Category: Wheel Tracks
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Been there, done it in a Probe
I admit it. I’m not that into cars. If it has 4 tires and a steering wheel and can get me to where I want to go safely, I’m happy. My husband, on the other hand, is what you’d all call “a car guy.” Over the years he’s purchased antique (I say old) cars and…
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Saab 900
Absent any questions this month, I will briefly discuss some cars in my shop this month. Both of my sons now have cars. I wanted their first cars to be something durable, safe and inexpensive. Somehow, each of them ended up with a Saab 900 four door. When I learned how to drive, people maintained…
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1926 Ford Model T Speedster
There is a new “muscle car” in town and hang-on Lucy if you want to race! This Ford Model T Speedster is the creation of VAEer, Dennis Dodd of East Fairfield, Vermont. Dennis has the Patience of Jobe, as this #7 is his 2nd version of the same speedster and has just recently exited his garage, complete and ready to run.…
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What Things Have Changed?
Every time I go to Williston and pass by Friendly’s restaurant, I remember my days in X-Ray school when we would collect our paychecks (second year students were paid $80/month plus call pay, usually amounted to about $160) and we would head out for Friendly’s for a cheeseburger deluxe and milkshake. The burger used bread…
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The Classic Auto Festival at Shelburne Museum
A collaboration between the museum and our VAE, June 15 & 16. The first was in 1969 and it was called the “Shelburne Vintage Automobile Exposition”. Different name, same great fun. June of 1995 was the 17th VAE Annual Vermont Auto Expo at the Essex Jct. fairgrounds and it’s last. From old Wheel Tracks archives, the weather…
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Some Serious Cleaning!
Circumstances, here at home, have forced me to do some serious cleaning. I always said that Gael was the hoarder, but I have added my name to that list. When you live in a house for fifty years, things accumulate, especially if you have room in closets and spare rooms. That’s the case here. I…
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The 12,806 Mile Quest for Old Cars by a couple of VAEers….
Gary Olney and Vin Cassidy have “the old car syndrome” that most of us have. Our level might be called a “melody”, theirs might be called a “fever level”….just an opinion, mind you. Here is an attempt to track their travels that took place in about a period of one month. Please excuse us if…
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A Celebration of Family
For eighteen years, the Austin extended family have toured the Northeast U.S in their old cars. Above is part of their 2006 tour that included the Champlain Transportation Museum in Plattsburg. The young-ones are “trying out” the museum’s pedal car collection.There is something always planned for everyone, young and older. A Celebration of Family, from…
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A Positively Good Idea
Recently I attended a SCCV driving event. Part of their pre-event inspection is verification of a cover for the hot battery terminal. I checked my car a few days before, and realized the positive battery terminal was not covered. I spent a minute thinking of all the possible ways the positive terminal could be accidentally…
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25th Anniversary Milestone
Anne was unavailable this month for her column, so instead, we have gone back in the Wheel Tracks archives to the 1980s. Enjoys…… Al Ward’s 1982 “25th Anniversary Milestone” Poem. Some 25 years ago at a lovely place called Stowe Stood five old cars pushed all in a row. The occasion of which was a…
