Category: Wheel Tracks
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Rebuilding Brake Calipers
Years ago I would routinely rebuild brake calipers. Caliper rebuild kits seemed to approach the cost of purchasing a rebuilt caliper. For decades I would routinely purchase rebuilt calipers and […]
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This and That
It’s May – yeah! “April showers bring May flowers” and, hopefully, a lot of old “normal” for all of us. Did you know that phrase, according to George Latimer Apperson’s […]
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1905 Orient Buckboard Engine
I am finally running again! Some say it has been sixty years. Others say closer to 85 years. Good Morning…. I think this is called “first person”, when it comes to writing […]
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The Dymaxion Car
From Dave’s guest this month, Don Tenerowicz The Dymaxion car was designed by American inventor Buckminster Fuller during the Great Depression and featured prominently at Chicago’s 1933/1934 World’s Fair. Fuller […]
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What a difference a year makes
It is hard to believe, but it has been a year since COVID-19 reared its ugly head and put us in lockdown. Though I think it was around several months before […]
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Fred Webster 1921– 2021
Fred Webster was just a few days from a drive-by birthday party, he would have been 100 years old when he died on January 17th 2021. Most of his years […]
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One Hand on the Lever
This month’s question comes from Wendell Noble. Anyone who knows Wendell and Mary know they have a preference for manual transmissions. Wendell asked me if I knew why his owner’s manual […]
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My Window Feeder
Last Fall I bought a new bird feeder. I have quite a collection of feeders, bird seed and suet, in various stages of disrepair in the cellar and because I can’t […]
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1931 Ford Model A & Deluxe Model A History
I became a member of VAE just a few years ago when I registered my 1967 Austin Healey 3000 MK III . Although I have never participated in any of […]
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Dave has a guest this month…
Paul Baresel from Buxton, Maine I have never not known a car enthusiast pass by an old barn, or even a collapsing old barn, and ask themselves “What old car […]