[Spridgets] The Red Car and camshaft

[David Booker]

Henry Gregor Felsen wrote lots of great books.  I've read most of them but not
all.  I will grab a copy every time I see one come up on eBay.  I first read
them when I was in grade school.  I actually met H.G. Gregor at the SEMA show
in something like 1990 or so.  He was selling a box set of his entire works. 
Unfortunately I did not have the money to buy a set.  I did shake his hand and
tell him that his books were at least partly to blame for me being a life-long
gearhead, getting into the automotive industry once I got out of college, and
therefore standing in Vegas at the show right then.  He was a really neat
guy.
 
P.S. I read "the Red Car" earlier this year on recommendation of a friend. 
Another great one. 
 
 - David

--- On Sun, 7/26/09, Wm. Severin Thompson <wmseverin at charter.net> wrote:


From: Wm. Severin Thompson <wmseverin at charter.net>
Subject: Re: [Spridgets] The Red Car and camshaft
To: "'Ron Soave'" <soavero at yahoo.com>, "'Spridgets'"
<spridgets at autox.team.net>
Date: Sunday, July 26, 2009, 9:51 AM


I recently found a book on the giveaway pile at the local library by author
Henry Gregor Felsen, and it brought back memories of all his car related
novels I read as a kid.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: spridgets-bounces at autox.team.net [mailto:spridgets-
> bounces at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Ron Soave
> Sent: Sunday, July 26, 2009 9:12 AM
> To: Spridgets
> Subject: [Spridgets] The Red Car and camshaft
>
> Am on vacation, and picked up a copy of the classic book "The Red Car",
> read in a day on the beach. Everyone on this list should read this
> classic of a 16 year old kid in 1954 fixing a wrecked 1948 MG TC to go
> racing. I was born way too late to have even known this book existed
> until recently, but it's dead-center on about how most of us felt the
> first time we saw these cars.
>
> Last, but not least controversially, I recently posted a camshaft 4
> sale. It was bought buy a lister who mic'd it and found it within the
> tolerances of a new one. It saw duty in a mild race motor from 2003 to
> 2005 with Redline oil. That's Redline Oil - the synthetic stuff used by
> most of the vintage racers.
>
> Ron
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