Land Racing Quote Thread

[racergeo]

  Sign in my machine shop.......... WE PUT YOUR WORK BEFORE EVERONE   who comes in after you.

[racergeo]

  That is .. WE PUT YOUR WORK BEFORE EVERYONE

[relaxedphit]

One from my dad-"If you're gonna be dumb, you better be tough."

[Cajun Kid]

Crew Chief talking with driver in an effort to explain an engine failure to the car owner/sponsor.

Crew Chief: now driver what exactly happened?
Driver: Well I dumped the clutch and the bit*h hooked real hard off the line, when I grabbed 2nd. gear she lit the tires up and over revved the motor, then next thing I know BOOM !! the engine blew up and scattered parts everywhere.

Owner to Crew Chief:  now Chief, you know I don't understand all those technical and mechanical terms you all use, but what exactly did "your driver" do to "my" car.

Crew Chief to Owner: Well you see the car launched real well off the line and then as the weight transferred forward the driver was shifting into second gear the rear tires experienced a very sudden and unexpected extreme loss of adhesion. This was so violent and sudden it caused the engine to exceed the safe limits of the RPM range and as such the Block was unable to contain all of it's internal parts.

CV

[Freud]

Then the MF puked.

FREUD

[Milwaukee Midget]

Crew Chief talking with driver in an effort to explain an engine failure to the car owner/sponsor.

Crew Chief: now driver what exactly happened?
Driver: Well I dumped the clutch and the bit*h hooked real hard off the line, when I grabbed 2nd. gear she lit the tires up and over revved the motor, then next thing I know BOOM !! the engine blew up and scattered parts everywhere.

Owner to Crew Chief:  now Chief, you know I don't understand all those technical and mechanical terms you all use, but what exactly did "your driver" do to "my" car.

Crew Chief to Owner: Well you see the car launched real well off the line and then as the weight transferred forward the driver was shifting into second gear the rear tires experienced a very sudden and unexpected extreme loss of adhesion. This was so violent and sudden it caused the engine to exceed the safe limits of the RPM range and as such the Block was unable to contain all of it's internal parts.

CV

Owner to Owner's wife --

"Honey, where's the checkbook?"

[floydjer]

Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit....Wisdom is not putting one in a fruit salad.

[fastman614]

Here is one to NOT live by.... these are actual famous last words by our sometimes crew chief from about 10 years ago... "Naw, Naw..... the car WON'T qualify for the record!..... We are just going out for a tune-up pass-We don't need to get the gas tank sealed!"......

and an hour later the car ran 3 miles per hour over the record with an UNsealed gas tank.....

[McRat]

Oldy but goody:  Arguing with the Tech guy is like wrestling a pig in the mud.  You're not going win, and only one of you is going to enjoy the experience.

Tip for successful engine operation:  Always make sure the tach needle enters the redzone from the left side.

Life begins at 50.  PSIG that is.

There is no such thing as too much traction.  It just means you need more power.

Always put "check fasteners" on the checklist.  Especially for the loose nut behind the wheel.

The most common method of weight reduction involves the lightening of the wallet.

At every point in a project there comes a time to shoot the engineer and just finish the dang thing.

[DallasV]

From Gordon Hoyt the first time I ran one of his motors. "Dallas, a race motor only lives for a limited amount of runs, Try not to F#CK any of them up...ok"

[Richard 2]

I'm worried I don't have anything to worry about.

[Glen]

On Hoyt's dash board (the car that crashed) it said SH*T HAPPENS.

[Pete1]

And then the old standard that is in hundred's of shops all over the country...

Gasoline is for washing parts.
Alcohol is for drinking.
Nitro makes cars go FAST.

[ChrisLenahan]

There is a quote attributed to Hemingway but probably authored by Ken Purdy.

There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.

No, it actually is Hemingway from "The Sun Also Rises"

[38flattie]

There is a quote attributed to Hemingway but probably authored by Ken Purdy.

There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.

No, it actually is Hemingway from "The Sun Also Rises"

Chris, I don't think so. Hemingway gets credit for the quote, but I believe it was actually Purdy, in Blood Sport.



I'd sure like to hear the passage from "The Sun Also Rises"