Category: Wheel Tracks
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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…
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1913 Board-track racing Indian and 1910 Harley Davidson Model-F motorcycles
On the left we have a 1913 Board-track racing Indian motorcycle – On the right, a 1910 Harley Davidson motorcycle This beautiful 1913 Indian board-track racing motorcycle is owned by Skip Weeks of Collinsville, Connecticut. He found a few parts of the engine for sale and decided to pass. Then a call came and he was…
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Z Car Update
Absent any questions this month, I will give a brief Z car update. The car is a 1972 Datsun 240Z receiving a total restoration. The car had significant rust in the lower body panels and floor. The left side was much worse than the right side. Work on the left quarter panel is progressing. The…
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Preserving
Rhubarb!! We are overwhelmed with it. There is just so much you can eat.Friends either really like it or really don’t like it, so I can only give away so much. I would love to freeze some, but the freezer is full. We just have the freezer that is with the refrigerator…no large separate one.…
