An appetite for classics leads to four garages and a fire truck museum. IN 1997, A CLASSIC-CAR dealer in Florida was sent to jail. Among the charges was an attempt to swindle Howard and Norma Weaver out of $30,000, which the couple had put down in 1992 for a '31 DeSoto that had spent seven years in restoration. "That was our introduction into the car hobby," says Howard Weaver, now 81. "Since then, we tend to ask for titles when we buy a car." The DeSoto was a long time coming. Fifty-four years earlier, Weaver's family purchased an American Austin built in 1931, a tiny 12-hp two-door that looks like a half-scale Model A Ford. "My dad paid $50 for it," Howard recalls. The Weavers kept the car, and today it sits next to their Willys Jeep in the fourth garage on their property in southeast Michigan.
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