Wheels Through Time Museum celebrates 10th anniversary

The Wheels Through Time Museum in Maggie Valley, N.C., will be celebrating its 10-year anniversary July 5-9 in the Great Smoky Mountains of western North Carolina. Since opening its doors on July 4th of 2002, the museum has welcomed over a half-million visitors through its doors who've come to get a taste of American transportation history at its best.

"Over the past 10 years, Wheels Through Time has enjoyed enormous success here in Maggie Valley," says museum curator Dale Walksler. "We owe a vast part of that success to our visitors, and for our 10th Anniversary, we'd like to recognize and pay tribute to all those who have helped us become the museum that we are today."

During the celebration museum staff will be giving special tours and demonstrations of many of the rare machines at WTT, including nearly a dozen early American racing motorcycles, several significant automobiles dating back to the 1920s, and one of the newest additions to the museum collection -- the "Belly Tanker" race car seen on numerous episodes of "American Pickers."

The museum houses more than 320 of America's rarest and most significant motorcycles and automobiles, and is renowned for its "non-traditional" approach to preserving a vast collection of two- and four-wheeled machines that spans over 100 years. While most automotive and motorcycle related museums in North America house near static collections of shiny, restored machines kept in glass cases or behind velvet ropes, at Wheels Through Time each and every machine inside the museum walls is kept in running and operating condition, many of which are fired up and run regularly for visitors. Over 75 percent of the collection stands in original condition -- untouched survivors tracing back to the roots of motorized transportation -- indicating the museum's emphasis on originality.

For more information , visit the Wheels Through Time Museum website at www.WheelsThroughTime.com or call the museum at 828-926-6266.

Got Old Cars?

If you don't subscribe to Old Cars Weekly magazine, you're missing out on the only weekly magazine in the car hobby. And we'll deliver 54 issues a year right to your mailbox every week for less than the price of a oil change! Click here to see what you're missing with Old Cars Weekly!

More Resources for Car Collectors: