[Fot] Waving to ghosts

[michael kowalski]

And what you didn't mention is that Mr. Egan's departure will be the final
nail in the R&T coffin after their revamping of staff and format.  I have
subscribed to (or collected other's throw aways of) R&T for nearly 50 years
and am quitting with Mr. Egan's "retirement."  The times, they are a
changing.  Oops, they have changed.  I hope that someone is telling this to
Mr. Webster.

mike kowalski,
FP 1500 spit

p.s., I have saved them all and will resort to reading the real R&T's.


On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 6:23 AM, SCOTT JANZEN <sjanzen at me.com> wrote:

> Wait, what? Peter Egan is laying down his pen? I've been reading R&T since
> 1971, when I was 13.
> Without his column I'm not sure I'll continue with R&T.
> His column on "lifetime cylinder count" prompted me to buy a used Jag V12
> - one of the greatest highway cars I ever had. I've nodded my head in
> agreement with what he expresses almost every time, howling with laughter
> more often then not.
> Guess I'll have to stick with reading "re-runs".
>
> Sent from my mobile device
>
> On Sep 10, 2013, at 10:26 PM, Mark J Bradakis <mark at bradakis.com> wrote:
>
> >   Those old men and women along the road remember.  They weren't
> >   waving to us.  They were waving to the ghosts of those who once
> >   drove our cars absolutely as fast as they knew how to go.
> >
> >
> > The above is a quote from a Peter Egan article in Road & Track some
> years ago, when he and Gil Nickel
> > attended the Mille Miglia in one of the Ferraris I continue to lust
> over.  Great story, November of
> > 1995, as I recall.  And it was sad to hear that Peter Egan would be
> setting down his pen, no more to
> > grace the pages of the magazine with his well appreciated efforts.
> >
> > I do remember seeing a Ferrari or two at Road America, and one would be
> hard pressed to not notice
> > a certain large red truck and trailer, disgorging decidedly non-Italian
> vehicles.  Well, the lines
> > of that little red one could have been mistaken for Italian, despite the
> underpinnings.
> >
> > But the weekend was about *Triumphs* for us, Triumphs of so many
> descriptions and varieties and colors
> > and prep levels - an amazing array.  There were more racing GT6s there
> than there were Triumphs of any
> > description at the Utah Kastner Cup.  Triumphs and their people, the
> people that keep the sporting
> > heritage alive and well, who continue to drive the cars absolutely as
> fast as they know how to go.
> >
> > It was a remarkable weekend, I am so happy to have been blessed with the
> chance to attend, thanks to
> > the efforts of folks that know in their hearts what an incredible group
> of masters and misfits we have
> > here in the FOT.
> >
> > mjb.
> >
> >
> >
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