Author: Gary Fiske

Not a lot was written about 1957 other than a race up the Mt. Mansfield Toll Road by a Stanley Steamer and a Model T. In the 1958 VAE Show, there were eleven cars registered. This year, we expect over 600 registrations in 34 classes. We have grown-up!  The Stanley Steamer won the race in 1957. It turns…

A collaboration between the museum and our VAE, June 15 & 16. The first was in 1969 and it was called the “Shelburne Vintage Automobile Exposition”. Different name, same great fun.  June of 1995 was the 17th VAE Annual Vermont Auto Expo at the Essex Jct. fairgrounds and it’s last. From old Wheel Tracks archives, the weather…

For eighteen years, the Austin extended family have toured the Northeast U.S in their old cars. Above is part of their 2006 tour that included the Champlain Transportation Museum in Plattsburg. The young-ones are “trying out” the museum’s pedal car collection.There is something always planned for everyone, young and older.   A Celebration of Family, from…

Bob Chase seems the happiest when he is around Military vehicles, like this moment when he was unloading an M37 truck at the show field.  He has been a co-chair of our August show since 2004.  Duane Leach joined him in 2010 and together, they have exceeded all our expectations. The two live on opposite…

Selby & Maureen Turners’ 17 foot Shepard Runabout.  It’s winter, the snow swirls around my storage barn, just feet away from the Lake and safely tucked in among the cedars on Isle La Motte. I enter, almost tentatively because I’ve not been in for several weeks. I flick on the lights and suddenly the 35×75′…

Tom Noble’s 1935 Packard  Limousine I think the best way to tell the story of the car is in two parts – first the part I know is actually true, and secondly the part that might be complete bunk… The car is a 1935 Packard V-12 limousine that my grandfather, Bert Pulsifer, acquired sometime during the…

This is Len & Jeanne Pallotta’s 1966 Stingray Corvette. This is part of the Corvette story written by Len Pallotto in 2005 for Wheel Tracks…. “Our Corvette” My interest in Corvettes probably started back in 1954 when some friends and I attended the General Motors Motorama Show in Boston where the highlight of the show,…

On the left we have a 1913 Board-track racing Indian motorcycle  – On the right, a 1910 Harley Davidson motorcycle This beautiful 1913 Indian board-track racing motorcycle is owned by Skip Weeks of Collinsville, Connecticut. He found a few parts of the engine for sale and decided to pass. Then a call came and he was…

Is this the same #67 in both pictures?  Ken Gypson’s ‘37 Ford has been around creating history for 81 years and still going strong.  Hal Boardman’s diorama proves the car still inspires… From VAEer, Hal Boardman … Two years ago the VAE ventured south to Bennington for a Hemmings cruise-in and a visit to our hosts, Ken…