‘South Beach Classics’ features Volo Auto Museum VOLO — The Volo Auto Museum will be featured on the popular reality TV show “South Beach Classics” at 9 p.m. CST Wednesday, Jan. 20, on the Velocity Channel. A crew visited the museum at 27582 Volo Village Road, Volo, in October. In the upcoming episode, one of the show’s stars, Ted Vernon, makes a $450,000 offer for one of the museum’s cars — a red, 1989 anniversary model Lamborghini Countach with just 900 original miles. Museum Director Brian Grams stands firm at $500,000. But he...

          The Volo Museums, Volo IL The feeling of where does this place end? is strong at the Volo Museums. Officially, it's just the Volo Auto Museum -- but that name doesn't do justice to an attraction that winds through a half-dozen warehouse-size buildings, and whose exhibits include a roadside bomb from Iraq, a Bonnie and Clyde Death Car, and a 14-foot-tall animated King Kong. - To Continue the Story, Click Here The feeling of where does this place end? is strong at the Volo Museums. Officially, it's just the Volo Auto Museum -- bu...

  Today's high-powered, sleek and snarling snowmobiles reach speeds of 150 mph. Drag-racer snowmobiles exceed 200 mph. By comparison, the earliest snowmobiles, on display at the Volo Auto Museum, "hurtled" along at 20, 25 mph. The exhibit has just over two dozen vintage snowmobiles, from converted Model A and T Fords to a 3,000-horsepower rocket-powered snowmobile. The latter, made with NASA parts, left bemused visitors shaking their heads — as in "I wouldn't be caught dead riding that thing." The exhibit opened Dec. 26 and will r...