It may be fitting that the I-X Center will be going out with a bang when it hosts its final consumer show next month. That is, the bang of a thousand piston-powered machines—of rat rods, muscle cars, drag racers, police cruisers, monster trucks and Korean War-era military tank.
Otherwise known as the Car Parts Warehouse I-X Piston Powered Auto-Rama, which will be the final major event at Cleveland’s largest convention center when it discontinues all shows at the end of March.
It’s an appropriate end for the half-million-square-foot space, which has made a name for hosting trade shows and exhibitions focused on living and moving — the Auto Show, the RV Show, the Cleveland Boat Show and the Great Big Home & Garden Show. (The “Big Four,” insiders call it.)…