Kentucky is a great place for cars lovers. I think it goes along with the horse thing. At least the parts of my personality that led me to be horse crazy, likely made me car crazy, too…

In Bowling Green, there is the Corvette Museum with plenty of red, white and blue:

And just northeast, in Elizabethtown, dealership magnate Bill Swope, 87, houses about three dozen vintage cars in a free museum located beside one of his car lots.

His collection includes a 1914 Renault taxi, completely original 1928 Packard and several other rare models. Each car runs and gets driven. 

"That's just the kind of person he (Swope) is. He loves for people to come in and see him. He is what I call an old-time gentleman," says part time museum hostess Judith Asbury, pictured with a 1956 Thunderbird from the collection.

Asbury is one of three widows that work two days at the museum "just to get out of the house." She found out about the position through a friend from church.