Maybe you occasionally watch car auction shows on cable TV and wonder how your wife would react if you cashed in your 401(k) or sold the house to buy that numbers-matching L88 Corvette. I’m pretty sure I could get to another state before Janet realized what I had done and loaded up her gun to come looking for me. Hagerty Insurance, which writes lots of policies for collector and specialty cars, may have a better idea. The Michigan company put together a list of 10 unique or potentially collectible cars that it says can be bought for less than $5,000. This field is for SPAM prevention and should be left blank. This question is for testing whether you are a human visitor and to prevent automated spam submissions. read more

He ran off with the second Truck series race of the season, leading 100 of 130 laps and besting runner-up Busch by 1. Harvick, making his first Truck start of 2010, has won three straight in the series. Busch, another successful Sprint Cup barnstormer now with his own team and fielding Tundras won seven of the 15 Truck series races he entered in 2009. In addition, we remind anyone interested in making an online comment that responsibility for statements posted lies with the person submitting the comment, not The Charlotte Observer. read more

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Always the newsman, Jim Gannon knew when he spied a Hutchinson name on the owner’s manual of the 1950 Chevrolet coupe he bought at auction that it was a story. Gannon, retired editor of the Des Moines Register and a classic car buff, bought the vehicle at a Kissimmee, Fla. After his mother died, her car went to a grandson, Mike O’Riley, who lives near Bella Vista, Ark. In a telephone interview O’Riley, 68, said he still had the original sale bill for the blue Styleline cq Deluxe Chevy purchased by his great-grandmother Mrs. The two didn’t drive the car often, they shopped locally, drove downtown to the Davis-Child Chevrolet dealership on West Second Avenue to have it serviced and attended church occasionally in Plevna, in western Reno County. O’Riley had watched the Florida car sale on Internet and thinks he saw the car sell. read more