Category: Wheel Tracks
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Beware – Friday The 13th!
These BRRR mornings are reminding us that there is a cold winter to come. Cold as it is, we in Vermont have it much better than most parts of the world, so no more complaining. In Vermont, tornadoes, earthquakes, wild fires, mud slides and hurricanes are rare. Of course, there are exceptions, like the microburst…
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1972 Steyr-Puch Pinzgauer
Hank Baer’s 1972 Pinzgauer Swiss Army Radio Communication Truck. Hank is a VAE Member and also a member of the Green Mountain Military Vehicle Club. In the beginning… it was an Austrian Haflinger. The Haflinger was a series of 4×4 light utility vehicles, produced by Steyr-Puch. It was designed to replace the WWII era American jeeps.…
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Alternator Maintenance
I recently had a Subaru Outback in the shop for some extensive maintenance. I had to remove the alternator to do this work. The car had 185,000 miles on it, and still had the original alternator. I decided I would utilize the time waiting for parts to do some preventative maintenance, and overhaul the alternator…
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This is the season for church suppers…
There are church suppers everywhere… the most popular are chicken and biscuit suppers, but once in a while you will read about a ham dinner or even a game dinner. We’ve been to several in the past month and they are wonderful! A lot of the churches have been putting these suppers on for generations. They…
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1908 Model 10 Buick
A beauty of a 1908 Model 10 Buick Owned by Sandy & Tom Pierce For six months I kept noticing an ad for a 1908 Buick in Old Cars Weekly. The ad was only a phone number with no photo, so I looked up the Buick and thought it might be a great project, for…
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My ’65 MGB
My ’65 MGB story started in ’83, when I was 15 years old and was looking for my first car in anticipation of my 16 birthday. My limited funds available meant that I was looking for a deal and I would have to borrow the money to get it. My father has always been a…
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Walk a Mile in My Shoes / Everyone has a Story
Having worked in medicine for 50 years, I have had many opportunities to listen to patient’s stories concerning their health, family, friends, the town, the State and the Federal government. Some have a lot of incite and some not so much, but we listen and many times I am so taken back by what I…
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1955 Buick Special
“Cadet” is its name and Buick is its brand! Brian Warren loves Buicks… Cadet, our 1955 Buick Special. The name comes from the cadet blue metallic paint applied, by GM 60+ years ago and the fact that the Special was the entry level Buick, at that time. Not sure why I settled on Buicks other…
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More Questions About Oil
From the Editor…. Dave, would you please keep this oil discussion going? Questions….. Should we use synthetic in our old cars? What about the question of single-weight oil vs multi-weight oils in our old cars, which is best and why? You have mentioned the moisture collecting in our car’s oil pans, especially during winter storage,…
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Cats in the Woodpile
If you are reading this and are not a “cat person” do not bother to continue. But, if you tolerate them and even love them, read on. For several months this winter I was feeding two feral cats, one female and one male. The male decided that inside the house would be better than outside,…
