Category: Wheel Tracks
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Stupid Engineering
I trust that many of us are old enough to remember who Rube Goldberg was. He was, among other things, an engineer and a cartoonist. He is best known for his humorous cartoons depicting complicated mechanisms to perform simple tasks. His designs were fictitious, but I’ve encountered some real-life examples that have gotten into production…
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Just Don’t Drop It
I’ve always had a love affair…..with glass: blown glass, fused glass, stained glass, mosaic glass, crystal…. If it’s glass and it sparkles, I’m all in. A few years ago, Don and I were traveling in western New York, and we stopped at the Corning Museum of Glass in Rochester, NY. Talk about glass! It is…
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1964 Ford F-100 Custom Cab Pickup
In 1991, my father-in-law and two brothers-in-law loaded in my 1988 Astro conversion van and headed to Lawton, Oklahoma, to visit my brother-in-law in the army. I started looking around for a Chevy without much luck, but found this truck in the newspaper in Wichita Falls, Texas. We took a ride down to check it…
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Where Is It?
Among the names on the long list of people I had never heard of was Jim Moylan. From what I have read recently, he was well known in certain circles. He invented the Moylan Arrow, which I also had not heard of. While working for Ford in the ‘80s, he had the same experience most…
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A Cure for Whatever Ailment
I’ve been looking at an old ledger that my daughter Susan had at her house. The earliest date is August 1853. She had forgotten all about it, and it surfaced one day when she was cleaning some corner of her house. The first page has this entry: Franklin, VT, Journal, S.P. and R. Gates. Gael’s…
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1970 Volvo 1800E
Allen Begnoche’s brother originally bought this 1970 Volvo 1800E in Vermont in 2005 and it has been shipped back and forth several times from Mesa, Arizona. The Volvo now resides in South Burlington with its current owners, Allen and Erin Begnoche. I am a fairly new member of VAE, and after reading through the latest…
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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…
