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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, you can avoid putting more money into the coffers of Saudi Arabia. Just buy from gas companies that don’t import their oil from the Saudis.…

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. 1940s Buick introduces front/rear directional signaling with self-canceling switch. 1950s Safety belts become optional equipment in some vehicles 1960s Federal law mandates front safety belts…

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 home located in the city of St. Albans) was established by the Shapiro Brothers. This yard was formed as a source for their used parts…

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 car, but the ’32 Chevy coach was attractive, was older than I was and was only $15 dollars. In fairly rapid succession I then acquired…

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 grapevine, I heard about some Highwheeler parts in Washington State. I tracked them down and called their owner. He stated that they were not for…

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 awhile ago, leading up to the time when I first started to drive. As an aside, it was a toss-up as to which car looked…

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 German engineer who was developing the internal combustion engine. Ford became very interested, some say infatuated, and he decided to build his own. He soon…