Category: Wheel Tracks
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1955 17 foot Shepard Runabout
Selby & Maureen Turners’ 17 foot Shepard Runabout. It’s winter, the snow swirls around my storage barn, just feet away from the Lake and safely tucked in among the cedars on Isle La Motte. I enter, almost tentatively because I’ve not been in for several weeks. I flick on the lights and suddenly the 35×75′…
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One Thing Leads to…
With no questions to answer this month, I thought I would share an interesting story. Have you ever been putting off a big job, expecting it to be difficult, only to be pleasantly surprised at how simple it is? I have had this happen to me. I have also had what should be very simple…
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Because Nice Matters
Welcome 2019! As we head down this new year’s road, I’d like to tell you a little bit about a very special per-son. She has shared duties of contributing articles for “The Softer Side” for a number of years but has decided to officially retire, and Wheel Tracks Editor Gary Fiske asked me if I…
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1935 Packard Limousine
Tom Noble’s 1935 Packard Limousine I think the best way to tell the story of the car is in two parts – first the part I know is actually true, and secondly the part that might be complete bunk… The car is a 1935 Packard V-12 limousine that my grandfather, Bert Pulsifer, acquired sometime during the…
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Rust Repair
Recently I have had two cars in the garage for rust repair, a Saab 900 and an MGB. The interesting thing is, on each car the rust was caused by poor body work. Each car had plastic body filler repairing a dent. The body filler was applied to bare metal. At some point, the body…
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Ramblings of a ‘Mature Lady’
As I ‘mature’ it seems that I become more aware or should say irritated with things happening around me, i.e. the idea that school should start an hour or more later in the mornings, to allow our children to “get more rest”, and thus they will certainly do much better in school. Poppy cot!! What…
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Automotive Paints
This month’s question comes from Wendell Nobel: Dave, I would love to read a little dissertation on automotive paints. I recall a day when GM cars were all painted with acrylic lacquer and Fords were acrylic enamel. Now we have polyurethane base coat with clear coat, single stage urethane and even some water based stuff.…
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1966 Chevrolet Corvette Stringray
This is Len & Jeanne Pallotta’s 1966 Stingray Corvette. This is part of the Corvette story written by Len Pallotto in 2005 for Wheel Tracks…. “Our Corvette” My interest in Corvettes probably started back in 1954 when some friends and I attended the General Motors Motorama Show in Boston where the highlight of the show,…
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1911 Flanders Roadster Banner
The Shelburne Museum/VAE Father’s Day Auto Festival Award….. Most Original (Unrestored ): 1910 Flanders, owned by Vin Cassidy Vin Cassidy, pictured left, has had the Flanders for a number of years. Wheel Tracks understands that Vin found the chassis and running gear in Massachusetts from Carl Weber. The body was found in Iowa some seven…
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Your Car Engine on an Oscilloscope
Guest mechanic this month started with an article from Ken Barber and finished by Wheel Tracks When an oscilloscope is used by a mechanic to tune your engine, the picture to the left is what one good cylinder looks like during one firing cycle. An oscilloscope allows you to see the voltage pattern of anything…
