My two favorite quotes from the late, great Steve Evans as the Track Announcer in "More American Graffiti"
Nitro is the most powerul solvent known to man, it disolves bank accounts and marriages instantly. Jack Wyatt.
Overheard at a show I was at this summer, "Over course my car can beat the pants off that coupe... the trailer it rode in on can only go so fast!"
HGave I posted on this one yet? Speed costs money, how fast do you wanna go? But my favorite is: Fuck you very much B_____s. Both by a fella they called JC "Watch me pull a rabbit outa my hat." Bullwinkle Moose and Danny Killcup [in the staging lanes @ PIR just prior to roasting a '57Vette with his 6 cylinder Healy]
" 95% of drivers say oh shit before they hit the ditch, The other 5% are from South Carolina, And WE say hold my Beer and watch this SHit rite here!!" Dont know who if anybody said it but true!,,,,so true
"There is no substitute for cubic money" Or when your crew chief gives you the international O.K. sign when staging, he's actually telling you "you have zero chance of making it down there!"
"when I saw I was headed into the wall, I turned it around backwards, 'cuz I don't like watching that stuff" Ken Schraeder
after getting my ass kicked in a street race by my good friend bryan, at the next stop light he leaned over in his car asked me "is that a 327 or a 307"? after 4 years still to this day it makes me laugh. this is the same guy that when we pulled up next to mustang with E/T streets mounted on the rear and lumpy idle from a hot cam, he rolls down the window, looks at the guy and goes " push the choke in it might run better"! bryan may not be famous but he comes up with some good ones.
My Dad whenever I tried to diagnose a problem under the hood: "Don't shoot off your mouth unless your brain's loaded!"
I'm reading Speed Bill's book - whatever it's called - and I think you could lift a quote from every page, if not a dozen. I know some folks have been beefing about Speedway, but my friend "Cowboy" Bob Norris in North Fond du Lac, Wis., says you can't build a car with the Speedway Catalog. In any case, all I've read in the book so far is about the early days of struggling to start racing and start a business and there really is a lot of good wisdom and philosophy for someone in either of those boats. Gunner
this probably has been posted "if it aint fast , put loud pipes on it " by my brother about 35 years ago , still gets used today .
A dude was outta gas at a stoplight and wondering his next move. My friend Todd says "Rock it back and forth, it allways works for my bike." We left the light with him rocking in the seat of his car. Hilarious. Another was in a book that had a twisted rod and a smashed piston. The caption was " possible total engine destruction" I've used that alot and not allways about cars.
"Don't tell me what your gonna do, tell me what you've done" Dale Sr. "If I tell you a rabbit will pull a freight train you hook up the chain" Ace Kolar
"Whatever you ardently desire and fervently work towards will inevitably become the past." Father of Billy Meyers (Texas Drag Racer late 70's early 80's)
Overhearing my dad asking John Force a few questions, notably this one. "So, what does tire shake feel like?" John's reply-"It feels like your ass is shaking out of your butthole". Always liked that one.
"Finishing second here means nothing" Mario Andretti interview after finishing second at the indy 500
By my neighbor Morris Jarvis about his 72 442 with a 6:71 on a 455 - Love the torque, but the Olds was just getting too slow for me. Heh, heh See what hes building now in the home garage at - www.hermesspace.com www.starsystemsinc.net
My father.... 'Get out of the car bitch, you couldn't drive your finger up your arse'. The other one he uses is, 'That idiot couldn't drive a greasy stick up a dead dogs bum'. Doc.