I too am a Peter Egan fan. Hard to understand the use of Entropy in
this case, but I'm probably being too literal since I'm fighting the
IQ-sapping nature of Maui by reading books on intercellular
information exchange. Lots of entropy tossed around to balance those
equations, and it throws me for a loop. Slow going and it makes me
testy.
I do think I'm losing my marbles. I spent the non-surfing parts of the
last few days building a trailer to drag a 12 foot stand up paddle
surfboard behind my motorcycle ( http://www.kenalu.com/). You might
ask why, and the answer is "I have no idea". What I really need here
is Susan's flame job Isetta with a big surfboard rack. The board would
be much, much bigger than the car.
Walter sounds like a real treasure. What issue is the article in? I'd
like to read it.
On Dec 1, 2008, at 7:03 AM, BillDentin@aol.com wrote:
> Amici...
>
> I am sure we have more than a few Peter Egan fans on the FOT List.
> Peter was
> the Honorary Grand Marshall and Featured Banquet Speaker at the
> Elkhart Lake
> Vintage Festival at ROAD AMERICA a couple of months back. Austin
> Healey
> Sprite was the featured marque, and Mr. Egan has owned and raced
> more than his fair
> share. Team Thicko Flounder and premier Sprite owner Wm. Severin
> Thompson
> provided a Sprite named WALTER for Peter and wife Barb to use all
> week end. It
> was a really special car (UN-restored original racer from the Hey
> Day) still
> sporting tech stickers for the 50s and 60s. Peter's article
> embraces the car's
> innocence, purity, and the ton of memories it stirs in his heart.
>
> I like everything Peter Egan writes. At the end of the article he
> says, "
> Maybe in our constant club-racer quest to make our cars faster,
> safer, and 'more
> reliable' we pushed for changes that simply accelerated the rate of
> entropy.
> Every class of production racing does this, of course, until it
> finally brings
> on its own demise. Or metamorphoses into some generic, tube-framed
> parody of
> its form self, as "stock cars" have done." And, of course, I loved
> the
> classic Egan ending that reads, "So it was fun to drive WALTER just
> for the pure
> innocence of the thing; my first drive in a steroid free competition
> sports
> car. We were a little slower than the other vintage race cars, but
> we drove all
> weekend on the same head gasket. Something I've never tried before."
>
> Bill Dentinger
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