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3798j

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"Make the suspension adjustable and they will adjust it wrong -- Look what they can do to a Weber carburetor in just a few moments of stupidity with a screw driver." - Colin Chapman
 

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Make something idiot proof and the world will produce a better idiot.
 

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You can't make anything foolproof because fools are too darn ingenious.
 
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Mine from the new VW commercial, kid w/ the moped:

"Is it fast?"

"It's got a lightening bolt on it doesn't it?! :/"

I laugh everytime I see it.
 
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"To achieve anything in this game, you must be prepared to dabble on the boundary of disaster." - Sir Stirling Moss
 

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To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. Thomas Edison
 

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"Against stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain."
[Mit der Dummheit kaempfen Goetter selbst vergebens] - Schiller
 

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"Racing makes heroin addiction look like a vague longing for something salty"
Peter Egan
 
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"Auto racing began 5 minutes after the second car was built." - Henry Ford
 

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<span style="font-style: italic">Anything worth doing, is worth doing to an excess.</span>
~Bolus and Snopes Racing / Car & Driver magazine (1970s).

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I have the Egan quote taped to the inside of my van. When Egan parked next to me at Watkins Glen last Fall, I showed it to him.
 

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OMG!! It's been <span style="font-style: italic">years</span> since I heard Bolus & Snopes mentioned.

Now Oscar K. is a diff'rent story... :wink:

Did I mention I <span style="font-style: italic">love</span> this place?!? :laugh:
 

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aeronca65t said:
<span style="font-style: italic">Anything worth doing, is worth doing to an excess.</span>
~Bolus and Snopes Racing / Car & Driver magazine (1970s).

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I have the Egan quote taped to the inside of my van. When Egan parked next to me at Watkins Glen last Fall, I showed it to him.

Cool! That's actually our family Motto: If it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing. :cheers: :banana:
 

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"in the banister of life, may all the splinters be pointing the right way" -Unknown
 
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"It's better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it."
 

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JPSmit said:
aeronca65t said:
<span style="font-style: italic">Anything worth doing, is worth doing to an excess.</span>
~Bolus and Snopes Racing / Car & Driver magazine (1970s).

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I have the Egan quote taped to the inside of my van. When Egan parked next to me at Watkins Glen last Fall, I showed it to him.

Cool! That's actually our family Motto: If it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing. :cheers: :banana:

My Ol' Fella's was: "Moderation is for monks."
 

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"Of course the TR3 Chassis had the torsional rigidity of a soggy pizza crust."
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