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Famous "car guy" quotes.

Discussion in 'The Hokey Ass Message Board' started by TheRookie, Sep 15, 2009.

  1. billytschopshop
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    from denver

  2. CobraBall
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    “His wife wears the fire suit in the family...." :D
    Joey Lagano speaking of Kevin Harvick
     
  3. 29nash
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    "No Whining"

    "If it ain't broke don't fix it"
     
  4. ScottV
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    I am surprised no one posted this;

    You snooze, you lose !

    Don't know who said it ...
     
  5. eaglebeak
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    95% of all Chevs are still on the road. The other 5% made it home.
     
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  6. helimx
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    "I'm pretty much the best that's ever been.... I wake up in the morning and piss excelence... Noone can really touch my stuff... I'm just a big, hairy, american winning machine". RICKY BOBBY!!!!!!!
     
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  7. BulldawgMusclecars
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    Probably why he's past, and they no longer make money.
     
  8. Steve 38
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    Australian road/race driver Kevin Bartlett, who was a top flight racer in Formula 5000 and touring cars in the 1960s-1980s, at the Bathurst 1000 kilometer touring car race in 1981, when his Camaro was punched off the track by another car as he was lapping it, and seemingly with a shot at winning the race:

    "Just a complete and utter amateur nincompoop got in the way and turned right, just went straight across my path and put me straight into the fence and I took him, mate, that guy has to be black flagged, I'm going to punch him in the mouth when the race is over".
     
  9. gladeparkflyer
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    that thing left so slow i thought about drivin a stake next to ya so i could see if you were movin at all..... my buddy kris watchin me launch in a stone stock severely vaporlocking dodge dart. :)
     
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  10. neonloverrob
    Joined: Jan 25, 2009
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    from newton, ks

    BOOGITY
    BOOGITY
    BOOGITY
    Let's go race'n boys!
    :D:D:D:D
     
  11. Ya , that's my bike........if you take the seat off and sit on the post, it feels pretty good.
    JimV(not the Jimv on the HAMB)
     
  12. rbarber0697
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    From the late, great Dan Griffin commenting on a fellow dirt track Street Stocker:

    " That thing couldn't pull a greasy string out of a cat's ass!"

    " That damn car was gone before quick could get ready!"
     
  13. mart3406
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    From a 'roundy-round' racer I used to
    know years ago....

    "Oversteer is when you hit the wall with the
    back end, understeer is when you hit it with
    the front of the car ....and neutral is when
    you get the whole right side of the car up
    against the wall and you smash everything
    up nice and even!
    "
    :eek:

    And explaining what happened the time
    the upper link in the 3-link rear suspension
    broke -

    "Suddenly, coming off the back straight
    and going into turn three, I felt absolutely
    everything start to go orgasmicly wrong!
    "
    :eek::eek:

    Mart3406
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  14. mart3406
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    The guy at the track handing out time
    slips back in 1979 when I made an 19
    second at 70.5 mph pass in my stock
    110hp/powerglide 68' Corvair -
    "Why didn't you just keep on gong
    ???"
    :eek:

    And me at the same track circa 1975,
    explaining to someone in the pits how
    I shifted my solid-lifter cammed 283
    4-speed '64 Chevelle using a $10,
    junkyard-scrounged, 6-grand Buick
    factory tach that I had 'black electrical
    taped
    ' to the steering column - "It's no
    problem....the tach works fine...I just
    run the needle right off the end of the
    scale, count to three and then shift!
    "
    :eek::eek:

    Mart3406
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  15. wildman918
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    it doesnt have to look good just has to run
     
  16. Chris Cissel
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    from Fresno Ca

    If its got boobs or wheels it will give you problems
     
  17. Four Banger
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    Colin Chapman (of Lotus fame) remarking on the front suspension of the Lotus Elan..."If you make it adjustable, people will adjust it. Just look at what the idiots can do to a Weber carbureter in 30 seconds with a screw driver."
     
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  18. OahuEli
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    Smokey Yunick was quite a character and had lots of 'em, one of which was "If the rule book doesn't say its illegal then it must be legal!" I believe he made this comment after being called by a tech official for having an opposite rotation engine in a roundy round car.
     
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  19. 29nash
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    "Your car is just fine. You need to work on your drivin' skills first............"

    (Said to me, year 1957, when I had asked an old driver what I needed to do to my car to win races)
     
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  20. Labold
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    Glad this thread showed back up. I enjoyed going back through all these.
     
  21. Gary Glover
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    Ak Millers remark at a race when someone asked "Where is your tool box? Ak said " I came here to race not to work on the damn thing".
     
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  22. seanrace
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    Used to be a sign on the wall at Kelly's Speed Shop in Terre Haute, IN:

    "Speed costs . . . how fast do you wanna go"
     
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  23. bizcoupeguy
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    "a thumbs up at a stop light is better than any trophy"

    "it's alright honey, you can look again"

    "can't wasn't born, he was hatched"

    "don't thank me, thank God you're livin'"

    "yeah, but I say the F word with class"

    "people in Hell want ice water"

    -JERRY BOGART - my step dad who raised me right.....ish
     
  24. bizcoupeguy
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    in response to interactions with the cops:
    Q. "Were you trying to EVADE me?!"
    A. "No, I was trying to AVOID you"

    On a stretch of high desert highway in eastern Oregon, doing 100+, then getting pulled over.
    COP: "I've been waiting all day for you"
    GUY: "I got here as fast as I could"
    (no citation was issued)
     
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  25. rustdodger
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    From an episode of Happy Days where Fonzie had put Ralph's(?) life in peril. Fonzie said "quit your complaining you're luck to be alive!"
     
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  26. "What ever the car wants, the car gets"....John "Freight Train"Peters "Hell, I've had five of these things crash. If you want to try it again I'll have you a car on the ground in a week"....John "Freight Train" Peters
     
  27. sobpunx
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    i build the car first, then make the drawing. are you paying attention detroit?
    ed roth

    ive always loved that
     
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  28. Zerk
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    It's a very simple rule and the only rule we have. It is just this: "The job is the boss." What does the engineer think of this new piston? That doesn't matter. What does the engine think about it? That does matter. The engineer's opinion is worth very little. The engine's opinion is worth a great deal.
    If the engine says, "I like this piston," and it happens to be contrary to the engineer's pet idea, that's too bad. It simply proves that the engineer was wrong. After all, as we said, the only reason for all this expensive research is that it corrects our ignorance factor so that we can see the problem in its true light.
    Charles Franklin Kettering
     
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  29. blue 49
    Joined: Dec 24, 2006
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    from Iowa

    "If you find a better car, Buy it."- Lee Iococa up until Chrysler bought AMC.
     
  30. S.F.
    Joined: Oct 19, 2006
    Posts: 2,895

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    "you have to earn hot rods" Bob Bleed
     

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