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“We want to appeal to everyone and get rich quick. We want to be millionaires. I've got this plan to buy Tasmania you see.”

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Angus Young

Angus Young, born on March 31, 1955, is an iconic Australian guitarist. He is a founding member of the rock band AC/DC and is renowned for his unique playing style and signature guitar solos. more

“At Car and Driver, we were convinced that the automobile, as we knew and loved it, was as dead as the passenger pigeon. Ralph Nader was at full cry, ringing his tocsin of automobile doom into the brains of the public, convincing them that the lump of chrome and iron in the driveway was as lethal as a dose of Strontium 90 or a blast from a Viet Cong AK-47.”

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Author:Brock Yates

“Some guy once told me that skydiving is like cutting your throat and seeing if you can get to the doctor before you bleed to death.”

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Author:Brock Yates

“As the saying goes, truth is stranger than fiction. But only when the reality has not been subsumed by foamy legends and fantasies that radiate outward from the actual event.”

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Author:Brock Yates

“While greenies and their media flunkies continue to savage the gasoline-powered internal-combustion engine and rhapsodize about hybrids, hydrogen, electrics, natural gas, propane, nuclear, and God-knows-what-other panaceas, perhaps including bovine urine, there are no realistic, economically viable alternatives. None. Zero. Like it or not, as long as we remain dependent on the private automobile for transportation (roughly 80 percent of all movement in the nation is by car), we are harnessed to the IC gas engine.”

“Will a day come when our cars have carbon-fiber tubs, 18,000-rpm V-10 engines, and ground-effects tunnels? Perhaps, about the same time we have condos on the moon.”

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Author:Brock Yates

“A written regulation in NASCAR is about as reliable as an Egyptian immigration law.”

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Book:NASCAR Off the Record

Source: NASCAR Off the Record

“The whole movie thing has never been a source of great pride for me, in that Burt Reynolds, who starred in the picture, butchered the original script I had written for the late Steve McQueen, and the result, while a massive moneymaker, was lashed by the critics. But like the old joke about Pierre the Bridge Builder, The Cannonball Run is indelibly inscribed on my so-called career portfolio, and few conversations with strangers pass without the subject of the picture arising.”

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Author:Brock Yates

“Everything at a NASCAR event carries a corporate logo except the lavatory stalls.”

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Author:Brock Yates

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