie: Yes.

  • Carl: So people are able to get a feel for some of our very early cars

  • and some of our classic cars.

  • Christie: Yes.

  • Carl: What are the ages it has to be for classic to vintage?

  • Do you know those ages?

  • I think it has to be 25 years or older.

  • Narrative: Buddy certainly knows his trucks,

  • but his brother, Joe, is just as knowledgeable

  • when it comes to the cars in their collection.

  • I was talking with your brother.

  • He was telling me that

  • he's the he's the truck guy and you love the cars.

  • He said he likes them too,

  • but he said you really like them.

  • Well, I do.

  • I started fooling with Model H

  • when I was eight or nine years old.

  • I got my first car,

  • which was a wrecked '47 Plymouth

  • when I was 12 years old.

  • Carl: Wow, so you got a history with cars.

  • Yup.

  • This was a car that was in the movie "Leatherhead."

  • Carl: So this taxi?

  • Joe: Yes.

  • We found it just the way it is

  • and we're going to leave it that way.

  • Carl: So, where'd you find this taxi at?

  • Here in the County.

  • Carl: Oh, really?

  • Yea, it was underneath the shed.

  • Wow.

  • I don't know how it got there--

  • But you found it.

  • I found it. [Laughter]

  • Christie: This is the Jack Roush Mustang.

  • It's on loan here from here from [indiscernible]

  • and it was one of his personal vehicles.

  • And it was really signed by Jack Roush.

  • Carl: His signature on a car means a lot, doesn't it?

  • Christie: It does, yes.

  • Everybody wants to see that signature.

  • It's not just a car,

  • but it's a history story.

  • Every car is. I've come to realize that.

  • What have you got over here?

  • Christie: The 1917 Rio truck

  • was found in the bottom of Lake Lure,

  • Mr. Ledbetter, he was an apple farmer.

  • And he hauled apples back and forth to Hendersonville.

  • Back then, Lake Lure was known as Buffalo, North Carolina.

  • One night they were coming back, the lights went out,

  • and they [indiscernible].

  • When he came back to get the truck

  • it had been raining for couple of days

  • and kind of flooded itself

  • and that's how it ended up under the lake.

  • And it stayed under there for 45 years.

  • Carl: Wow.

  • Christie: Yes. He had five sons

  • and they decided that they were going to get it out.

  • Buddy: They pulled it up with a man-made thing

  • with barrels and stuff.

  • They got it up and they restored the truck.

  • That's the original motor that was in it

  • and the whole thing,

  • take it around the [indiscernible]

  • Oh, so it still runs?

  • It runs.

  • Carl: You'd think it would have deteriorated completely

  • but it didn't.

  • It's not salt water. It came out real good.

  • Well that certainly is one of the more interesting pieces.

  • Yeah, and the one with Elvis.

  • Carl: Yeah, right, great.

  • That's what you did as boys,

  • and now you get to do it

  • and share it with a lot of people.

  • That's right. That's the main thing.

  • It's what we built this thing for.

  • We love it. People come and enjoy it.

  • Part of our logo up here is Wheels of Time.

  • Most adults will say,

  • my grandfather had a car like this.

  • We take them back in history.

  • It's a nice little trip back for them.

Narrative: Cars, trucks,

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