Barber car show coming to Mountain Brook Village in May
Historic and collector’s cars will descend upon Mountain Brook Village on a May evening.
The event will be part of the inaugural Barber Historics weekend that was announced at a press conference on Feb. 3.
On Friday, May 15, cars will drive Highway 78 from Barber Motorsports Park to the village and park in its circle from 5-7 p.m. The car owners will be on hand to talk with visitors, and the village will offer music, food and special events at its shops and restaurants.
“It’s a good opportunity to see cars outside their racing element,” said Jeff Ray, director of Barber Vintage Motorsports Museum.
Organizers Barber Motorsports Park and the Historic Motor Sports Association expect for the weekendlong Historics event to draw visitors from around the country. It will feature museum-quality cars from the early days of motorsports through the 1980s, including prewar, Formula 1, Can Am and Trans Am cars, as well as Lotus cars from all over the world.
“This will be a festival in the truest sense of the word,” said Gene Hallman, CEO of ZOOM Motorsports, Barber’s event promoter. “It’s a car lovers dream.”
George Fullmer, the grand marshal for the Historics event, is celebrating the 50th anniversary of his United States Road Racing Championship in a Lotus 23B “giant killer.”