The Uniroyal Giant Tire was created by the United States Rubber Company for the 1964 New York World's Fair, where it functioned as a Ferris wheel.

Since 1966 it has been a static display alongside Interstate 94 in Allen Park, Michigan, United States between the Southfield Freeway interchange and Outer Drive overpass.

[9][4] During the fair, the wheel carried over 2 million people, including prominent passengers such as Jacqueline Kennedy, Telly Savalas, and the Shah of Iran.

[10] When the fair ended in 1965, US Rubber offered to donate the exhibit to the City of New York or any other entity who wanted it, citing moving costs of $300,000.

"[11] Later that year, the tire was eventually disassembled and shipped via 22 trucks[12] to Allen Park, MI (a suburb of Detroit), where it was reassembled without its passenger gondolas in 1966 as a static display outside US Rubber's Midwest corporate headquarters.