Author: Gael Boardman
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Idle Time is Memories Motivation
The other day, looking for “busy work” so as to avoid jobs like cleaning the cellar, etc., I chanced on my teens era RCA Victrola. It’s a trade model and has always been quite good. I put on a Victor “double disc” record, wound up the machine, released the turntable brake and awaited music. The…
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1918 G-48 Locomobile Sportif
Judy and Gael Boardman’s dual ignition, 5200 pound, 48HP beauty Why a Locomobile? In the early 1950’s the Goodyear Tire Company would publish a 2-page centerfold advertisement in the Saturday Evening Post showing a pictorial history of cars with Goodyear tires. These were great little pictures and my most favorite was 1925… a Locomobile Sportif.…
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V.A.E. – The Founders (The First in a Series)
Like many things, “home grown” is often best… and so it was with VAE. Springing from a husband‘s interest, (obsession, in her mind) Anne Gypson encouraged the formation of the kind of club for others like Ken Gypson to share their interest and enthusiasm. She couldn‘t have possibly known the consequences of her actions. Here,…
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The Value in Becoming a Member of VAE
Let’s see. Should I join an old car club: ____YES or ___NO? This may not have been a pressing question for you and you may or may not have done so. I did, in 1954 and I’m glad I did. Let me tell you why. First, we should assume that you have a pretty strong…
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Thoughts on the Mini Cooper
Some time back my wife Judy saw and admired the new BMW resurrected Mini Cooper. She likes small cars and really liked this one. “It shouldn’t be that expensive”… she thought… but it was. Admittedly they were kind of neat I thought… but quite beyond budget. “How about one of the originals?”, I suggested. They…
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Food for Cars – Motoring Moment
This “moment” may be food for thought… but more exactly it’s food for the car. Food for most cars is gasoline and today we are going to give this wondrous stuff some thought. Well, not really the gas so much as the way the vehicles gets its “food”. Most of the early cars with their…
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1915 Cornelian – Motoring Moment
…in some people’s blood… witness stock car racing as the world’s largest spectator sport. How about “blood” being in racing? In 1915 Howard E. Blood got into American auto racing big time. To get his new cycle car off the ground, Howard had big plans for his little car. The car was the Cornelian, a…
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Stirling Engine – Motoring Moment
Do you think that modern technology can tease 200 horsepower out of 57 cubic inches of displacement? Wow, how fast would it have to turn and could you do it on standard fuel and would it pollute? Almost 200 years, around 1820 it was done… by a Scottish minister named Robert Stirling. You may have…
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Takes a Licking, Keeps on Smoking
With apologies to the Timex people, here is another chapter in the 76-year-old life of this Willys Knight coupe, model 56. As pictured in the VAE 40th commemorative book as the car with the most VAE member owners it seems to have been adopted yet again. Some history would include that fact that the Knight…
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Tires – Motoring Moment
Today’s tenuous transportation topic is tires. You probably know quite a lot about tires… there are at least 4 to the average car and really necessary for a number of reasons. Depending on your personal auto interest, and the older your car, the more you know. Tires by design and manufacture have greatly improved in…