"Make it three yards, muther####er, and we'll have us an automobile race."
-Two Lane Blacktop
"It's got a cop motor, a 440 cubic inch plant, it's got cop tires, cop suspensions, cop shocks. It's a model made before catalytic converters so it'll run good on regular gas."
-If you've gotta ask who said it, go turn in your man card.
The parts of Dirty Mary always made me want a '66 Imp sedan with a BMF of a 540 under the hood.
The better line, though: "Top end is UNlimited..."
In the clip you posted you can hear that Susan George is actually English, faking an American accent for this role.
I keep seeing 66 four hardtops on Craigslist for $2500. I found a 66 Caprice sedan with a 396, AC, pwr everything for $5000. Super clean dark blue with a black vinyl top, same granny brocade material seats like my 70..
"Deke, what'd you do this thing?" "I just hit it with a bigger hammer."
American Grafitti probably has the most and the best but I always liked this one from "Thunder Road"
"You. You're on my mind. You finally made the big mistake tonight, Kogan. Niles Penland was a mistake... Jethro Moultrie and Williams - that was a mistake, that was a big mistake, a bad mistake, but tonight you made the *big* mistake. You put your dirty, fat hands on my kid brother. I swore I'd *kill* anybody who tried to make him a whisky runner. I'm on my way into Memphis right now, and when I get there you're gonna find out that I meant *exactly* what I said."
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