Wheel Hub Live at the Speedway Motors Museum of American Speed
Whew. What a weekend. As I write this, it's early in the morning on Saturday, May 27th. We're right in the middle of the first Wheel Hub Live event at the Museum of American Speed. Even though the main event doesn't start for a few hours, it's already been absolutely epic. Personally, it's one of the best car events your author has ever been to, and I've been to a lot.
How did this all happen? Well, the always inventive Stephen Kim of Wheel Hub and museum curator Tim Matthews had an idea to officially open the new 90,000 sq. ft. expansion to the Museum of American Speed with a spectacular celebration. Their idea? Invite a few of the amazing cars and their builders that have been featured in Wheel Hub to the museum for a weekend of driving, socializing, and a once in a lifetime collection of cars in the new addition of the museum. This weekend has been the culmination of that idea and months of hard work by all involved to pull in off, and boy was it worth it.
But you don't just want to hear me talk about it. You want to see pictures of this insanity. Here's a day by day recap of one epic weekend in Nebraska...
Thursday
Thursday was move in day, with a catered dinner in the evening. While not all of the cars had yet arrived, it was already enough to take your breath away when you walked in the door to the expansion. It was a calm, quiet, and very moving experience to see works of art by so many talented builders appear together. It was already clear that the days that followed would be incredible.
Friday
With your permission, I'm just going to keep using the word epic. Friday's reliability run had a couple hundred participants covering almost two hundred miles of beautiful Nebraska roads on a beautiful Nebraska day. We were bound for the Kuck Collection of cars, lunch with CAL Automotive Creations in Bennington, then back to Lincoln to visit our friends at No Coast Custom and Rod shop before returning to Speedway Motors for some barbecue and Mash Labs beer brewed specially for the event. And to make it all even more spectacular, several of the Wheel Hub display cars made the drive too, then wiped off the bugs under the lights in the museum. Epic.
Saturday
This is it, the main event, and it's happening as we're writing this. Wheel Hub Live in the Museum of American Speed opened its doors to the public at 8 am and Speedway Motors is holding its first Cars and Coffee of the year. The parking lot is full of cars. We've even got cars in the ballfield behind our warehouse. In fact, the whole property is overflowing with over a thousand cars. It's insanity, in the best possible way.
With the event literally happening as we speak, we'll continue to update here and on the Speedway Motors social media channels. For right now, we're going to go look at more cars!