Category: Wheel Tracks
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Safe At Any Speed
I think I can speak for us all in saying that what makes our vintage cars appealing to us are the ways in which they differ from the modern everyday drivers that we all own. By comparison to my prewar collection of cars, modern cars are more powerful, reliable, comfortable, fuel efficient, and full of…
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Morning at Speed
Below is a car-themed poem I wrote last spring as part of a lot of writing I’ve been doing since Nancy died last January. It is based on an extraordinary early morning drive Nancy & I shared in the summer of 1964 in our then new Triumph Spitfire when we were in Europe for the summer…
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1933 Cadillac Town Coupe
Ken and Sandy Green of Cumming, Georgia are new VAE members. They brought their 1933 Cadillac Town Coupe to the August 2025 show in Waterbury and it was judged Best in Show – Prewar as well as 1st place in Class 3. The original mission was to bring my freshly restored 1940 Roadmaster convertible to…
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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 in his family tree. The Lexington Motor Company was established in 1909 in Lexington, Kentucky. That’s Kentucky, not Massachusetts, although the connection was not lost on…
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Crossroads
As much as I love to write (and I am sure you love to read) about my fabulous kitty cat Willy and my ongoing old-age sagas, I need to talk to you about a more important subject. I feel we, the membership of the VAE, have come to a crossroad; basically, in a few words, the club needs…
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1960 Ford F100
Robert Turner’s 1960 Ford F100 just happens to be for sale! My 1960 Ford F100 that I call Fridge has a 223 inline six with “three on the tree.” Her engine was professionally rebuilt by RPM engines in Milton a few years ago, and has been very reliable. It is my summer daily driver. Whenever…
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Now Who Are You?
This seems to be happening more frequently lately. For a while I thought it was my (old) age, but I’m beginning to think that it isn’t. This is happening to a lot of younger folks, even my kids who are now all middle aged: Not being able to remember people’s names. How many times have…
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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. As soon as I got out of the car, a young boy came over immediately to examine it. I would guess his age to be…
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1996 Mazda Miata MX-5
It all started back in 2017 at our 59th annual car show. Dave Sander had brought the 1990 Mazda Miata to the Stowe car show. I had been wanting to drive it, but I didn’t know how to drive a manual car. He got into the passenger seat and said, “Hop in!” We stayed on…
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Time to Vacuum
Well, they’re driving me crazy again this year! I always thought they were an infestation of the common ladybugs that we see in the garden in the summer and think “how cute.” Not! I have come to learn these are Asian lady beetles. The Asian lady beetle arrived in New England through both intentional introductions and accidental…
