Book Note: W.E. Butterworth, The Fastest Funny Car

This note does not contain major spoilers for the book.

Published as by Patrick J. Williams. Copyright given as Scholastic Magazines. Tony passed it on to me in a Butterworth stack, and it sounds like one to me, but that's not completely conclusive, eh? I haven't managed to google up any confirmation.

This copy is ex-library, and still has the date due sheet in it. Rather sad: Apr 30 1974, Nov 2 1976, Apr 1 1977, Apr 19 1977, May 3 1977, Oct 15 1984, Oct 3 1989. And then, I guess, out. From Seattle Public Schools. I think they bought it in 1976, when it came out, but there could well have been a completely filled date due slip that's been replaced.

An unreasonably talented kid (classical and jazz pianist, self-taught mechanic) gets to do both things the summer before going to college, and earns enough to pay for college to boot. I'm actually a little bothered by how fast, and how painlessly, he learns to be a good mechanic.

He also makes some good friends.