PERKINS TWP.

Car buff and Ohio Veterans Home employee Kevin Weyer knows that many of the residents he sees every day like cars, too.

But it's hard for many of the veterans home residents to get out to car shows. So a few years ago, Weyer decided to start bringing car shows to them by organizing an annual OVH vintage car show.

The annual car show, which began five years ago with five cars, had at least 93 cars when it returned to the OVH Wednesday. The festivities included a 1950s-themed picnic, a dunk tank with OVH staffers as targets, and Miss Ohio United States, Sarah Enstad, 21, a Bellevue native who attends The Ohio State University.

Weyer, an OVH maintenance repairman, got support for Wednesday's show from car-collecting groups such as the Car Coddlers, the Toledo Pacers and the Remember Cruising Car Club of Sandusky.

Some of the cars were contributed by Weyer's family. The entries in the show included a 1967 Ford Mustang convertible that Weyer owns with his wife, Connie.

His mother-in-law, Wanda Moore of Clyde, entered her 1953 Ford Customline, while his father-in-law, Darwin Moore, entered his 1950 Ford Custom.

Darwin Moore said his gleaming car was in a sorry state when he acquired it.

"There was nothing on it when I got it. No chrome ... nothing worked on it. No radio," he said.

The Moores said Fords are the only kind of car their family drives.

Wednesday's exhibitors included Dale Brundage of Berlin Heights and his wife, Cindy, who brought in a 1956 Mercury, a 1948 Chevy pickup and a 1923 Ford T-Bucket.

"I was here last year," Dale Brundage said. "It seems every year it gets bigger."

Cindy Brundage said one of the residents recognized the pickup, telling her, "I used to have one of those. I paid $600 for it."

Clare H. Dewey, 77, a Navy veteran, was one of the residents looking at the cars Wednesday.

"It's a nice mixture," he said..

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