[Fot] Waving to ghosts

Wed Sep 11 09:31:01 MDT 2013

As my wife mentioned while reading these messages out loud, "They don't
care!"  The frustration is that the new product seems to indicate that
youth must be served.  I mean, how many times did you read the words
"sucks" or "douche bag" in the old R&T?  Classy outfit now, eh?

mike kowalski
FP 1500 spit

On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 9:24 AM, Reed, John <John.Reed at wilson.com> wrote:

>  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".
>
> 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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