Road & Track "P.S." Boxer Photo

I have been able to quote this caption since it first came out when I was in High School.

Count me in for a print if you do some!

 

What an amazing thread this is. I saw this picture as a teen in R and T and I never forgot it, or Peter Egan's caption. The combination of the two made something rather interesting something remarkable.

 

How cool?! Glad I checked in on this old thread!

I might have to get in on this print. This pic/capiton made a lasting impression for me as well, although I saw it the first time it's second time around in the Best Of.

Welcome to FC, Tony!

 

So cool. Count me in for one as well. I had this on the inside door of my high school locker... boy was I weird! (Or I guess a 'normal' future Fchat guy!)

If there was some way to get R&T to authorize the use fo the caption...

 

Thanks, Tony! Please consider doing as well a print of just that one famous picture. There are just so many thought that comes to you with this picture that seeing the other to me is like asking a magician how he does his tricks, it takes the magic away!

 

Super cool, Like the others, I was hooked on this photo as a kid, with a subscription to the magazine.

Would love to buy a photo / print, signed if possible.

 

In.

 

Thread of the Month nominee here...

Count me in for a print.

 

I'm in.

 

I'm in if you'll sign the print!

 

Welcome, Tony!!

Glad to have you join into the discussion!

 

As a new user some functions are restricted for a few days..

I, for one would LOVE to see the rest of 'the session"....amusing story, about the censorship of the accident.

 

There are many pictures where we see the license plate. Could it be possible to identify the car with it?

 

I don't think Tony had any idea of the reach and impact his photo and West's/Egan's caption made.

After seeing the contact sheet pic, I was thinking about what a great layout a large original would be with either a similar-sized enlarged print of the contact sheet, graininess and all, or the single pic beside the regular-sized contact sheet. Either way, we get the context of both the R&T version and the scene itself, possibly with a bit of the story.
Just thinking out loud.

 

As a former BB owner I would like to purchase a copy also!

 

I knew it! I saw that picture here about 10 years ago and immediately I thought it was the little road between Welland and St. Catharines, right past Brock. Of course, it could have been anywhere out East.

Glenridge Ave, St. Catharines, ON, Canada - Google Maps

 

Would like to buy a print as well. Thank you!

 

I probably still have the original magazine that this was published in. I remember it SO well.

I'm in for a print too Tony, your call on size/quality.

I think you'd be amazed how quickly you'd go through a run of 100. 18x24 is plenty big.

 

I would be delighted to order five of whatever you make, but also would prefer the one selected by R & T.

Thank you !
Jim Fuchs

 

Before I contacted this forum, I actually thought it might be best not to, and keep the mystery alive.
But it's been 30 years now, so I figured why not.
I was only made aware a couple of years ago that people still remembered the photo.
I belong to a classic BMW forum and a member posted the PS shot up in reference to another off-roading experience a member had. When I chimed in that I had taken the photo, I was totally surprised at how many members remembered it. At the time it was first published in R&T, it meant the world to me, as it was the first photo of mine to go international.
With regard to the VIN, or what happened to the car subsequently, I have no idea.
Yesterday, I thought maybe I should contact Henry, the guy in the photo, and ask him about it, I was sad to see that he passed away in 2011. Maybe the photo added to his reputation as a "hellion", as one account puts it. Henry Burgoyne was last of Ontario's family-owned daily newspaper publishers | J-source.ca
Anyway now that the cat's out of the bag, I have attached 3 contact sheets from that day.
Perhaps will give you guys a better chance to see the damage.

EDIT I put these up in reverse order by mistake
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Can I suggest you enlarge one of the pics where you see the license plate. From there someone in Ontario may do a search for the VIN.

 

Plate is PZJ 750

 

It's a certainty that SOMEONE now owns that car...they may..or may not, be happy to learn the history...

 

That's a pretty good Obit, if you ask me...R.I.P.

 

Now can some good Ontario detective do the search for the VIN?