World of Wheels

I apologize for the lack of content recently due to quite a busy week which unfortunately didn’t have too much to do about cars.

Last weekend I visited the World of Wheels event in Boston. It wasn’t really the sort of event that I would usually attend, yet I still found some of these cars quite amazing. With at least 150 cars there was no shortage of things to lay your eyes on. There was also a live restoration on some cars while the show was in progress. When that car was finished it would probably have at least four layers of paint to give it some crazy color and have most of the of the extremely powerful engine finished in chrome. Certain cars were also propped up off the floor with mirrors underneath the body revealing the completely chrome finished bottom.

Some of these cars were some people’s life’s work, which was self evident because on some cars more than 10,000 hours were poured into them.

The oldest car there was a Ford Model T from 1924. This was the first mass produced car, ever. Ford produced the 10 millionth Model T was produced in 1924. The Model T also won the race from New York to Seattle with an average speed of 7.75 miles which took the old Ford 22 days and 55 minutes to cover 4,100 miles. This car even had what looked like a hand woven basket, which was fitted onto the side of the Model T.

Lots of cars had televisions fitted into them, which I didn’t really think of when I first thought of this event. There was this one car that I still remember extremely well. It was a bright yellow 2005 Saturn Ion Redline. This car had ten plus TVs in it all over the car. There was a large one right on the hood and a couple small ones in the interior. Instead of normal headlights, like your average car, it was part of the crazy stereo system. The headlights were speakers…. Not only were the headlights or the excessive amounts of TV's special but so was the door system. The actual doors went straight up like those of a Lamborghini Aventador, but then the area behind the doors went upwards like a Mercedes-Benz AMG SLS.

When I went to this event I thought there would just be lots of Hot Rods with 600+ horsepower and only of the ground by a couple of inches, which there was, but actually lots of others. Among the “hot rods” there were lots of old Corvettes, Mustangs, old pickup trucks, and cars that looked like they belonged in the mafia from the 30’s. There was also a Ferrari 458 Italia and Maserati present at the event, but they looked almost out of place. There were some new Corvette’s but I guess you could consider that as a continuation of all of the older Corvettes. Long story short, the World of Wheels event was a pretty interesting experience.