Getting a Boost

t was while in Gisborne in December 2015 that my phone went, displaying a great number of digits. A warm English voice introduced himself but there was no need — we’d met, albeit only briefly, a few years earlier when Roger Bailey and I had shaken hands. Roger had been given my number on the basis that I may be able to provide a recent health update on our mutual friend Chris Amon. Despite the brevity of our one and only meeting in January 2011 when Roger had come to New Zealand for the Chris Amon Festival, I already felt as if I knew him. Stories about him always flowed freely from Chris, Howden Ganley, Wally Willmott, Eoin Young, and others. After I told Roger what I knew he said, “Would you mind if I called occasionally to see how my old