Richard & Roxie Kerr of Essex Junction, Vermont is very proud of the restoration of their 1951 Cab-Over Dodge More on page 6 VAE Officers & Directors David Sander – VAE Chairman 802-434-8418 [email protected] From The PresidenT… Dan Noyes - President Dan Noyes 802-730-7171 [email protected] Dave Stone— 1st Vice & Activities Chair 802-878-5943 [email protected] Jeff Mclay— 2nd. Vice & Assistant Activity Chair 802—454-7853 [email protected] Don Pierce- Treasurer What a great year it has been for the VAE. The summer was warm and 802-879-3087 [email protected] Charlie Thompson- Recording Secretary mostly sunny, great for touring around Vermont in your antique and classic 802-878-2536 [email protected] car, except when we decided to hold a car show. I guess we could all say we Duane Leach 802-453-3743 could use the rain. Here is to next years forecast being sunny on the Fa- John Des Groseilliers 802-472-5541 thers Day when we hold our show in Shelburne and in August for the VAE Tom McHugh 802-862-1733 Car Show. Fred Cook and I went to the Vermont Technical College for their Education/ Outreach Committee award banquet recently. The six students that received the award were very appreciative. Our efforts are supporting some great college young men and women in automotive technology. Great work! Wendell Noble—Chair Gary Olney The Shelburne Show planning is well underway. This year our fea- Don Perdue– V- Chair Gael Boardman ture car will be the Camaro in recognition of its 50th anniversary. We need Ed Hilbert– Secretary John Malinowski your help to seek out unique cars for the show. Online registration is open, Tom McHugh Gary Fiske so mark your calendars and lets have a good showing of cars this year. Scott Hogaboom We are moving forward with planning for next year’s August VAE Car Show, and are happy to be working with the new director of the Stowe Membership Secretary (Ex-Officio) Area Association. We are still in negotiations with the new owner of the Christina McCaffrey Nichols field and look forward to a positive outcome. We are always in 89 Ledge Road need of help, organizing and running our shows, please consider getting Burlington VT 05401-4140 involved, the VAE needs your help. [email protected] [email protected] Many of you know that I was successful in my bid to serve in the Vermont House of Representatives. I look forward to serving my VAE Antique and Classic Car Meet (Stowe)Co-chairs community in this capacity. I will support efforts at the state level to form Bob Chase 802-253-4897 relationships with organizations like the VAE, that are working to help Duane Leach 802-849-6174 student’s transition to secondary education or employment, in automotive The Shelburne Show Chair Ernie Clerihew 802-483-6871 technology and engineering. Should you have any questions or concerns about legislation effecting antique and classic cars please feel free to give Wheel Tracks Editor (Ex-Officio) me a call or send me an e-mail. Gary Fiske Home 802-933-7780 Respectfully submitted cell 802-363-1642 [email protected] 2503 Duffy Hill Road Enosburg Falls, Vermont 05450 Edi Fiske—Wheel Tracks proof-reader Clark & Isabelle Wright- Burma Shave editors Inside This Issue…. Justin Perdue - Webmaster * American Pickers visits Vermont….Page 4 Sunshine Chair Christina McCaffrey 802-862-3133 * What is a Ostentatienne? …..Page 5 [email protected] Welcoming Committee * The December 2012 VAE Email Auction…...Page 7 David Hillman [email protected] * Did you know about the Restoration Shop in Eden?........page 12 L. Brown & Sons of Barre, VT- publisher * Clark Wright is Honored…….Page 13 Gary Fiske Wheel Tracks Membership From Your ediTor… Monthly deadline Only $30 The 10th $50 for 2 years This is the very last Wheel Tracks of 2016. Who would have guessed the year would fly by like it did. I can’t stand it when Time Magazine and many of the other national publications “waste” an issue in December by re-publishing the year’s OLD photos and articles….and call it a review. Maybe the idea is to save a penny or two but that is not what I paid for. Not here at the Wheel Tracks corporate offices...well OK….my den desk. You will see only fresh, straight off the press, brand-slam new….stuff. Although, I’m not going to guarantee top-notch, interesting stuff. I like using the word stuff and our proofreader hates it, so just for this month, OK? A lot has happened these past 30 days, it probably has to do with all of us racing to get things finished before the snow comes. Remember that item in last month’s Gossip column about a VAE member turning down American Pickers when they wanted to stop by for a visit? Well, if you read this month’s Softer Side, Nancy Olney will tell you about a VAE member who said “OK” and the TV folks visited Derby Line. I can’t wait to see the show…. Gary Olney is very suave, I wonder if they put makeup on him? I helped a neighbor yesterday trailer that 1959 Bugeye Sprite to his home, that was in our classifieds. The Bugeye was built only three years and it turns out the little car is a long-time dream of his wife Linda. Can you imagine the leverage he now has! Speaking of wives, my wife, Sharon, joined me this year for the first time at the Hershey car show. We had a great time and she also found some treasures there. She now understands why I go on and on about Hershey. The Bugeye Sprite was not the only Wheel Tracks classified that caused a stir last month. I understand the ’27 Packard created a buzz, the third generation ’84 Camaro caused some talk and that package of two dozers and the back-hoe had a “wow” factor also. You may need more storage room, or need to down-size, or you simply don’t want to finish that long running project, please consider using our classifieds, so we can “keep it in the family”. A 1919 Franklin will see it’s first attempt to find a new owner in this month’s classifieds, after spending it’s entire life with one family. Gosh, I hope it can stay in Vermont. And, about the “VAE Email Auction” experiment….it was a huge success! Every item sold. That means the auction will continue on page 7. I have a tendency of taking off on “what ifs” the minute something new comes along. The loudest “what if” that is rattling around in my brain is…..what if more folks added nice items to the auction by giving them to the VAE for our education fund??? That Craftsman air tank that was in our first auction was in great shape but the owner didn’t need it, the tank now has a new home and at a fantastic price. If you happen to have something for the auction, just contact Wendell Noble or me and we will do the rest. Remember, something nice that isn’t heading for the junk pile. To the Editor: Responding to your article in Wheel Tracks, Nov. issue “Gossip...here is a little more information on Bryce Howell’s 1927 Packard. Harris and Betty Yandow of North Ferrisburg also owned the Packard for many years. When Harris died in 1980, his son Richard owned the Packard for some time and later sold it to Peter Markowski. The Yandows lived right across the street from us for many years. They were our best friends. Thank you, Marvin Ball To the Editor: We have not been getting out much since my wife, Barbara, fell and fractured her pelvis. We are fine and I did just purchase over 500 number plates. Among them is a full set of the fifty states. Most of the others are out of states but in really good shape. I am forwarding a couple of classifieds for Wheel Tracks. Al and Barbara Ward Your editor and other authors are “How to be a member” Wheel Tracks is a monthly made aware of some new products, **Go to vtauto.org ***Contact Us At*** services or information that they newsletter published in print **Click “Join VAE” [email protected] feel may have value to VAE’s and electronically for the Or **Print form, membership. These are not an public, and for the VAE ***Our Website at*** endorsement by the VAE unless fill it out and mail it with your membership. vtauto.org otherwise noted. The opinions are $ to our secretary solely those of the particular article’s author. “The soFTer side” A Column Shared by Mary Noble (Left), Judy Boardman (center) & Nancy Olney (Right) Interesting Days from Nancy Olney As I have written before, being involved with cars has made for some very interesting happenings. When meeting new people, it seems that there is always a connection to someone or something, like the time we met a couple in South Dakota with a 4 cylinder Plymouth and he had a picture of Gary’s ’31. It had been sent to his father by Gary’s dad years before and it happened that Gary had never seen the picture! Then there are places like Hershey, where you are sure to reconnect with car enthusiasts and meet new ones. Several weeks ago, Gary received a call from the Derby Historical Society telling him that the “American Pickers” were coming to Vermont and did he want them to have his name which might give him a chance to meet them and have them at our place.