Mount Pleasant Magazine Sept/Oct 2016

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but the camaraderie. We may come from all walks of life,
but our common bond is our love of cars.”
Charleston Cars & Coffee’s unofficial photographer,
Lane Anderson of Dunes West, echoed that sentiment.
“Most of us aren’t mainstream sports fans. In South
Carolina, you can run into a hard-core football fan just
about anywhere. But when you start talking about cars,
most people go blank. With the people at our Saturday
meets, you can sit around and talk cars forever!”
On this Saturday, he left his BMW 128i at home and
arrived in his Beck Speedster, a 2006 factory-built recre-
ation of a 1957 Porsche 356 Speedster that’s guaranteed to
have any classic car buff salivating.
Parked nearby Anderson’s Speedster was another
vehicle that always attracts lots of attention – a fire-engine
red 1939 Ford known as “The Bootlegger.” Owned by Bob
Demschick of Mount Pleasant, this meticulously custom-
ized street rod comes complete with a whiskey barrel –
which Dan swore is nonfunctional – built into its trunk.
Demschick said that when he has shown “The Bootleg-
ger” up North, it’s always gotten its fair share of attention.
“But, down here, folks really crowd around for a close
look, and they love it. After all, just about everyone living
here seems to know someone or is related to someone
who’s run moonshine!”
And Dan Whitton, a lifelong car guy who runs Whitton
Marine, Inc. on Clements Ferry Road and calls the Corvette
“the backbone of the entire General Motors empire,” noted
that all of the attendees at Charleston Cars & Coffee have at
least two things in common: “They are car guys. And they
are not golfers. Cars are their hobby.”
So, if T-tops are more important to you than tee times,
make it a point to motor on over to Towne Centre any
Saturday. You won’t be disappointed, And, except for your
coffee, it’s all free.
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