Loel Helmick wants to make sure his cars will start, run and stop no matter what the weather.

The Gilmore Car Museum in Hickory Corners northeast of Kalamazoo will host a Muscle Cars Plus show from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday.

As I mentioned yesterday, I attended the first-ever Ohio Summer Classic Car Auction at the John S. Knight Center in Akron the weekend before last, where the lad above drove off in a little bright yellow car.

An insurance industry group identifies the 2000 Dodge Caravan minivan is the automobile most often reported stolen in Ohio.

An insurance industry group identifies the 2000 Dodge Caravan minivan is the automobile most often reported stolen in Ohio.

My first wife and I bought this 1955 Oldsmobile Cutlass two-door in August 1955 for about $3,500. Our daughter learned to drive in it but one day it threw a rod while she was driving.

An insurance industry group identifies the 2000 Dodge Caravan minivan is the automobile most often reported stolen in Ohio.

An insurance industry group says American cars remain the top picks among Missouri thieves.

An insurance industry group says American cars remain the top picks among Missouri thieves.

An insurance industry group says American cars remain the top picks among Missouri thieves.

An insurance industry group says American cars remain the top picks among Missouri thieves.

PHOTOS BY APRIL AMADON Brynn and Bruce Gelband and their son, Adam, of Virginia, look at the classic cars on display Monday in Ida Fritz Park during Lockport Cruise Night.

Hundreds, perhaps thousands of Hoosiers are weighing the merits of the federal government's cash for clunkers program, which begins Friday nationwide.

Passersby couldn't help but notice the bright red interior and the shiny silver engine of Joe Tuckey's restored 1957 Chevy Bel Air.

On the 101st anniversary of the writer's birth, the Pulaski County Library Board named the Burnside Public Library Branch in honor of Harriette Simpson Arnow.

An estimated 100-plus concerned citizens gathered on Somerset's Fountain Square Saturday afternoon for another "TEA Party," a growing trend in recent months across the nation modeled after the historical Boston Tea Party, to protest taxes and big government.

DELTA TWP. - Harold Gray believes his 1929 Oldsmobile, originally owned by a Livonia farmer, may once have transported alcohol during Prohibition.

Submitted by Bill Bortzfield on Fri, 06/05/2009 - 07:00. No smoke, no racket and higher gas milage.

Q. I'm 40 years old, live in Boston, and want to get involved in racing. My wife thinks I'm nuts and going through some type of mid-life crisis.

How cool: Washington has decided to save the planet by raising the nation's fuel economy standards.