"I'm pretty much the best that's ever been.... I wake up in the morning and piss excelence... Noone can really touch my stuff... I'm just a big, hairy, american winning machine". RICKY BOBBY!!!!!!!
Australian road/race driver Kevin Bartlett, who was a top flight racer in Formula 5000 and touring cars in the 1960s-1980s, at the Bathurst 1000 kilometer touring car race in 1981, when his Camaro was punched off the track by another car as he was lapping it, and seemingly with a shot at winning the race: "Just a complete and utter amateur nincompoop got in the way and turned right, just went straight across my path and put me straight into the fence and I took him, mate, that guy has to be black flagged, I'm going to punch him in the mouth when the race is over".
that thing left so slow i thought about drivin a stake next to ya so i could see if you were movin at all..... my buddy kris watchin me launch in a stone stock severely vaporlocking dodge dart.
Ya , that's my bike........if you take the seat off and sit on the post, it feels pretty good. JimV(not the Jimv on the HAMB)
From the late, great Dan Griffin commenting on a fellow dirt track Street Stocker: " That thing couldn't pull a greasy string out of a cat's ass!" " That damn car was gone before quick could get ready!"
From a 'roundy-round' racer I used to know years ago.... "Oversteer is when you hit the wall with the back end, understeer is when you hit it with the front of the car ....and neutral is when you get the whole right side of the car up against the wall and you smash everything up nice and even!" And explaining what happened the time the upper link in the 3-link rear suspension broke - "Suddenly, coming off the back straight and going into turn three, I felt absolutely everything start to go orgasmicly wrong!" Mart3406 ==============================
The guy at the track handing out time slips back in 1979 when I made an 19 second at 70.5 mph pass in my stock 110hp/powerglide 68' Corvair - "Why didn't you just keep on gong???" And me at the same track circa 1975, explaining to someone in the pits how I shifted my solid-lifter cammed 283 4-speed '64 Chevelle using a $10, junkyard-scrounged, 6-grand Buick factory tach that I had 'black electrical taped' to the steering column - "It's no problem....the tach works fine...I just run the needle right off the end of the scale, count to three and then shift!" Mart3406 =========================
Colin Chapman (of Lotus fame) remarking on the front suspension of the Lotus Elan..."If you make it adjustable, people will adjust it. Just look at what the idiots can do to a Weber carbureter in 30 seconds with a screw driver."
Smokey Yunick was quite a character and had lots of 'em, one of which was "If the rule book doesn't say its illegal then it must be legal!" I believe he made this comment after being called by a tech official for having an opposite rotation engine in a roundy round car.
"Your car is just fine. You need to work on your drivin' skills first............" (Said to me, year 1957, when I had asked an old driver what I needed to do to my car to win races)
Ak Millers remark at a race when someone asked "Where is your tool box? Ak said " I came here to race not to work on the damn thing".
Used to be a sign on the wall at Kelly's Speed Shop in Terre Haute, IN: "Speed costs . . . how fast do you wanna go"
"a thumbs up at a stop light is better than any trophy" "it's alright honey, you can look again" "can't wasn't born, he was hatched" "don't thank me, thank God you're livin'" "yeah, but I say the F word with class" "people in Hell want ice water" -JERRY BOGART - my step dad who raised me right.....ish
in response to interactions with the cops: Q. "Were you trying to EVADE me?!" A. "No, I was trying to AVOID you" On a stretch of high desert highway in eastern Oregon, doing 100+, then getting pulled over. COP: "I've been waiting all day for you" GUY: "I got here as fast as I could" (no citation was issued)
From an episode of Happy Days where Fonzie had put Ralph's(?) life in peril. Fonzie said "quit your complaining you're luck to be alive!"
"What ever the car wants, the car gets"....John "Freight Train"Peters "Hell, I've had five of these things crash. If you want to try it again I'll have you a car on the ground in a week"....John "Freight Train" Peters
i build the car first, then make the drawing. are you paying attention detroit? ed roth ive always loved that
It's a very simple rule and the only rule we have. It is just this: "The job is the boss." What does the engineer think of this new piston? That doesn't matter. What does the engine think about it? That does matter. The engineer's opinion is worth very little. The engine's opinion is worth a great deal. If the engine says, "I like this piston," and it happens to be contrary to the engineer's pet idea, that's too bad. It simply proves that the engineer was wrong. After all, as we said, the only reason for all this expensive research is that it corrects our ignorance factor so that we can see the problem in its true light. Charles Franklin Kettering
The Jalopy Journal
