Given our BangShift Daily Tune Up is a song that we all grew to relove in Days of Thunder, a movie that has a ton of great lines to quote, we figured it would be fitting to have our BangShift Question of the Day be about great movie and TV quotes. And since we are BangShift.com, it’s only fitting that they be car guy, or gal, movies and TV show that we ask you about. This doesn’t mean it has to be Days of Thunder, Dukes of Hazzard, Top Gear, Smokey and the Bandit or Cars. It can be Bullet, Rockford Files, The Fall Guy, A-Team, CHiPs, Streets of San Francisco, or any movie or TV show that was known for car chases, or is car centric. You know what car guy shows are, so roll with it. Think Ian on Extreme 4×4 said the funniest thing ever, great. Think it was Judge Hardcastle in Hardcastle and McCormick? It’s up to you, and we want to hear from you.
Give us your best and we’ll talk about them next week on PowerShift LIVE right here at BangShift.com.
So…What is your favorite car guy movie or TV quote?
While Bullit is a great movie, another McQueen movie is my favorite,. The Great Escape is my all-time favorite. Followed by Die Hard!
Lou Santiago on Spike’s Musclecar, “I can see it in my head but my hands keep messing it up”. May not sound all that funny but he said what I had thought a thousand times. Every time I try to fab something I think of that comment and laugh a little.
OK, Aussie bias, but Mad Max. My fave line from the film (not sure if its in the US dubbed version) but in the Aussie one, first time max sees the black coupe, one of the other guys says ` kick it in the guts, Barry’ *Aussie talk for `gentlemen, start your engine”
My favorite quote is from Gumball Ralley. Raul Julia says ” What’s behind me is not important!” Of course its sounds better in his Italian accent!
…and the fact that he was ripping off the rear-view mirror while he said it… Lol…
Multiple scenes in Smokey and the Bandit. Too many to mention, mostly by Jackie Gleason.
Milner to Falfa in American Graffiti ; “Paradise Road.”
Falfa to Toad: “I ain’t nobody…Dork.”
Bob Falfa: Hey man, I’m sorry if I scared ya!
John Milner: You’re gonna hafta do one hell of a lot more than that to scare me!
Bob Falfa: Hey I’ve been lookin’ all over for ya man. Didn’t nobody tell ya I was lookin’ for ya?
John Milner: Man, I can’t keep track of all you punks runnin’ ’round here backwards.
Bob Falfa: Hey you’re s’posed to be the fastest thing in the Valley man, but that can’t be your car. It must be your mama’s car! I’m sorta’ embarrassed to be this close to ya!
John Milner: Yeah, well I’m not surprised, drivin’ a field car!
Bob Falfa: Field car? What’s a field car?
John Milner: A field car runs through the fields, droppin’ cow shit all over the place to make the lettuce grow.
Bob Falfa: Ha ha! That’s pretty good! Say, I like the color of your car there, man. What’s that s’posed to be? Sort of a cross between piss yella’ and puke green ain’t it?
John Milner: Well, you call that a paint job, but it’s pretty ugly. I bet you got to sneak up on the pumps just to get a little air in your tires!
Bob Falfa: Well at least I don’t have to pull over to the side just to let a funeral go by man.
John Milner: Oh ho, funny!
Really nobody is quoting Days of Thunder??
Ahem
Referring to Chad’s pic of the magnificent Fred Thompson above
“If you two turkeys want to turn yourselves into a greasy spot on some country road. Go ahead. I don’t give a shit and I don’t think anybody else will either”
Smokey and the Bandit
Big Enus and Little Enus
Big Enus- “What does this hear truck rodeo pay out?”
Little Enus “$2500 daddy”
Big Enus- “Chicken shit money, how about a real challenge”
From Two Lane Blacktop,,,,,,,,,,
“Make it 5 yards motherfucker and we’ll have us an automobile race”
From Moonshine Highway,,,,,,,,,,,,A little context. LOL (Hooch trying to convince Jed to quit running shine and go roundy round racing)
Hooch: “Picture all them good ole boys runnin’ a hunnert mile an hour door handle to door handle”
Jed Muldoon: “Hell I don’t even turn on the headlights til I’m runnin’ a hunnert and fifty”
“Hey Benny, I hope you got your wood screws!”
Dazed and Confused
The best quote has got to be from “Days of Thunder”.
Team owner Harry Hogge (Robert Duvall) says to driver Cole Trickle (Tom Cruise), “Now I want you to go out there and run into the pacecar. you’ve hit everything else!” Or something to that effect…
From the Aussie cult car movie Running on Empty…. Spoto a Chev, a blown 57′ Chev, a two door…..http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4qDyWTNOEo
From Wise Blood the 1979 classic movie…http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xTlG9u3-dw&list=PL70D2B054886C9624
Dourif: “Listen, dig this! Nobody with a good car needs to worry about nothin’, do you understand? Nobody with a good car needs to be justified. And I’ll tell you why. I come a long way since I believed in anything and I come halfway around the world.”
Stanton: “What are you talking about?”
Dourif: “Where you came from is gone, where you thought you were going weren’t never there and where you are ain’t no good unless you can get away from it…”
From the Australian version of Mad Max one (US Road Warrior)…..
The Toecutter – he knows who I am. I am the Nightrider! I am the chosen one. The mighty hand of vengeance, sent down to strike the unroadworthy! I’m hotter than a rollin’ dice. Step right up, chum, and watch the kid lay down the rubber road, ride to freedom!
I am the Nightrider. I’m a fuel injected suicide machine. I am the rocker, I am the roller, I am the out-of-controller!
Reece Bobby…(semi professional race car driver and amateur tattoo artiest)
“it’s the fastest who get paid… and the fastest who get paid”
“if you ain’t first, your last”
“Racing is life… everything before and after is just waiting”
Michael Delaney in LeMans (Steve McQueen)
Hollywood Kinghts- “you squirrells better have some nuts in your mouth!”
“Was that floatin like a Cadillac, or was that stingin like a Bimmer? I’m confused.” Paul Newman as Doc Hudson in “Cars”.
“It’s a hundred and six miles to Chicago. We’ve got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it’s dark and we’re wearing sunglasses.”
The best part of Fast and the Furious:Tokyo Drift, besides the Monte Carlo:
Clay: This beast’s got 500-horsepower and a Borla exhaust system. It does 0-60 in what, 4.3 seconds?
Shawn Boswell: Wow. You can read the brochure.
Cole: I need to pit…
Harry: You can’t pit, we’re busy
Cole: Busy?
Harry: We’re eating Icceee Cream
Cole: ICE CREAM!
Harry: Yes, Ice Cream. You’re more than welcome to come join us, but I think NASCAR may have a problem with you riding around the track eating an Ice Cream Cone.
“I’m Nikolas Van Helsing, professor of proctology and other related tendencies. A graduate of the University of Rangoon. And assorted night classes at the Knoxville Tennessee school of faith healing.” – Jack Elam in Cannonball Run
Gator McKlusky: Only two things in the world I’m scared of.
JC Connors: Only two things? What’s that?
Gator McKlusky: Women and the police.
The worlds Fastest Indian – “If you don’t go when you want to go, when you do go, you’ll find you’ve gone.”
Cars – “These white-wall tires they say look at me, here I am, love me.”
Gotta be my odd yet personal favorites.
There are so many but most have already been mentioned…one of my all time fav’s tho is this….From used cars.
Mickey: I know how ya feel, Old Man. I had a dog once… ran away… only she got hit by a truck. Now what’s the story on this ’57 Chev here, uh $2400? C’mon, you gotta be jackin’ me!
Luke Fuchs: Now son, you’re lookin’ at one of the finest automobiles on this lot. Y’know, I rebuilt that engine with my own two hands.
Mickey: Does it run?
Luke Fuchs: Does it run? Like a dream.
Mickey: Well Old Man… for $2400, it better run like a *wet* dream
From Two Lane Blacktop -” I think its the jets man.”
” Ronin ” hands down . Best non computerized car chases ever . Killer selection of cars … both driven and in the background . Fantastic scenery ( Coute d’Azure , Arl , Paris and Nice ) The ultimate in car guy movies by far !
Most memorable quote from the film ;
” Ahhhhhhh … Vienna “
Guitar Slinger,you’re right about the chase scene in Ronin. I don’t know that it’s “THE BEST” but it is damn sure one of the best.
nobody is quoting the movie “Hot Rod”. There are so many.
Elwood Blues: We threw a rod.
Jake Blues: Is that bad?
Elwood Blues: Yep.
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, as the car is careening down the side of a mountain…”In a situation like this, you can’t take your hands off the wheel for even a second. See?”
Drive In: “Damn Chevy’s always a quart low”
Black Dog, as they feel a bump in the truck “What was that?” “A Mazda”
Two Lane Blacktop: The mechanic…”We need to get some bread to work on the carbs and check out the rear end” The Girl…”I don’t see anyone checking out my rear end”
Aloha Bobby & Rose, What do ya want to do, get married, move to the country, & have a bunch of kids?
I can’t believe something from Christine hasn’t been quoted…….you know, the old pissy garage owner yellin “ya can’t polish a turd”……….He had some great one liners
Two Lane Blacktop:
“check the bite” <-first words in the movie
"She don't seem to be breathin right…might be the jets"
"He better find himself a relief driver or he's in trouble…unless he has some uppers"
THE ORIGINAL VANISHING POINT KOWALSKI TO MANY GOOD LINES TO QUOTE
nothing for Gone in 60 seconds? “i am a bad man”, ” a girl car, how can a Hemi Cuda be a girl car?”
Grand Prix is my favorite movie and the quote is from ‘Jean-Pierre Sarte’, played by Yves Montand.
“Racing car drivers don’t have very good imaginations. If they could imagine themselves hanging from a tree after a 150 mile per hour crash they wouldn’t be racing cars.” (paraphrased)
Second favorite quote is from ‘Le Mans’ and Steve McQueen. “Racing is life… everything before and after is waiting.”
Third favorite quote is not T.V. or movie related but from racer Eddie Sachs. “Over the long run, death is the odds-on favorite.”
Jake: Fix the cigarette lighter
My wife says:
Eddie: “Someone’s stolen the bloody steering wheel!”
— Absolutely Fabulous
Cars- Sally Carrera “Well, the road didn’t cut through the land like that interstate. It moved with the land, it rose, it fell, it curved. Cars didn’t drive on it to make great time. They drove on it to have a great time.”
From American Graffiti “this car might be better then darryl starbirds superflex moonbird, it is!! It is better than darryl starbirds superflex moonbird” -Toad