the one I will remember is from Lil John Buttera at DelMar the year before he passed away,we were talking in the hotel parking lot he was with Steve Moal and I made a comment about I wish I had 10% of his building skills and he smiled and said "ANYBODY COULD BUILD A CAR LIKE ME IF THEY HAD MY PHONEBOOK" Moal laughed and said thats the truth...........I'll never forget that,wonder where that book went.
Are you sure you know what your doing?-Jesse James( Monster Garage) He just ran out of talent going into turn 1- Pick a Nascar driver and he's probably said that one. Here Kitty Kitty- Tony Stewart
bill was the man got to meet him and shoot the bull with did you know he wrote under many different names my real hot rod hero that drove his hotrod!!!!!
"You can have any color as long as it's white"---Carroll Shelby commenting on the '65 GT 350 Mustang.
My uncle who taught me more about cars than anyone was a true car guy. A couple of his sayings: Anything will fly if you throw it hard enough! A porsche ain't nothin but a gloryified volkswagon!
"As much as you fuck up, you were bound to get it right sooner or later." Said to me by one of my best friends. A hard core hot rodder, as he was handing the keys back to me from a test run he'd been on, in a car I'd just finished.
If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough. - Mario Andretti There are two things no man will admit he cannot do well: drive and make love. - Stirling Moss
"balls to the wall or nothing at all!" my father. quot i once saw on a shirt aobut 15 years ago about G.T.Os "old goats never die, they just chew up the competition"
Ray Evernham said that one when he was Jeff Gordons' crew chief. Earnhardt said "Drop the rag, let's GO"!
Herman Munster: Well, aren't you gonna wish me luck, Grandpa? Grandpa: [Grandpa waves his hand a little] Drop dead!
'calling upon my years of experience, i froze at the controls.' - stirling moss 'common sense tells you don't use the blow dryer in the shower, don't stick your tongue to the flagpole in january, duh, and you certainly don't try to go racing in a two ton full-size luxo-barge' - tony defeo
My Dad, God rest his soul: "Why do you put those big wide tires on there, hell your just driving around hunting for nails"!
"That sunuvabitch better be an anvil, or I'm gonna break it.." - Mario Andretti, testing engines for ..Ford/Cosworth, maybe? "He couldn't drive a Camel to water" - Greg Biffle, referring to some unknown driver over the team radio.
Surprised we got this far without these two.... It's 106 miles to Chicago, we got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark, and we're wearing sunglasses. It's got a cop motor, a 440 cubic inch plant, it's got cop tires, cop suspensions, cop shocks. It's a model made before catalytic converters so it'll run good on regular gas. What do you say, is it the new Bluesmobile or what?
I feel ill, my favorite movie and I misses the quotes!! UGH!! 'Our lady of blessed acceleration, don't fail us now'
Dale Earnhardt - "It doesn't matter how many possessions you own or how much money you have in the bank, - its how happy you are with what you got." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I've tried to remember to live like that since I read that interview asking him how fame & fortune changed him or not.
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