"What you tryin to do, blow my mind??" GTO ....Pretty much every line in Two Lane Blacktop is awesome.
"The art of automobile design." -- Harley J. Earl, explaining why GM put time & effort into body design & color at a time when many car companies' designs were plain & functional (engineering before style).
" Anyone can restore a car, it takes a real man to cut one up " Used to have that T-shirt when I was a kid.
Not a car guy that I know of, but a damn good songwriter... "Hang on, St. Christopher" -Tom Waits Getting ready to letter that one on the dash of the truck.
"Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports ... all others are games." - Ernest Hemingway
I think it was Barris?...... I have to out live my friends that way all my stories will be true. Ercie about Eddie Hill.....I dont know if the sport gave him brain damage or if his brain damage got him involved with the sport.
Not a car guy but the funniest straight man that ever lived, Brian Clough, Football manager. "I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one." An unknown one Football, Rugby, Cricket Tennis are one ball sports. You need TWO Balls to go racing... P.
Best one I heard came from a GT-1 racer "Bill Paul" after returning to the airport awaiting a New Medical when his cancer went into remission he was leaning against a friends T-6 airplane and a friends wife made a comment such as... He shouldn't be smoking... to which he promptly exclaimed... "If it leaks that much fuel it deserves to burn"...!!! RIP Bill!!!
Navigator to pilot after two 360 spins and coming to rest in a ditch. You can turn it off now, Ernie.
Richard Petty about his son Kyle when they were both racing.... I taught him everything he knows...not everything I know
"Mechanics is the paradise of the mathematical sciences because by means of it one comes to the fruits of mathematics." Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519)
"You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do". "I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done". "A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one". Henry Ford
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