Quotations of interest to our....."types".

Just got home from a week of vacation time-and while on my trip -I noticed several quotations, that I think would be worth remembering....
Please feel free to add yours ,or one you saw here also.

This particular one, that really stuck in my mind ,was by- artist/builder/architech,[Alex Jordan].

He built only one car, a custom 2 seat roadster from Cadillac/Packard parts- and was more famous for a really creative home he built.....


"Restoration is the last refuge ,for those who cannot create"

 

Along those same lines;
"Anyone can restore a car, it takes a real man to cut one up!" -Unknown

"Anyone going slower than you is a *****. Anyone going faster than you is a maniac." -Carlin

 

Aerodynamics are for people who cannot build engines. Enzo Ferrari

 

Its Not The Face You **** But The **** You Face...... My Father

 

Not Every Word In A Sentence Needs To Be Capitalized - every English teacher I ever had.

 

referring to Fords' Model T

"Fame goes to he who can convince the world that an ideas' time has come".

unknown author.

 

"If I gotta explain it, you wouldn't understand."
- Ed Roth

 

...that's our Mikey, cold but effective...

 

While working on my car with the Club I told one of them that was hammering on a rusty bolt:
"Hit it like you owned it!"

Another I've heard: "Any A$$hole can own a mucsle Car. All it takes is Dollars."

 

Regarding the action in the sweater of the young lady who just walked by us...

"Kinda like 2 pigs fightin' in a gunney sack"

My dad, who caught me staring when I wuz about 12

 

When in doubt, use a bigger hammer.

Skrewdrivers: a round handled tool used for prying that oddly has a finely
machined tip.

 

Torque wrench?? Just snug it down and go a full turn extra. (SNAP!!) Oh *#@!*%...

Sure it'll it fit.

Who needs front brakes on a T-bucket?

Hell, that'll buff out!!

Damned right it's fast.

Too rich for my blood.

Here's rust in your eye. (hoisting PBR or brew of choice)

I can fix ANYTHING!!

It'll be running by next weekend.

My grandpa had one just like it except it was blue, and a 4 door....

"SS" stands for Stick Shift - (I told my dad that one when I was 16 just to feed him some bogus info )

When are you going to paint it?

OK Here one for real that I've always liked.

"Wisdom cares not for what cannot be had but for what can be acheived."

I'm trying to live that one everyday by not worrying about what I don't have, beingthankful for what I do have, and working toward what I want. Of course, some days are easier that others.

 

"Only on the railroad"

 

"A bad mechanic blames his tools."

Dad

 

The only stupid question is the one left unasked.

Foolhardiness is always cured by either more birthdays or a lack of the same.

 

Now it stands for Stoggy Sedan.

 

Q. How ya doin?
A. I'm hangin in there.......like a hair in a grilled cheese sandwich!
Learned that one from my dad.

 

Well then, that would fit my Dad just fine...

 

If it don't fit, force it...and the one below...

R-

 

Dad quotes

"That's finer than frog hair!"

".... dryer than a popcorn fart."

"****-a-roni!" - this ones a cl***ic in my family. We think it might be from Chef Boyardi.

 

See my signature.

 

"A fool would have swallowed it!"
- Baron LaRouchfeld

 

If you have to ask, you can't afford it.

 

Regarding a custom bilet aluminum mirror on a rod, a silly show spectator asked the owner "how did you make that"? "I took a chunk of aluminum and cut off everything that don't look like a mirror", said the owner! Pretty cool.

 

Get a rachet and work like a man (my Dad)
It's okay to go to town and see the sights so long as you don't become one (unk)

 

From down south - "It's faster than the word of God" or "We got mosquitos so big they can stand flat footed and **** a hen turkey" I think the latter could apply to Minnesota also.

 

Beat to fit, paint to match

 

the more i know, the more i know i dont know

 

Thank you! That one needs to be a sticky at the top of the page. There are a few people on here that capitolize the first letter of every word, and im not trying to be the grammer police, but it makes it hard to read.

 

I thought the Club was an anti-theft device........


Mutt