Talk:Peter Egan (columnist)

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[edit] Sources, please? I'm not sure I can find mine...

I have added substantially to this article but I have not cited my sources. They are all from what I remember of his writings in Road & Track or, substantially less so, in Cycle World.

The line about the Jeep in Vietnam being "the only non-English vehicle I ever owned that exploded" is from a Side Glances article called "Garages of Ill Repute", but I do not remember what issue that was in.

The Model A road trip was in the articles "Model A Odyssey", Parts I & II. Again, I do not know which issues, but I think they might have been in an April and a May issue respectively, as I remember an "April's Fool" article being in the same issue as Part I.

The Isetta road trip was in the article "In Search of the Blues". I know someone went with him. I think it was Chris Beebe.

I am not sure in which issues the other references can be found. I also do not remember his brother's name, although I do remember that he wrote in a column about his brother being ejected from a car accident in which the car eventually fell into a swamp and disappeared, and that he wrote in a later column that the outcome of that accident was the only favorable one he knew of for an unbelted occupant in an accident. He also mentioned that his brother liked new cars that did not have to be worked on, and that his brother did not work on cars.

Any help in finding these sources would be appreciated, especially if you old Road & Tracks are better organized than mine. Respectfully, SamBlob 16:25, 9 June 2007 (UTC)

The TR3 horn incident is also mentioned in the Side Glances article "Tuning Secrets of the Ultra-Slow" and in a more recent article about Lucas electrics. Respectfully, SamBlob 16:53, 9 June 2007 (UT

He has hepatits C, which has slowed him down. I don't know if he has discussed it in his columns, but he mentioned it in an e-mail to my husband, so I don't think it's a secret. We don't know him personally, but my husband sent him an e-mail and Peter Egan responded.

He has mentioned it in his column more than once. He said it slowed down his E-type project a lot. There were days when he couldn't move from the couch. Respectfully, SamBlob (talk) 17:13, 9 December 2007 (UTC)