Freedom to fly, drive celebrated at event

Why have a Fourth of July weekend festival that celebrates both cars and airplanes?

Ask Kim Fisher that, and shell look at you like youre a slow child.

Its part of the Freedom Fair, right? she says. Theres freedom in both -- the freedom to fly, the freedom to drive.

Thats the essential premise of Wings & Wheels, Pierce Countys annual celebration of fast machines, held at and above the Tacoma Narrows Airport.

Wings & Wheels is a companion festival to the July 4 Freedom Fair along Ruston Way, and it features not only aerial acrobatics but also buffed up vintage cars and pickup trucks.

Fisher, who lives in Spanaway, is okay with the airplanes, but she thinks of them mostly as a sideshow at Wings & Wheels.

She barely notices the Ace Maker T-33 Shooting Star, the Cobra helicopter and the P-51D Mustang.

Her passion is big Dodge muscle cars, especially her husbands 1966 Polara. Its a smooth ride but still muscular, she said. It has power.

Theres nothing like the roar of the engine of a Mopar, she said. Theres really nothing else like it.

(For the uninitiated, Mopar translates roughly to Chrysler.)

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Freedom to fly, drive celebrated at event