A. B. Bonds wrote:
>
> In <c=US%a=_%p=TCI%l=TCI/HERMES/001E7CBA@brahms.tci.com>, Haynes, Daniel
>wrote:
> >I love music and the songs are great, but my first experience with an MG
> >came
> >about because of a Scholastic book bought at school. When I was an
> >elementary child (during the 60's), I bought and read a book called "MG
> >Racer". It was about a young teenager who bought and raced an MG TC.
> >There
> >was the crusty old mechanic who helped him learn to race, showed him
> >that the
> >tach was more important than the speedometer, you get the picture.
> >
> Not quite. It was called "The Red Car", and involved a young feller
> named Hap and the Crusty Old Mechanic (stock character) was Frenchy Le
> Becque (or something like that), a Grand Prix champion who quit racing
> because he had an accident in which someone was killed.
>
> The book extols TC's, tolerates TD's and besmirches TF's. My car is
> Red, but it's a TD. I'm not as lucky as Hap....
>
> >I lost the book, but gained a love for the marquee. If anyone knows
> >where to
> >find that title or has also read the book, l'd love to chat about it.
> >
> I have a copy of it, but hold it firmly and reread it every few years
> for inspiration.... I can get the author's name, it was a Scholastic
> Book Club publication, copyright about 1960, obviously no ISBN.
>
> There are also the Henry Gregor Felsen books. Not British iron, but
> filled with hotrods and teenagers with raging hormones.
>
> Driving is better than reading, but only just A. B. Bonds
At one of our New England MGT Resister meets, the author of the Little
Red Car was a guest. He was very kind to sign the copies of the books
we brought with us as well as ones he brought to sell. He said he
never really understood the popularity of his book but appreciated our
enthusiasm for the car. My copy now has his signature. Sadly, he
passed shortly after our meet.
Dave Houser
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