your engine blowing up is god's way of telling you that you need a bigger engine- my dad 489 inches and counting
"You can't fix stupid" - Larry Morgan "The winner ain't the one with the fastest car, it's the one who refuses to lose." Dale Earnhardt "I'd rather be lucky than good." Don Prudhomme. "You're only as good as your next p***."-Bob Glidden "Theres a light at the end of the tunnel" John Wiebe "Turbochargers are for people who can't build engines." Keith Duckworth, Cosworth Engines "Why worry about death, it'll come sooner or later." Jim Dunn 1972 "Auto racing began 5 minutes after the second car was built" Henry Ford
Nitrous, is like a hot chick with an STD. You know you WANT to hit it, but you are afraid of the consequences! - Unknown
cole ****ce lurks the HAMB. with him and 85% jimmy, we need more drag racing talk. garlits is a loon.
Zoltar, I told you we should have disconbobulated Garlits when we had the chance but, "NOOO!" You waited too long and now he's vanished under his foil hat. DANG THOSE FOIL HATS! "I'm to busy making slaves", you said. "I've got to meet my quota", you said. I NEVER HEARD OF ANY QUOTAS! Why do you get a quota??? Let's just hope no one believes him. He's a hot rodder, so that'll help a lot. As always, may Borge/General Electric be with you, Marvin
My favorite is from my uncle, after tripping the beams at 6 seconds/218 miles per hour... "It's been my experience that if you're upside down and going backwards at 80 miles per hour or 180 miles per hour, it's all about the same." That 218mph trip was employing the roll bar--upside down and backwards. -Brad
An old drag racer named Bennie, (R.I.P.) who worked with Norm Rees and the "Stereo Pack" dragsters told me and my dad about the year that Shirley Muldowney was at the nationals, she was having a bad weekend. She had went through 3 or 4 engines and had begged and borrowed every spare part from every fellow racer that would talk to her... Before long the "Saying going around the pits" that weekend was: "SHIRLEY'S BLOWN FOUR ENGINES AND THREE CREW CHEIFS, AND STILL CAN'T MAKE IT TO THE FINAL ROUND!" J Shaw
T.C.Lemons "I didnt want my mother to know I was drag racing for 20 years, so I told her I was in prison." Got the tee shirt from Dons museum.
haha i told my dad you put that on here and he started spoutin off about how great that weekend was... Tyler Hilton
"Retiring is easy. Ive done it lots of times." Big Daddy "Aren't challenges what were after?" Keith Black "GET ME OUTTA HERE GET ME OUTTA HERE PAL!" Rick Stewart upside down in the weeds after his top end crash at lions in 7 second love affair
well my dad always said "BALLS TO THE WALL OR NOTHING AT ALL!" he was a old school street racer in oregon.
a couple famous ed donovan one liners, "no ***s in the pits" and "never trust a man with a mustache" a good one one of our local guys uses is, "nitrous is like an old man on ******, once the bottle is empty there both worthless!"
NHRA finally got tired of listening to the Chrysler (KB's etc.) boys complain about that small block kickin' their *** and winning National events, so good ol' NHRA started stacking weight on the small block cars. Everything was fine with the small blocks in NHRA's eyes until George finally figured out the combination. One thing about George if you ran a small block TAD he would share allot of info. with you. I spent many a night on the phone from TX. to San Leandro,CA. talking with with him. They would come by my shop and hang out when they came to TX. The whole family was great folks.
In the late 1970's legendary "Blue Max" car owner and driver Raymond Beadle was asked why his team wasn't having any luck winning races... Beadle, who was always quick to respond replied "The luck will come if the money holds out!"
I remember this from an ad many years ago, featuring Joe Amato: Narrator: "Turn and face your accusers, Joe" Joe Amato: "I don't have to turn. I'm a drag racer." John Force, quotable as always after a p***: "Sounded like 2 freight trains. It was *****in".
Bob Glidden on (I think) Warren Johnson refusing to stage, "I woulda sat there 'til the sun fell outta the sky, he was just screwin' himself"
Local hemi racer was having trouble getting the car to run right. said to his partner, This car wont fall out of a tree.
" . . . I opened my eyes to see what was going on, I saw that I was upside down . . . so I shut my eyes again." Tommy Ivo describing his famous crash at Pomona in 1974.
"Drive it to the first guard rail and stop- if you smell lemons shut it off" Al marcellus to Wild Willie.
An unidentified Fuel funnycar racer once said to Warren Johnson..."Hell I've bailed out of burning F/C's faster than your P.O.S. will go" LOL. I know who said it but they are both still with us. Lippy
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