Many of you may know this but Peter Cheney writes for the Globe and Mail on things automotive (but slightly quirky) under the heading, "Peter Cheney's Redline". At one time he was a VW/Porsche mechanic, then went to journalism school. He is a beautiful, imaginative writer. A story a few years ago about taking a long distance road trip with his mother-in-law is a classic. The Austin-Healey story also fairly typically represents the quality of his writing. Perhaps importantly, I think he has spent a great deal of time in the Maritimes. David Russell
The article about his 16 year old son driving the Porsche 911 that Peter was testing through his garage door is priceless. Oh, the vagaries of manual transmissions/clutches. I can identify with that having, as a 12 year old, driven my uncle's Ford farm tractor partially through the end of his machine shed - I didn't quite have the clutch business mastered. Fortunately, my uncle was gracious about it - a 1952 Ford tractor was not nearly as valuable as a 2010 Porsche - and a lot tougher to boot. David Russell
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I got all choked up at the last line. Hopefully one of the kids will take stewardship of it. It's now a family heirloom.
Bob E.
Wonderful
Dwight
Many of you may know this but Peter Cheney writes for the Globe and Mail on things automotive (but slightly quirky) under the heading, "Peter Cheney's Redline". At one time he was a VW/Porsche mechanic, then went to journalism school. He is a beautiful, imaginative writer. A story a few years ago about taking a long distance road trip with his mother-in-law is a classic. The Austin-Healey story also fairly typically represents the quality of his writing. Perhaps importantly, I think he has spent a great deal of time in the Maritimes. David Russell
I download the Ontario version of the Globe every thursday to read his column
Joe
Here's a link to some of his past columns in The Globe & Mail.
Phil
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/authors/peter-cheney
The article about his 16 year old son driving the Porsche 911 that Peter was testing through his garage door is priceless. Oh, the vagaries of manual transmissions/clutches. I can identify with that having, as a 12 year old, driven my uncle's Ford farm tractor partially through the end of his machine shed - I didn't quite have the clutch business mastered. Fortunately, my uncle was gracious about it - a 1952 Ford tractor was not nearly as valuable as a 2010 Porsche - and a lot tougher to boot. David Russell
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