Historic handover A band tour bus restored by several local companies was presented on Saturday in Ocala to

By Andy Fillmore Correspondent

Country Music Hall of Famer and former Johnny Cash band member Marty Stuart shared the spotlight with another country music veteran on Saturday, Feb. 18, at the Reilly Arts Center in Ocala—a gleaming red, black and white 1957 Flxible StarLiner bus dubbed “The Chief.”

The venerable bus, restored and customized almost entirely by local craftsmen and technicians, was donate by the owners of a Marion County horse farm and was set to be shipped by flatbed trailer to Marty Stuart’s Congress of Country Music museum in Philadelphia, Mississippi, houses more than 33,000 cataloged items.

According to congressofcountrymusic. org, the $30 million project will create a 50,000-plus-square-foot campus featuring the historic and recently renovated