By Melissa Wagoner From the outside the Silverton Flywheels might appear to be just your average car club, with muscle cars and hot rods shined up and displayed in all their glory at every show. But the club – which is one of the oldest in Silverton, having been established way back in 1961– has always been about much more […]
By Steve Ritchie Many of us can say we’ve taken our turn leading a service club or community organization for a term of a year or two. But not many can say they spent nearly a half-century as president of such an organization. Wes Oster can. Oster stepped down in January as president of the Silverton Flywheels, one of the […]
Wes Oster believes cars and trucks are made to be driven and he has the miles on his mint condition ’56 Ford pick-up to prove it.
It was 1961 and Silverton Police Chief Vic Grossnickle had a problem. Inspired by the drag racing at the Aurora airport, some of the local kids were getting carried away – “hot-rodding around” – according to one of them, Ed Oster. Grossnickle wanted to put a stop to their illegal street racing and he thought an organized car club might help.
