Category: Wheel Tracks
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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 style. Well, this a little different and I am calling it “first engine” and I will be telling you this story. I was built in…
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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 built three experimental prototypes with naval architect Starling Burgess – using donated money, as well as a family inheritance. This was the ground-taxiing phase of…
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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 that, we were made aware of it, and during that time of ignorant bliss, were totally naïve of the “train” that was speeding at us and…
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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…
