Category: Wheel Tracks
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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 he resided in the Coventry, VT farmhouse where he was born. Fred leaves his wife Vivian and five sons and daughters, three of his children…
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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 advises not to keep a hand on the gear shift lever while driving. The answer is, yes, I know. The gear shift lever is connected…
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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 throw anything out, they are mounting up. A lot of them claimed to be squirrel proof. No such thing! Occasionally, I would hang a feeder…
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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 the events, I have enjoyed your monthly magazine. The pictures and articles have sparked many memories of my past challenges with automobiles. The Model A…
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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 or car parts are hiding in there?”. My big break came for me this summer after day dreaming what buried treasures are waiting for daylight…
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A Different Kind of Pandemic Story
Since the beginning of the pandemic last year, I’ve been thinking a lot about my maternal grandfather. His name was Maurice J. Villemaire, M.D., and he served the town of Milton, Vermont, as a general practitioner for 40 years. He was born in 1902, grew up in Winooski, went to medical school at the University…
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1951 Mercury
Ken Gypson’s Journey with His Mercury Creation The old car hobby has many facets, maybe too many. Grandpa was into Maxwells, early Buicks and Pierce Arrows. Dad was into British sport cars, open wheel race cars (midgets and sprint cars) and Franklins and Packards. Me? I’m into all of the above plus vintage stock cars and…
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My stud welder/slide hammer
Happy New Year! Although 2021 will have many challenges, I truly hope we will all have a better year. Absent any questions this month, I decided I would write a review for a very affordable and useful tool. I purchased a stud welder/slide hammer from Harbor Freight. This tool allows me to pull dents out,…
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Lost – Found – Give
I do not know about you, but I ‘hate’ to lose something. I would rather drop it and see it run over by a bus (or in my case, an antique car would be more likely) and know its whereabouts and thus know what happened to it. The other is to give it away, I…
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1933 Chevrolet Master Eagle Phaeton
This 1933 Master Eagle Phaeton Chevrolet now belongs to Gary and Nancy Olney. Some of us travel to the other side of our nation in search of our treasured antique auto. For the Olneys, the car had been hiding in a barn only 20 miles away, since 1954. The picture, right, is what a couple…
