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Through years of discouragement and effort they have worked out the problem, until to-day they have the perfected car, or one as near perfect as can possibly be made. The American automobile, as a rule, has become standardized, and it probably can never be bettered, except in minor details of finish and refinement of small parts. John North Willys, The Automobile as a Civilizer, 1909
"[There are] only two classes of pedestrians in these days of reckless motor traffic - the quick and the dead." Lord Dewar (from Looking Back on Life, 1933)
"Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf." Lewis Mumford (from The Culture of Cities, 1938)
"Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car." E.B. White (from One Man's Meat, 1944)
"The car has become a secular sanctuary for the individual, his shrine to the self, his mobile Walden Pond." Edward McDonagh (from an article in Time, May 1963)
"The car has become an article of dress without which we feel uncertain, unclad, and incomplete in the urban compound." Marshall McLuhan (from Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, 1964)
"Climbing into a hot car is like buckling on a pistol. It is the great equalizer." Henry Gregor Felsen (from To My Son - The Teenage Driver, 1964)
"Nothing ages your car as much as the sight of your neighbor's new one." Evan Esar (from 20,000 Quips and Quotes, 1968)
"Many of the temporary standards are unreasonable, arbitrary and technically unfeasible...if we can't meet them when they are published, we'll have to close down. If we have to close down some production lines because they don't meet the standards, we're in for real trouble in this country." Henry Ford II (on new safety regulations that were to take effect on January 1, 1968 as set in the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act)
"Americans like to blast along over interstate highways at eighty miles an hour in big cars with every kind of power attachment, windows up, air conditioning on, radio going, one finger on the wheel. That's what they want, and that's what they buy, and that's what we manufacture. We build the best cars we can to meet the taste of the American people." Henry Ford II
"As you move away from mass transit you become more dependent on the automobile, so you have to spread the housing out more to accomodate the cars." Sandy Hornick (from an article in the New York Times, May 21, 1989)
"Remote villages and communities have lost their identity, and their peace and charm have been sacrificed to that worst of abominations, the automobile." James Norman Hall
"It's all fun and games until someone has to be mopped up off of the concrete with a sponge." Bill Crittenden, in December 2007, regarding Cannonball-style cross country races.
"That is a fantastic American view, the rolling hills, then the craggy mountains, and the slowly and incompetently driven RV in the foreground." James May, on James May's Road Trip, episode 9
"Women only have trouble parking because we are constantly lied to about what 8 inches is." - unknown
“I do not understand people who will lustily throw $40,000 at the shiny red automobile of their choice, but well up with tears and become outraged when they are asked to pay $5 for a damaged videotape. Either they are fucked up and their priorities are fucked up or I am fucked up and my priorities are fucked up. Because I am me, I think it is them.” Don Borchert, Free for All: Oddballs, Geeks, and Gangstas in the Public Library, 2007
2008 Ford Mustang Shelby GT
Photo ©2013 Bill Crittenden
2013 Woodstock High School Car Show
"Auto racing began 5 minutes after the second car was built" - Henry Ford
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2008 Ford Mustang Shelby GT
Photo ©2013 Bill Crittenden
2013 Woodstock High School Car Show
"Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports...all others are games." - Ernest Hemingway
View photo of 2008 Ford Mustang Shelby GT - 3.9MB
2008 Ford Mustang Shelby GT
Photo ©2013 Bill Crittenden
2013 Woodstock High School Car Show
"Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports...all others are games." - Ernest Hemingway
View photo of 2008 Ford Mustang Shelby GT - 3.5MB
2008 Ford Mustang Shelby GT
Photo ©2013 Bill Crittenden
2013 Woodstock High School Car Show
"If everything is under control, you're not going fast enough." - Mario Andretti
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There is no such thing as a bad day at the race track.
Note from Bill: Originally the idea behind this comes from the movie The Rookie, the short story is that there's a scene where the main character is struggling in the minor leagues and is ready to give up. He calls home, and remembers the life back there. He wakes up the next morning and tells his roommate in a really excited voice, "you know what we get to do today? We get to play baseball!!!" I think of that every time I see some mopey angry racer bitching about how hard it is after I've picked through the morning news of war casualties, starvation, and disaster looking for automotive news. I just want to say, "dude, you know what you got to do today? You got to drive a race car! And get paid for it!"
The motivation to get it out of the back of my head and share it comes from Bradley Carpenter of Last Lap Marketing and his "Motivational Motorsports Mondays."
January 2013
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If a fetus is a person, can a pregnant woman drive in the carpool lane?
February 2013
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