Category: More Articles
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Where Is Your Gasoline Coming From?
Are you buying gasoline from the Middle East? The Saudis are boycotting American goods right now so perhaps we should return the favor. Every time you fill up the car, […]
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Auto Safety Through The Years
1920s Cadillac is the first car with safety glass windows as standard equipment. First electric windshield wiper introduced. 1930s Sun visors and electric turn signals were introduced on most models. […]
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The Junk Yard
In the early 1940s a junkyard which included all sorts of very old vehicles and eventually comprised both sides of the street where I lived (about ¼ mile from my […]
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First Car Woes
I came into ownership of my first car in 1950. It was a ’32 model and I was a ’38. I would have preferred something older, a roadster or touring […]
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Of Highwheelers and Cadillacs
A tale of how a 1912 IHC Highwheeler begat a 1906 Cadillac… It all started out with a search for some parts for a 1912 International Highwheeler. Somewhere through the […]
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Recollections
Having taken the “Old Geezer” test in the last issue of Wheel Tracks and getting a perfect score, I started to think about some of the other things which happened […]
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A Brief Ford History
Henry Ford started his working life as an engineer with the Edison Lighting Company Detroit, in 1884. Ford by chance, came across a science journal written by Nicholas Otto, a […]