Category: Wheel Tracks Academy
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Lexington?
Will all those who have heard of the Lexington automobile please raise their hands. Hmm … I see but one. That’s the hand of VAE member Hamilton Hayes. There’s one […]
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Hope for the Future
Our September VAE event was a very nice gathering of members with their cars on display at the Burnham Memorial Library in Colchester. I arrived in my ’29 Plymouth roadster. […]
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AI and Us
The media, Wall Street gurus, and us plebeian folks are all atwitter about A1 (Artificial Intelligence). What is it? Where is it? Will it take away our jobs? Will it […]
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SUVs are Us
I’m a member of a vanishing minority group. I don’t own an SUV as my everyday driver passenger car. As we all know, SUV is an acronym for Sport Utility […]
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Planned Obsolescence
I was recently fussing about the apparent intent of Microsoft to torpedo Windows 10 users to force them to upgrade to Windows 11 which, in most cases, means the cost […]
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Adding Overdrive to an Old Jeep
Anyone who has driven an early Jeep can tell you they are very fun little vehicles that will go pretty much anywhere. They can also tell you they are very […]
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Thermodynamics and Theology
Thermodynamics is a word we’ve probably all heard but don’t use much. Certainly, many of us aren’t sure what it means. It would be good if we did because, after […]
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This, That & the Other
Cheyenne Martindale took off like a rocket out of Bradford last year! Her destination was Lincoln Technical Institute. She graduates this September and her grade point average is in the […]
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How Do You Make Antifreeze
One of the most effective coolants for water-cooled engines is, you guessed it, water. Water is a good heat conductor and has a high heat capacity, meaning it can absorb […]
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The Planetary Gearset
In my last article, I wrote up the basics of the automatic transmission. One of the key components that I talked about was the planetary (or epicyclic) gearset, and in […]
