Quotable quotes about cars

"Of the 6 Cobra Daytona Coupes originally built, only 24 survive...." 

Do I even need to supply the quote?

In reply to Keith Tanner :

Miata is always the answer? 

To finish first, you must first finish.

"The slowest race car is still faster than a set of bleachers"

"Who cares about front wheel drive? Give 'em leather, they can smell it."

 - a US auto exec in the mid 1970s

The slowest car gets the most track time.

-me about autocross

"Cowl shake like a wet dog"

-Car and Driver.  Some Chrysler product.

In reply to rustyvw :

Probably a Reliant convertible.

"Copy Nothing"

Let's not forget: "Grounded to the ground"

Keith Tanner said:

Do I even need to supply the quote?

"Aerodynamics are for people who can't build engines" Enzo Ferrari.  That's obviously not true but as an engine guy I still apprecieate it.

"Under wide-open whack, however, the V-8 makes a noise unique in motordom. Think of Placido Domingo with his toe caught in a mangle. It's half mellifluous shriek, half hellacious howl—a super­charger whine that recollects some netherworld fusion of Lamborghini V-12 and Carrier air conditioner. At the test track, we could identify it a quarter-mile away. It is wonderful."

"Racing makes heroin addiction look like a vague wish for something salty", Peter Egan.

There are a couple of statements I will make when I'm announcing at an autocross. 

You're faster than everyone who stayed home. 
 

The most important people here are the novices. 

"And this thing of being without a car. I've gone several days with a car idle in the garage; what's the big deal? Well, the big deal is that freedom isn't getting in a car and going someplace, it's in the possibility of it."  --Denise McCluggage

"Jaaaaaag"  -- Jeremy Clarkson

 “All of those cars were once just a dream in somebody’s head.” - Peter Gabriel

 "I am an artist, the track is my canvas and the car is my brush." - Graham Hill

"It's always a bad ground" -- me, repeatedly, on a Fiat owner's message board decades ago. The phrase became a mantra (because it was 90% accurate) and is now known in the community as 'ddavidv's rule'.  

Racecar spelled backwards is Racecar.

In reply to Pete. (l33t FS) :

Any Big Healey. 

i asked for 50 cars, not 49 and a half...

Ka-Chow

Rubbin's racin...

"Gandini was 21 when he designed the Miura. When I was 21, I was still drawing cars with guns on them." -Richard Hammond.

I'll take the high road here:

"The girl's got rhythm, she's got the backseat rhythm."

AC/DC  -- Girls Got Rhythm

"Saying the Z06 is an animal on track is like saying Saddam Hussein has minor legal troubles" - Hot Rod Mag on the C6 Z06. I believe Rob Kinnan was the author, but that one always stuck with me.

"Why am I messing with old Mustangs,I could go quicker with a new Corvette"

Me every time I'm cleaning up after another day in the shop

" The trick to making a suspension work is to not let it." 

I think that was Kas Kastner