[Spridgets] The Red Car and camshaft

[WeslakeMonza1330 at aol.com]

Is it as good as Four Wheel Drift?  Four Wheel Drift is the story of a  guy 
who builds his own race car using a modified engine (2 flat twins making a  
flat 4 - clearly decades ahead of it's time and Radical sports cars).
 
Weslake-Monza 1330
 
In a message dated 26/07/2009 18:40:55 GMT Daylight Time,  
healeyrick at yahoo.com writes:

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 at gmail.com> wrote:

From: David Lieb  <72spridget at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Spridgets] The Red Car and  camshaft
To: "Ron Soave" <soavero at yahoo.com>, "Spridgets"  <spridgets at 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