Famous "car guy" quotes.

The last item on the ejection checklist!

 

"That's like wrapping a turd in gold foil."

"Indecision is the key to flexibility."

 

"i'm just a glorified welder"-jesse james

 

No.but your sister got "CUT" in it

 

Heh, you beat me to it...

 

i'll have her done by spring

 

"You can sell a young man's car to an old man, but you'll never sell an old man's car to a young man." Bunkie Knudsen, Pontiac's General Manager.

 

Repeat with an Italian accent "What's behind me is not important".

Franco from The Gumball Rally

 

Damn, Coneman just beat me to it, but here's the entire quote, my friend Jeff Allison repeats to me right after he gets behind the wheel of anything.

 

Here's my favorite quote of all-time to tell anyone who's frustrated by their hot rod or custom. It was originally posted on another thread by H.A.M.B. member JESSEJAMES.

 

A really good friend of mine said this.
"Anybody can buy a turn key new car, it takes a really cool guy to drive a piece of shit" hahahha

 

"Damn Communists"

-Larry Watson

 

You can't break it if its already broke, but you can fix it so it can't be fixed.

 

20000 dollars and 20 miles dont make you a biker,i drove my bike to trailer week,hold my beer while i kiss your girlfriend,you can put a dress on a pig but it is still a pig.i didnt know that was your sister.smackin hoes slammin cadillac doors.make you holla for a dollar do something strange for change

 

'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'


Haha, oddly enough i was told the same thing when i bracket raced my 92' Brougham.

 

"horsepower costs money; how much can you afford?" - smokey yunick

 

Driving's a serious business - John Milner.

C'mere! Are you afraid you're going to learn something?! - Mr. Campbell, my high school Auto shop teacher. A local legend. Looked like the old guy in Treasure of the Sierra Madre.

Buying a hot rod doesn't make you a hotrodder, any more than buying a house makes you an architect. TR

 

So True, Made me laugh!

By the way, the quote in my signature is from Dale Armstrong.
He said this several times to Roger O'Dell while we were working on the Northstar motor for Roger's 36 Roadster.
Listening to those two is a blast!

 

"you can do it. . . we can help" home depot/ and many of our friends when we get a new project.

 

"Reckon it'll work?"

 

a friend describing an engine with major problems "that thing sounds like a hog eatin hickory nuts"

 

Just before the fatal accident "Here, hold my beer. Hey, all you all watch this"

 

heard from the auction block.. looks like a little freestyle action goin on here..

 

"When the green flag drops, the bullshit stops!"

 

I used to drive a Ford then I got a job. Me

 

Ass, Grass or Gas baby, No free rides,

If it has tits or wheels it will let you down one day.

If it Flys, F****, or floats it is cheaper to rent it.

 

I don't know if my brother came up with it or was just repeating it, but regarding the subject of trailering your car to a rod run/car show, he said "if it can't get there on it's own, leave the sonofabitch at home!".. Mike Fletcher

 

" The bitterness of poor workmanship remains long after the sweetness of a low price"----Emil "BUTCH" Brinza auto painter extrordinare

 

...she'll go a hundred and sixty miles an hour, but I never found a road long enough.

 

...you can keep running your mouth, or you can git in and run your car.