The Summit Racing Equipment I-X Piston Powered Auto-Rama covers 1 million square feet of Cleveland’s International Exposition Center with every type of piston-engine vehicle imaginable. You’ve seen our galleries elsewhere on streetrodder.com highlighting the quantity and variety of those vehicles—everything from street rods to musclecars, motorcycles, boats, snowmobiles, and farm equipment. You’ve got to figure that a mix like that is going to include a large percentage of racecars, and it does. Even in this single category, the variety is wide–Stock cars, Sprint cars, autocross cars, midget racers, rally racers, Bonneville racers, lakesters, gassers, Top Fuelers, altereds, and Funny Cars, to name a few. Add to that the street cars built in the style of any of the above mentioned cars.
We even found a few piston-free racecars at the Piston Powered Auto-Rama. Soap Box Derby racers were competing in the South Hall of the I-X Center. Ohio is the birthplace of this gravity-powered racing, starting in the early Thirties, right here in Ohio. Eighty-five years later, the annual World Championship race is still held in Akron.
Check out this gallery of some of the vintage and modern racecars on display for the weekend at the Summit Racing Equipment I-X Piston Powered Auto-Rama.
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