Wheels Through Time Museum

 Don't know if you are aware of it or not but the Wheels Through Time Museum

( http://wheelsthroughtime.com/  ) will be closing and becoming "Wheels
Around The World". Dale Walksler will auction off about 150 vintage
motorcycles, trucks and automobiles September 25-27th 2008. The rest of the
collection will travel in tractor trailers next year.



Wheels Through Time is located in Maggie Valley, NC and could easily be the
premier collection of antique motor vehicles. I've been several times since
it is within an easy 200 mile ride to the area. If you like mechanical
rolling and operating art better plan a ride soon to this museum.



If you ask anyone who has visited they would probably tell you it is
definitely worth the ride plus all those mountain roads.






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 Greasy Rider wrote:

Great museum.  Visited both in Illinois and in Carolina.

I had heard, but don't know for a fact, that Walksler is pulling the
plug over some issues with the local folks in Maggie Valley.  Does
anybody know if that's the case?

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His museum is the biggest attraction there and just about a destination unto
itself. He pulls out and some motels and restaurants are going to hurt.
Every time I've been to Maggie Valley motorcyclists made up 50% or more of
the head count. I'm sure that the museum  attracts a fair share of car nuts
too.  Last time I was there vintage Corvettes clogged the streets.


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I got that impression when talking to Dale when a few of us visited during
MISFIT last year; said it was almost as bad as what he went thru in Mt.
Vernon.  Seems whenever the town council needed cash he was first on the
list but they never gave anything in return.

Hate to see the collection broken up, I know it took him years to put it
together and a lot of it is really one of a kind stuff.  My favorite is the
1909 Reading Standard board track racer; sounded like pure fury and anger
when running.

Guess the MISFIT Friday ride is settled for this year.
Paulie
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Dale told me that he was tired of the no support attitude of the
Maggie Valley Chamber of Commerce and the restrictions the town has on
his signage ETC. that he would be closing in Aug and having the
auction in Sept. However he told me that he would be looking for a
location in California to reopen the museum. He didn't mention a
traveling museum.