I recently found a book on the giveaway pile at the local library by author
Henry Gregor Felsen, and it brought back memories of all his car related
novels I read as a kid.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: spridgets-bounces@autox.team.net [mailto:spridgets-
> bounces@autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Ron Soave
> Sent: Sunday, July 26, 2009 9:12 AM
> To: Spridgets
> Subject: [Spridgets] The Red Car and camshaft
>
> Am on vacation, and picked up a copy of the classic book "The Red Car",
> read in a day on the beach. Everyone on this list should read this
> classic of a 16 year old kid in 1954 fixing a wrecked 1948 MG TC to go
> racing. I was born way too late to have even known this book existed
> until recently, but it's dead-center on about how most of us felt the
> first time we saw these cars.
>
> Last, but not least controversially, I recently posted a camshaft 4
> sale. It was bought buy a lister who mic'd it and found it within the
> tolerances of a new one. It saw duty in a mild race motor from 2003 to
> 2005 with Redline oil. That's Redline Oil - the synthetic stuff used by
> most of the vintage racers.
>
> Ron
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