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Your Favorite (or Not So Favorite) Automotive Quotes

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Your Favorite (or Not So Favorite) Automotive Quotes by odie6l
Dec 24, 2006 (2:54 pm)
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In this thread we can discuss our Favorite and Least Favorite (or Hated) automotive quotes from Movies, Commercials, Radio, etc. etc. Also if at all possible try and list who said it, or where it's from.
 
For Example:
Favorite - "Roads? Where we're going, we don't use roads." - Dr. Emmitt Brown (Back To The Future)
 
Least Favorite - "It's a december to remember." - The most horrible quote from our lovely MB dealers around Christmas.
 
Have fun and enjoy. I will try and keep a tally and at the end of each month tell you which quote is the Most Favortie and the Most Hated (december is not going to be counted).
 
Odie
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First of many... by kcram HOST
Dec 24, 2006 (5:23 pm)
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From "The Blues Brothers":
 
Dan Aykroyd/Elwood Blues:
"It's 106 miles to Chicago, we've got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark, and we're wearing sunglasses."
John Belushi/Jake Blues:
"Hit it!"
 
Dan Aykroyd/Elwood Blues:
"Our Lady of Blessed Acceleration, don't fail me now!"
 
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From "Smokey and the Bandit":
 
Burt Reynolds/Bandit:
"What d'ya think they do for excitement in this town?"
Jerry Reed/Snowman:
"Probably sit around and watch the cars rust."
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Way back when Glen Grant by iluvmysephia1
Dec 25, 2006 (10:10 am)
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was alive with his Seattle-area Glen Grant Chevrolet commercials. He would usually start out his TV ads with "Have I Got a Deal For You!" So rehearsed and so not true.
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lee iacocca by Mr_Shiftright HOST
Dec 26, 2006 (1:49 pm)
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When talking to the media about Chrysler's successes and failures with emissions controls:
 
"How much clean air do you need?"
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. by fintail
Dec 26, 2006 (2:43 pm)
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Hmmm I am trying to think of one that isn't profane...
 
Eugene Levy talking to Chevy chase/Clark Griswold about the new Wagon Queen Family Truckster:
 
"If you think you hate it now, wait til you drive it"
 
Clark Griswold on his Truckster that idles/diesels after shutoff:
 
"Oh, all new cars do that"
 
From European Vacation:
 
Ellen Griswold: "Clark, you're on the wrong side of the road!"
 
Clark Griswold: "Yes I know, honey, I'm also on the wrong side of the car. "
 
Hmmm I need to remember some non-Vacation lines.
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From the episode of "Mama's Family"... by andre1969
Dec 27, 2006 (7:27 am)
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where the family tries to teach Mama how to drive...
 
The grandkids: "What does a green light mean?"
Mama: "Means I'm gonna have to yell at Franny or we're gonna sit there all day!"
The grandkids: "What does a yellow light mean?"
Mama: "Means Naomi's gonna speed up and try to kill us both!"
The grandkids: "What does a red light mean?"
Mama: "Means Ellen's gonna fix her hair in the rear view mirror."
 
Then, when Franny and Mama are out in Franny's car...
 
Mama: "I have logged enough miles as a passenger to know how a car starts and stops. Why don't you tell me something I don't already know?"
Franny: "Like what?"
Mama: "What's a Prindle?"
Franny: "A WHAAAT?"
Mama: "A PRINDLE! Says right there...P-R-N-D-L!"
Franny: "Thelma. Honey. That's your gear designator. That's Park, Reverse, Neutral, Drive, and Low."
Mama: "FINE! I believe I'll start off in Low"
Franny: "NOOOOOO. Don't ever put a car in Low! You could end up stripping the transmission or something!"
Mama: "Then what the hell's it doing on there?!"
Franny: "I do not know. I have never put a car in low, and I don't intend to find out!"
Mama: "Then I'll start off in Drive"
Franny: "No! You can't start a car in Drive. You have to start a car in Park!"
 
Then, a few moments later, after Mama gets Franny's Dart Sport wedged in between an Olds Toronado and a Datsun pickup, "I think I need an "S" for Sideways!"
 
Good thing she was in a Mopar and not a Pontiac. Back in the 60's and 70's, Pontiac shift quadrants were often labeled "D, S, L" for "Drive, Second, Low".
 
And just to be nitpicky, most Mopars, as I recall, had them listed as "D, 2, 1", with no "L" at all.
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Louie DePalma from "Taxi..." by lemko
Dec 27, 2006 (7:43 am)
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"Maybe I'll have you take out a cab that doesn't have all the luxuries...like reverse!"
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Re: Louie DePalma from "Taxi..." [lemko] by lokki
Dec 27, 2006 (8:14 am)
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Replying to: lemko (Dec 27, 2006 7:43 am)

Ettore Bugatti:
 
Upon receiving a complaint that a Bugatti Royale didn't like to start on cold mornings
 
Anyone who can afford a Bugatti can certainly afford a heated garage!
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Andre... by iluvmysephia1
Dec 27, 2006 (10:10 am)
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thanks for the picture of the guages and dials and memories of my parents(and later my wife and I's)1973 Plymouth Gold Duster. We literally ran the wheels off of that car. For $2950 the car was a bargain and treated us all very, very well.
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Love the dash by fezo
Dec 30, 2006 (12:46 pm)
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I remember driving one of those most of one summer. Wasn't mine - belonged to the dad of the woman I was seeing. Probably about a 72 Valiant.....

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