NS luxury car gets shined up for its 100th birthday party

"THE BODY WAS PRETTY WELL all there and there were four fenders," antique car enthusiast Bruce Rodgers said of the 1912 McKay roadster now restored and displayed at the Nova Scotia Museum of Industry in Stellarton. "But the fenders were all for the same corner of the car," he added with a chuckle.

It took 15 members of the Pictou County Antique Auto Club about four years to restore the seven-seater, now a gleaming deep brown artifact about to celebrate its 100th birthday.

All the people who worked on its restoration are invited to a March 17 birthday party at the museum, said Rodgers, a club member.

The body, the fenders, and a few other bits and pieces were found hanging in a barn in the Gaspereau Valley in the early 1970s, said the museum’s curator of collections, Mary Guildford.


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