[Shotimes] Peter Egan Thoughts

[Donald Mallinson]

For those who have ever built an engine and prepared to 
start it for the first time:

I found an old Road & Track magazine that had gotten buried 
before I read it.  The column by Peter Egan was about how he 
finally got his Jag XKE project car going after a four year 
restoration.

This was one of his classic tales of working with British 
sports cars, and I particularly like this thought (not an 
exact quote, but close):

"When starting the engine for the first time after the 
rebuild, I reached for the starter button and felt like a 
Neanderthal Man.  Shaking a stick at a Woolly Mammoth having 
never seen one before, and wondering what would happen."

Many of us have been there.  I almost fell out of my chair 
when I read it.

Egan is one of the best automotive humorists alive, and the 
only reason I subscribe to Road & Track.

Don Mallinson