Hot rod sayings

Seen on a big block CCab delivery-"gone for pizza back in 8sec"

Seen on a t-shirt recently "Hoosier Daddy?" around a slick on a torque thrust.

Hotrods are like hot chicks, they'll take all your money, screw you over and leave you wanting for more.....

 

In my shop, it's:

"Where the f**k did I put the ________"
(fill in the blank -"wrench", "screwdriver", "socket"..........................)

 

I don't Tea-Bag the ladies, I Potato-Sack 'em.

 

Ny favorite and re-occuring signature line:

"So fast the floor mats stick to your shins!"

 

On the wall of Mike Adams' shop
"#1 rule of hot roding...DON'T FUCK WITH YOUR TRANSPORTATION!"

How about the classic from the MAINEiac(R.I.P) ..."FTF" Fuck The Fenders

Brett

 

There’s more to life than gas mileage.
(Replace gas mileage with babies or basketball if you live in Utah..)

 

saw this on the back of a Lotus Elan (so little OT):

All the parts falling off this car are of the finest British craftsmanehip and quality

 

"New steel still ain't real"

 

fuck yeah...i can't stand this state!

how about...
"my starter has more torque than your damn ________!" honda, toyota etc.

 

confucious (SP?) say...............burned rubba have hot rod

 

"Anything worth doing is worth doing to excess" HRM, 1950's

"Hot the rod and spoil the child" Pogo cartoon, early fifties...

"Faster than photons" PHR, early 70's

"...then more is better, and too much should be just right"...hmmm...missing some of that one.

 

Bwahahahahahahahahahaha! Damn that's good!

I'm printing up a bunch of T-shirts this summer for my crew at the Hot Rod Reunion: "Miles" Ocock Racing.
Can I use that as the tag line?

-Brad

 

WHADAYAMEAN?
This IS my GOOD SHIRT!

 

In the window of a woodie: "Save a tree, eat a beaver"

 

That sounds really funny (and a bit ironic?) coming from someone in a State that the highest point of is a satelite dish on top of a 16 story building in Miami...


Actually, every time we have an Earthquake the coast gets HIGHER not lower!

Yea, I know... We're both just joking around...

Van saying: If this Van is rockin', Don't bother knockin'

California Hotrod saying: If this Rod is rockin' watch out for falling buildings!

 

Time to "Hot Rod Up, cowboy."

 

What do you call too fast ?

Just about right !!!!!

 

From Grey Baskerville

"Finish the thing, do it right the first time and drive the son of a bitch!"

 

"It'll beat everything but the pumps"

 

passes everything but the gas station.

 

Cubic Dollars (talking about motors)

From Two Lane Blacktop, "Not Bad For Home Grown"

 

I've got a bowl of goldfish on the seat (AMC fans)

 

On the back of this Stude....

Salt is for racin'...asphalt is for gettin' there!

 

"There's no substitute for cubic inches!"

"Chrome won't get you home"

"Work hard, play fair;
you'll win your share.
(Team motto of the "Surfers" AA/FD)

"He must be cheatin'. He beat me, and I know I am!"
(Tom "the Mongoose" McEwen)

"If you don't redlight now and then - you ain't racin' "
(Don Garlits)

 

Nice car. ya buy it new?

I hope that motherfu*ker got triple A.

Bondo & paint'll make'er what she ain't.

My other ride is your mom.

 

"The generator won't generate"
"The carburator won't carburate"
"And the pistons, Well..."
They won't work either"

On the back of the FED back in the 60's
"Low Mileage...Only driven on weekends."

 

"Tighten it 'till it snaps, then back off a quarter-turn."

 

on the front:
Burnin' rubber...

on the back:
...and oil and bearings and...

 

"if ya can't find 'em, grind 'em...."

 

"I'm proud of my parts"..to be written directly under shop name/logo.

"If it ain't broke, fix it 'till it is."