Bought that book from the Scholastic Book Club in junior high school in the
early '60s. Probably made more of an impression on me than "Catcher in the
Rye", "Moby Dick" and all the others assigned to me in school. Once I got my
first car (a red Bugeye, natch) I identified even more strongly with Hap.I
know Peter Egan was a big Red Car fan and Burt Levy's stuff seems to e
influenced by the book as well. Amazingly, it's been re-issued and it's
available from Amazon: http://tinyurl.com/ls6ufy If you love sports cars and
have never read this book, you owe it to yourself to check it out.
--- On Sun, 7/26/09, David Lieb <72spridget@gmail.com> wrote:
From: David Lieb <72spridget@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Spridgets] The Red Car and camshaft
To: "Ron Soave" <soavero@yahoo.com>, "Spridgets" <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Date: Sunday, July 26, 2009, 11:05 AM
> 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.
I have a copy of that book myself and agree wholeheartedly. Well worth
the price.
David L
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