Side Glances, Volume 2 1992-1997

by Clarke, R.M.

• ISBN13: 9781855205673
• ISBN10: 185520567X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-10-04
• Publisher: Brooklands Books Ltd

Summary

This second volume has dozens more Peter Egan columns from Road & Track magazine, including "Cars of Atonement," "Why I Like Driving," "Lawn Mower U," "Vintage Racing vs. 'Real' Racing," "Invasion of the Minivans," and "Blood on the Creeper and other Chilling Tales."

Table of Contents

Peter Egan	7	(2)
Travel Posters	9	(2)
Lawn Mower U	11	(2)
Missing Thunder	13	(2)
Made in the Shade	15	(2)
School Days	17	(2)
Karting Revisited	19	(2)
Salt Cars	21	(2)
Sins	23	(2)
Charts	25	(2)
Numbers Match	27	(2)
Ten Years, Ten Favorite Cars	29	(2)
Vintage Racing vs. ``Real'' Racing	31	(2)
A Thousand Points of Light & Other Vision Problems	33	(2)
Formula 1; The Human Touch	35	(2)
Car Parts That Never Break	37	(2)
In Defense of Cruising	39	(2)
The Philosophy of Selling Stuff	41	(2)
Through a Gearbox, Darkly	43	(2)
In Search of the Ideal Van	45	(2)
Remembering Innes	47	(2)
Invasion of the Minivans	49	(2)
The Widow's Cadillac	51	(2)
Speed Reading Made Easy	53	(2)
The Olive Not-So-Drab Dodge Charger	55	(2)
I do not Race in no Snowstorm	57	(2)
Instructions Required	59	(2)
Driving a Miata to see a Man about a TR-4	61	(2)
It's Time to Dump the 55, or take our National Speed Limit, Please	63	(2)
Ace Mechanic Car Detective	65	(2)
How to tell when it's the end of the Racing Season	67	(2)
In Search of Traction	69	(2)
Triumph, Car of way too many uses	71	(2)
Motoring Down Under and the British Legacy	73	(2)
Blood on the Creeper and other Chilling Tales	75	(2)
Mass, Time Distance and Chorizo Enchiladas	77	(2)
Sebring and, other Neighborhoods	79	(2)
Skis, Sports Cars and Jazz Albums of the Ultra Cool	81	(2)
It's Hard to Beat a Lotus	83	(2)
Listing Toward Elkhart	85	(2)
On Vampires, Garlic and the Holy Trinity	87	(2)
Driving a Legend	89	(2)
Return of the Mustang	91	(2)
The Hot-Rodding Instinct	93	(2)
Dad's Clunkers	95	(2)
The Right Tool for the Job	97	(2)
Road Fever'	99	(2)
The Peg-and-Hammer Game	101	(2)
Letting Slip the Dogs of Restoration	103	(2)
Instant Karma and the Great Trickster Tradition	105	(2)
Rest Homes for the 21st Century	107	(2)
Car Status and Brand Loyalty	109	(2)
Why do we Sell Our Cars?	111	(2)
Young Driver, Old Car Road dc Track Dec 1996	113	(4)
Prodigal Car	117	(2)
Seldom Seen Cars	119	(2)
Road Salt and the 50-Mission Car	121	(2)
My Trailer is not Hungry, and Other Great Moments in Modern Technology	123	(2)
A Box of Time	125	(2)
The Great Springtime Garage Massacre	127	(2)
Cars of Atonement	129	(2)
Inexplicable Physics Road dc Track Sept 1997	131	(4)
Original Mustangs and B-17s	135	(2)
Quests that Never End	137