Here’s the 2012 edition of an annual car show with a real car-guy flavor: the Sloan Museum Auto Fair in Flint, Michigan. This weekend’s show was another great time.  

The big Buick and Fisher Body plants may be gone, but Flint remains a car biz town, grease under its fingernails. You can feel it at the Auto Fair. Cars are in peoples’ bones here.

Take Bob Store. At the Auto Fair, MCG stopped to visit with him about his immaculate ’66 Corvair Corsa. There we learned he’s owned this same car for 45 years—he bought it new when he graduated from the General Motors Institute. And he’s still in the car biz today, engineering electric cars at Magna International. Lots of cars and their owners at the Auto Fair have similar stories. Here, people aren’t simply car enthusiasts or car collectors. Cars are their lives, and their lives and their cars are intertwined, inseparable. Cars are who they are. Cars are what they do.

The Auto Fair is organized by and takes place around the grounds of the Alfred P. Sloan Museum and the adjoining Flint Cultural Center. It’s a great location for a car show, with plenty of green lawns and shade. This year’s event featured a special exhibit of historic midget, sprint, and Indy cars—a collection so strong that MCG will be doing a separate feature. Look for it.

In the meantime, here’s a slide show gallery of some of the cars on hand this weekend. Please enjoy.