World of Wheels

Went to the World of Wheels 'Autorama' car show today with Brad from work. The show was at the America's Centre which is the conference/event centre linked to the Edward Jones Dome. The layout was similar to that for the recent St Louis Auto Show, but this time the dome wasn't used.

There was a good variety of vehicles on show, including, a seriously detailed, completely airbrushed semi (truck) which apparently took 1800 hours to prepare & 2000 hours to paint - mad!! There was a large variety of custom chopper bikes, restored muscle cars, hot rods, customs, pickups, drag racers, sit on lawn mowers(!) & a formula 1 speedboat. As well as all the highly detailed cars, there were also a number of 'rat rods' which are styled specifically to keep rust & dents, etc as this shows the patina & age of the vehicles.

There were a number of trade stands & companies that build hot rods & customs. This is where the show really differed from those in the UK as whilst there were alot of cars built by individuals there were alot of companies with cars that they built on display.

It was lucky that there weren't really any cars for sale otherwise I would have quite happily financed myself up to my eyeballs to buy some of these gorgeous vehicles!