Do what you do so well that everything before it is obsolete, and everything after bares your mark...... Walt Disney
"If you're going to drive your hot rod on the highway, you'd better be good at fixing it along the roadside." R-
"you can have any color, you want, as long it is black" "you can't build a reputation, on what you are going to do" Henry Ford
"A Cadillac ain't nuthin' but a Chevrolet with lockwashers!" The late Dean Trowbridge (local Packard/Hudson wizard)
" Wheels , Tires , Headlights and Gauges are what make a Hot Rod " .....The late Dee Wescott.............
"Cut your own firewood, and it will warm you twice". Henry Ford "A 1932 Ford is just a Model A without a visor". Stan Back
Anything John Force comes up with at the end of the track after he damn near buys the farm... The Addict TF car hooked on a launch at Bakersfield and put the nose sky high, damned near going over backwards. Bent up the front end on landing. I saw the crew chief, driver and the team later and asked if the car was ok. Cant remember his name. Anyway without missing a beat he says "Fixing the front end was easy. The hard part was getting the pucker out of the seat!" Everybody cracked up but the driver who was beet red. I asked Wild Willy why he drove with his left hand on the door. He says "I Only need 1 hand to drive the car. Don't want everybody wondering what I'm doing with the other one!" Steve Evans once said to me that Wild Willy was the only man who could go a half mile in a 1/4 mile drag race and still win! The guy who said the most without saying anything at all was Buster Couch. You messed with him playing staging games or try to stall and cook the other guy's engine and it would cost you an engine or the tires next time up. That starting line was HIS and everybody damned well knew it! Track announcer: "The FAA has completed their inspections and the Alterds will be comming up next!" "Go down to the corner and turn left" Fireball Roberts
If youre not a race driver, stay the hell home. Dont come here and grumble about going too fast. Get the hell out of the race car if youve got feathers on your legs or butt. Put a kerosene rag around your ankles so the ants wont climb up there and eat that candy ass. ~ Dale Earnhardt One of my favorites from the Intimidator.
Our stackcar team used to always say these to our drivers... "If you can't get around him, go threw him" "If you can't get by him talk him into the bushes." -Shiny
"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new." Albert Einstein Not a car guy by any stretch, but he did like to tinker with mechanical things.
I heard Benny Parsons say this while announcing a NASCAR race a long time ago... Someone in the booth asked him what the secret was to going fast, he replied... "A guy with a size 13 shoe and a size 2 Helmet."
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