Antique cars that are almost 100 years old will roll into downtown Moultrie Friday on the final leg of a regional tour.

Steve Gordon, tour chairman of the Antique Automobile Cars of America Reliability Tour, said the group of cars will be in Moultrie around 11 a.m. Friday, Oct. 29. The tour features a variety of vehicles that were built in 1915 or earlier, with the oldest car from 1906.

All of the cars are original, and Gordon said they will be on display at the courthouse square while the group stops for lunch. Included in the tour are Model T’s, Interstate, Essex, Buick, Cadillac, Mitchell and White automobiles from the time when cars first became popular.

“It takes a special breed to drive these cars,” Gordon said.

The tour has been going on all week, as Gordon said the group has visited Wakulla Springs State Park in Florida, Madison, Fla., the Tallahassee Antique Car Museum and the Cairo Antique Car Museum.

The group will visit Barwick, downtown Moultrie and the Maule Industries plant then hold a banquet in Thomasville before returning home.

Gordon said the 70 cars that began on the tour came here from all over the country. Cars were brought in from California, Nebraska, Canada, the Midwest, the Northeast, Louisiana, North Carolina and Georgia. The tour also has two tow trucks accompanying the cars in case one has a problem and breaks down.

The tour uses back roads to get to each place because they are not able to be used on freeways and interstates, Gordon said.

They are also driven during the day time only because most models still have gas powered lights on them, not modern electric lights.