Automotive Mechanics Quotes

You can know or not know how a car runs and still enjoy riding in a car.

As the son of a racing car designer and mechanical engineer, I was exposed to motorsports from day one.

I don't know one end of a car from another.

I remember in third grade, I asked my mom, 'How does an engine work?' So my mom bought me a book.

It feels blessed to me. Because I go to comic cons, and people come up and they say, 'You're the reason I ride a motorcycle. You're the reason I became a mechanic.' And there are people who love 'Scream' and 'The Waterboy,' 'Royal Pains,' 'Parks & Rec,' 'Arrested Development.' And now 'Barry.' And then there are kids who only know me as an author.

I loved problems on paper, and I was good at math, but I was a mechanical engineer, and I never understood - or cared to - how a car worked.

The days when a car aficionado could repair his or her own car are long past, due primarily to the high software content.

Go into the auto mechanic, you've got to know computers to be able to work on the cars.

Obviously you can make a pretty good living these days as a crew member or a crew chief or as a driver. But the technology is expensive.

As a kid, I had my head under the hood of a car, either an old Ford or a Chevrolet, just learning about it so if anything happened, I could repair it.

I enjoy trying to develop a car and Mercedes are one of the biggest car manufacturers in the world.

I was brought up in a car family, my dad loved cars and I was taught the art of making an Austin 7 operate.

Perhaps I'd like to design cars, but I don't think I'd be much good at it.

I have total admiration for the Renault guys in the garage that are working their socks off, week in, week out.

I put headlights in Ford vans. I still drive a Ford.