Maybe not a saying but more of a joke phrase. You're trying to get a bolt into a hole in a dificult location and an old-timer says with a grin: "Try putting a little hair around the hole." Saw this on an old-timer's hat back in the '80s: DAMIFINO
Can weld anything but the crack of dawn. A old guy that could run the hell out of a welder once told me.
Used to be a welding shop here in the 50's , that had the saying on a sign in the front. "We can fix anything, but the crack of dawn and a broken heart." Larry T
I brake for..... oh $#!* no brakes! 4 speeds + 3 pedals= Happiness Billet What's Billet? File that under C.S.
I just read 14 pages of sayings and cant believe you guys missed one of the oldest around: by roadster owners. " Coupes are for chickens" My favourite for car salesmen: You can slide farther in ******** than you can in GRAVEL.
If some is good and more is better, then too much is just right. Why do the English drink warm beer? Lucas refrigerators.....
This little saying was taught to me by my dad when I was a kid... Chevrolet means, shiver in the road and lay in the shop.
I have a T with this one -- "Wanna help wax my Woody??" One of my dad's -- "I wish I had that ________ and they had a feather up their ***... We'd both be tickled!!"
Some of these are either so original or regional thta even an old FART like ME hadn't heard them!! GREAT thread (where the heck does it END? Will it EVER end???) Inquiirng minds want to know!
...the angle of the dangle is directly proportional to the heat of the meat and the m*** of the ***....
rust holes? lighter is faster.......... If You Can Beat Me You Can Eat Me was rumored to be one the rear of Shirley Mul'''' car around upstate New York before she turned pro. One day she had to pull it when a local beat her car ...
Said of MOPARS as late as late '30s when they still had fiber-wrapped electricals: "If a dog pisses on the tires overnight, it won't start in the morning!"
ROFLMAO,,,damn, I love that one by Fairlane500... If ya caint weld good, weld a lot,,,,damn I love that one