What's the best Auto "Sayings"/Mantra's

Rules of Restoration:

1. Accurately estimate the cost of your restoration----Then multiply it by three.

2. Guesstimate the time it will take to complete your project----then add two years.

3. If it is your first restoration, and you completely strip every part of the car----Chances are it won't go back together under your ownership.

4. N.O.S. (new old stock) parts for a 1957 vehicle, means the part is at least fifty years old.

5. The greater the distance back to the parts store----The greater the chances you got the wrong part.

6. If there are two or more versions of the part you need----You got the wrong one.

7. Anything you need today----Won't be available until next Tuesday.

8. Any used wheels you buy----Won't fit anything you own.

9. Any time you guess about the length of a hose or wire----It'll be too short.

10. It doesn't matter what you paid----Some guy knows where you could have gotten it A LOT cheaper.

11. The UPS charges for your parts alone---- Will exceed what our spouse thought the whole restoration should cost.

12. It doesn't matter how well your restoration comes out----Some "EXPERT" driving a parts car will find something wrong with it, and be glad to point it out.

13. Buying a completed restoration is always less expensive----But not nearly as masochistic.

14. It doesn't matter how custom or modified your car is----Some "Old Timer" will tell you that he had one "Exactly" like it when he was your age.

15. Any part that is labeled "Universal"----Universally won't fit anything.

 

"Buy the best, cry once". That one I owe to my buddy Steve-O.

 

"A ounce of precaution is worth a pound of cure"

 

FixOrRepairDaily
Coupes are for chickens
You snooze- You lose
Primer is finer
Street is neat
Keep on Truckin'
Evil, Wicked Mean & Nasty
Injection is nice but I'd rather be blown.
Six in a row WILL go !
If the Van's a' rockin' Don't bother knockin'
Don't Laugh- Your Daughter may be Inside..
LotsOfTroubleUsuallySerious
Change of underwear required
Smile as you go under..

 

you can't polish a turd.....but lets just drag the buff over it !

 

a man less smarter than myself would get hurt with that

 

Seen on the back of a panel van
EYESPOSEAPHUCISOUTATHEQUESTIAN

 

You can't polish a turd, but you can re-sculpt it.

If you can't fix it, fuck it.

Bondo comes in all shapes and sizes.

The law of conservation of energy as applied to sanding bondo: Bondo dust can neither be created nor destroyed, it just changes places within the garage.

I cut this thing 3 times and its still too short!

 

After all those posts and no one laid out the two classics...
Injection is nice but I'd rather be blowin.
& Ass,Grass or gas nobody rides for free.

 

If it flyes floats or fuc== rent it

 

STP: Stops Those Pistons

Dodge: Drips Oil Drops Grease Everywhere
Dodge: Dead Or Dying Garbage Emitter

and the classic "shitter" wall one: "here I sit, broken hearted, tried to shit but only farted"

 

thanks man, i like the futile italian attempt at transportation )

 

LMAO i love the stp oil one hahaha thanks man

 

Hey Raceron you left out the second part;
"Wasted my time but what ta hell,at least I can sit here & enjoy the smell".

 

JEEP...Just empty every pocket

 

Nincumpoop? That's not exactly the way I've always heard it!

 

When your aggravated working on your POS:

You can't turn chicken shit into chicken salad.

 

"Power of stupity holds it together" =most rat rods

 

"She's got a super buzzin' half-a-dozen!"

Response from a local farmer when asked what engine was in his Ford pick-up..

 

Paint shop lingo
drip
zoomer
curtain
runner
pookie
splash
&#@*()(_ AW SHIT

 

eeeeew - that's gross!!! If I have to stay there THAT long, I'm usually holding my - uh - NOSE, yeah - nose, that's it! At least with one hand (latest Hod Rod is in the other hand, of course).... LOL

 

Once you go black, you'll never go back.

 

Guess that's what all the wat wodders say about flat black!!!!

 

"So how was the race?"

"It was pretty good until the crash"

"Oh yeah, what happened?"

"Well, after the third flip I started to lose control..."

 

If you can't duct it, f**k it! - my buddy's sayin

 

Every tool in the tool box is a hammer, except the screwdriver, thats a chisel

 

Ya just gotta be smarter than what you're workin on

 

"DODGE" Dirties Our Dad's Garage Everyday

"BUICK" Big Ugly Import Car Killer

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, if it wasn't for Fords, my tools would rust.

(overheard at a car show) "How many cubic dollars does it have?"

Oddly enough, the first thing I said to myself when I heard the bottom end of my engine come loose on Friday, was "needs more cow bell".

 

Take off your heels before getting in......I don't want any tears in the headliner.

 

good enough isn't
in order to think outside the box, you first have to know what is inside it