Now ya done it, Jack. I'm gonna have to take this over to the Friends of
Triumph list and ask him. Kas is on it.
Hey, Kas -- the discussion on Wheel to Wheel is on the quote in the message
below (Jack was replying to my original message).
What others have determined is the original probably came from a couple of
lines in "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck, in a discussion by two characters
about making the best of what you have:
"You can't make a racehorse of a pig," said Adam.
"No," said Samuel, "but you can make a very fast pig."
The quote below also was purported by someone else as having come from Herb
Adams in reference to the Bob Tullius Pontiac Tempest (the Gray Ghost). So,
is this something you picked up and ran with, sometime pre-Akin or
pre-Adams? Would you recall an occasion?
[Ah, the items of importance that crop up during the off-season] :-)
--Rocky Entriken
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jack Marr" <jmarr@txol.net>
To: "Rocky Entriken" <rocky@tri.net>; "Kent Gittings"
<bigplanetexec@msn.com>
Cc: "W2W" <wheeltowheel@wheeltowheel.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 5:00 PM
Subject: Re: Equal pigs (was Re: CART Flagging)
> Kas Kastner said it many years before Akin.
>
> > The exact quote I have, which is attributed to Akin on race car prep, is
> > "You can't make a race horse out of a pig ... but if you work at it hard
> > enough you can make a mighty fast pig."
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