Category: Wheel Tracks
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Everything Was Aligned That Day!
If you’ll all allow me to gloat this month, I want to tell you about a very special young woman here in Vermont, and that’s my niece, Michelle Archer. You […]
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1929 Whippet Engine project
After much deliberation, we decided that the “spare” engine should move into the “boat anchor” category. You can see on the front page, we have installed the anchor chain. Despite […]
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1914 Cadillac Touring
Bill Fagan’s beautiful 110-year-old Cadillac has some stories to tell. That includes being found in this Maine barn, to the left, when the 2nd owner came along in 1943 to […]
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Age is Just a Number
Maybe it was the fact that the year turned to 2024 and we were inundated with all the happenings of 2023 that got me thinking of my age. I admit, […]
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1930 Ford Model A Pickup
Travis Cook found this 1929 Ford Model A pickup, with a blown engine, listed for sale in Wheel Tracks six years ago. Since he had a fine “pickled” engine at […]
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Shifting to Winter Mode
Well, it happened again. It was like shifting from first to reverse, going from summer to winter gear. It usually happens sometime in the end of September when I start […]
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1980 MGB Mark IV
This MGB beauty is owned by VAEer Jim Adams of Jericho, Vermont. Jim Adams writes: In the spring of 1983 on my daily drive to my office, I drove by […]
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Happy 90th Birthday, Mom!
My mother celebrated her 90th birthday last month. It really got me thinking about how we throw around the terms “old folks,” “elderly,” “getting up there,” etc. That is definitely […]
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Happy Birthday Vermont Automobile Enthusiasts!
Lloyd Davis’s Antique Car in 1953 was a 1925 Davis, one of 692 made that year in Richmond, Indiana. Lloyd is pictured above, not because of his car, but because […]
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What Difference 70 Years Makes!
In 1953, I was 5 years old and anxiously waiting to start first grade the next year. There was no kindergarten, no Head Start, no play schools, so you just […]