EPISODE · Dec 1, 2025 · 38 MIN
Powerama 1955: When GM Ruled The Earth They Put On The Greatest Horsepower Show of All Time
from The Dork-O-Motive Podcast · host Brian Lohnes
In 1955 General Motors decided to put on a show, not just any show, a gathering of vehicles, horsepower, and entertainment the likes of which the world had never seen before and never saw again. Powerama was a one million square foot fantasyland of every off-highway division of General Motors on display. Dubbed the "World's Fair of Power" it had locomotives, bulldozers, elephants, aircraft, tanks, a submarine, pleasure craft, a shrimp boat, the Motorama dream cars, an 85-ton cannon known as Atomic Annie, and more and more and more. In this history we investigate the genesis of the event, the execution of the event, and the machines that made it one of the most unique gatherings in the gearhead history of Earth. Seriously, this is wild.
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In 1955 General Motors put on a show called Powerama which was dubbed as the World’s Fair of Power and it was incredible. Bulldozers, tractors, dump trucks as swimming pools, show cars, and more. 2.2 million people attended the show over the course of a month...and it never happened again. This is the story of that show.
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