[Fot] Waving to ghosts

[Reed, John]

I was talking to Peter during the rain delay. He said the new management came to RT in California and said the offices are moving and none of you are coming. They basically fired everybody but Peter. Than one of the junior editors told Peter to rewrite an article. Seriously tell Peter Egan to rewrite an article. That was enough for Peter. He said he would give them the three articles he was working on and call it quits. They even fired the great motorsports photographer Jon Lamm. He did not say unemployed for long. Some say change is good. In this case I do not agree. RIP Road & Track

    John



On 9/11/13 7:23 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".

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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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