Welcome to Wheels Through Time

Wheels Through Time Museum is home to the world’s premier collection of rare American motorcycles, memorabilia, and a distinct array of unique “one-off” American automobiles. Located just 5 miles off the Blue Ridge Parkway in Maggie Valley, North Carolina our museum houses a collection of over 300 rare machines.

We are reopening for the 2023 season on April 6th, 2023!

Become a Wheels Through Time Donor

In 2016, our Founder Dale Walksler introduced the WTT Donorship program to help sustain the long-term growth of the museum and the ongoing effort to educate our visitors on the history of the American Motorcycle. The program opens a way for you to move from a casual observer to an active participant.
By becoming a Donor, you become a special part of the museum family, and your generous gift ensures that the museum’s vision, passion, and mission moves forward year after year.

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Introducing the 2023 WTT Raffle Bike

This Year’s Raffle Bike is the sleek 1937 Harley-Davidson Knucklehead Bobber, finished in HD custom Silver, striped in Black, and edged in Gold. This 61c.i. Knucklehead powerhouse sports a 4-speed transmission, bobbed fenders, and Flanders accessory risers and bars, flaunting its authentic period-modified look and feel. This custom machine was hand-built in the Wheels Through Time Restoration Shop for one purpose

Going home with one lucky winner this 2023!

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Dale's Channel

Dale's Channel beholds over 400 shows about the history, restorations, and rebuilds that take place at the Wheels Through Time Museum. You can watch the shows on your iPhone, tablet, computer, or smart TV and see any of the shows at anytime. Click here to get subscribed! This is programming that you can't see anywhere else and all proceeds benefit the Wheels Through Time Motorcycle Museum in Maggie Valley, North Carolina.

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Introducing the 2023 WTT Raffle Bike

This Year’s Raffle Bike is the sleek 1937 Harley-Davidson Knucklehead Bobber, finished in HD custom Silver, striped in Black, and edged in Gold. This 61c.i. Knucklehead powerhouse sports a 4-speed transmission, bobbed fenders, and Flanders accessory risers and bars, flaunting its authentic period-modified look and feel. This custom machine was hand-built in the Wheels Through Time Restoration Shop for one purpose

Going home with one lucky winner this 2023!

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Become a Lifetime Donor

In 2016, The Wheels Through Time Museum introduced The Lifetime Donorship program to help sustain the growth of the museum and the ongoing effort to educate our visitors on the history of American Motorcycles. Along with free lifetime admission for yourself and three guests of your choice, you also receive a limited David Uhl painting of The Discovery , our special Crocker Package (which you can’t get anywhere else), two dozen raffle tickets for our annual raffle bike, and more! As a Lifetime Donor, we welcome you to The Wheels Through Time family and invite you to come in for a visit whenever our doors are open!

Tell me more!

Dale's Channel

Dale's Channel beholds over 400 shows about the history, restorations, and rebuilds that take place at the Wheels Through Time Museum. You can watch the shows on your iPhone, tablet, computer, or smart TV and see any of the shows at anytime. Click here to get subscribed! This is programming that you can't see anywhere else and all proceeds benefit the Wheels Through Time Motorcycle Museum in Maggie Valley, North Carolina.

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RAISED

GOAL

$300,000

RAISED

GOAL

$300,000

THE MISSION

Preserving our nation’s motorcycle history has never been so important!

What would become Wheels Through Time Museum started in a dirt floor garage in Glenn Elyn, Illinois, when Dale Walksler restored his first motorcycle. Flash forward 52 years and
Wheels Through Time has become a benchmark in American Motorcycle preservation since its founding in Maggie Valley, North Carolina, in 2002.

Now in its twentieth year, the Museum is growing faster than ever imagined, and now we need your help!

Our dream has been to preserve the most important parts of American motorcycle history and culture and share them with our visitors from around the world. With a view to the future, we look to expand the current facility to continue to enhance the visitor experience. In order to do so, we must retrofit our existing facility with a fire suppression system.

The cost of this system is estimated at $300,000, and we’re asking YOU to help join the cause.

Our Visitors Are Like Family

“Like Cars? Like Motorcycles? Then you'll Love this Place!”

A walk through nostalgia, history, collectable Cars and Motorcycles, even some bicycles if I remember right. The best part of walking through this place is that you’ll urethane likely get to meet the owner. The rest of the staff here are encyclopedias of knowledge, wit, and full of stories that can keep you entertained for hours. Well worth the price of admission and a place not to be missed if you are ever in this part of NC.

— Ken G.

“Wheels Through Time Rocks!”

If you have any interest in motorcycles at all, Wheels Through Time needs to be on your “must do” list. Curator Dale Walksler and his son Matt are very welcoming, as are the rest of the courteous staff, and ultra knowledgeable. It’s called “The Museum That Runs” for good reason. Nearly all of the motorcycles and cars on display (hundreds) are operational and every time I’ve been there, something gets started up. There are bikes here that you will see nowhere else. Some are one-of-one beauties. I have been there at least 10 times and am planning my next trip now. Check their dates; they close in the winter.

— Alan M.

“An amazing part of our Family Vacation”

While on Thanksgiving vacation with the family in Maggie Valley we stopped by the Wheels through time museum and it was completely mind blowing. Dale was at the entrance when we arrived and was super friendly and let the kids in for free since we took the time to stop in on our vacation. The entire staff there were excellent and the contents of the place is 2nd to none. It is an unbelievable collection of historic motorcycles and other machines that has to be experienced, i recommend you go there with plenty of time.

— Darrell J.

“A Must See”

If you are staying in Maggie Valley this is a great place to spend a day. Dale is like a kid in a candy store, he is always somewhere in the museum explaining the intracacies of some bike or car to someone or driving one of his vintage machines through the place. The amount of old motorcycles and cars is amazing, there is so much to see you can’t take it all in. A fun time and a great look at the history of the motor world.

— Petra B.

“If you have a love for classics, this place is a must see!”

Classic cars, classic bikes, this is the place. Biggest collection I have ever seen. Dale (the owner and curator) came up to several bikes we were looking at and asked if we would like to hear them run. No sooner than we said absolutely, he was on them and firing them up. Amazing. Hands on, up close and personal. Make sure you allow your self a few hours to spend time so you don’t miss anything in this fabulous collection.

— Bill M.

“Like Cars? Like Motorcycles? Then you'll Love this Place!”

A walk through nostalgia, history, collectable Cars and Motorcycles, even some bicycles if I remember right. The best part of walking through this place is that you’ll urethane likely get to meet the owner. The rest of the staff here are encyclopedias of knowledge, wit, and full of stories that can keep you entertained for hours. Well worth the price of admission and a place not to be missed if you are ever in this part of NC.

— Ken G.

“Wheels Through Time Rocks!”

If you have any interest in motorcycles at all, Wheels Through Time needs to be on your “must do” list. Curator Dale Walksler and his son Matt are very welcoming, as are the rest of the courteous staff, and ultra knowledgeable. It’s called “The Museum That Runs” for good reason. Nearly all of the motorcycles and cars on display (hundreds) are operational and every time I’ve been there, something gets started up. There are bikes here that you will see nowhere else. Some are one-of-one beauties. I have been there at least 10 times and am planning my next trip now. Check their dates; they close in the winter.

— Alan M.

“An amazing part of our Family Vacation”

While on Thanksgiving vacation with the family in Maggie Valley we stopped by the Wheels through time museum and it was completely mind blowing. Dale was at the entrance when we arrived and was super friendly and let the kids in for free since we took the time to stop in on our vacation. The entire staff there were excellent and the contents of the place is 2nd to none. It is an unbelievable collection of historic motorcycles and other machines that has to be experienced, i recommend you go there with plenty of time.

— Darrell J.

“A Must See”

If you are staying in Maggie Valley this is a great place to spend a day. Dale is like a kid in a candy store, he is always somewhere in the museum explaining the intracacies of some bike or car to someone or driving one of his vintage machines through the place. The amount of old motorcycles and cars is amazing, there is so much to see you can’t take it all in. A fun time and a great look at the history of the motor world.

— Petra B.

“If you have a love for classics, this place is a must see!”

Classic cars, classic bikes, this is the place. Biggest collection I have ever seen. Dale (the owner and curator) came up to several bikes we were looking at and asked if we would like to hear them run. No sooner than we said absolutely, he was on them and firing them up. Amazing. Hands on, up close and personal. Make sure you allow your self a few hours to spend time so you don’t miss anything in this fabulous collection.

— Bill M.

CONTACT US

62 Vintage Lane
Maggie Valley, North Carolina 28751
GPS: Latitude: 35.513718 // Longitude: -83.076945
Tel: (828) 926-6266
Email: info@wheelsthroughtime.com
Mail: PO Box 790 Maggie Valley, North Carolina 28751

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