Piston Powered Auto-Rama

The Summit Racing I-X Piston Powered Auto-Rama is a big show—its main hall was crammed with show cars, vintage semi trucks, tanks and military vehicles, tractors, and even a massive Boeing KC-97G Stratofreighter. To better put that in context, understand that the main hall was a former factory where workers assembled B-29 Superfortress bombers during WWII.

CLEVELAND, OH — It’s a 1941 Ford pickup. Kind of. It’s hard to explain because the only vehicles in the world that are anything like it are also entirely one-of-a-kind. Just like “Mirage.” Why the name? “It’s not what it seems,” said owner Richard Broyles, in a recent interview at the 2017 Piston Powered Auto-Rama where