Vehicle Restoration Quotes

At home I drive an old Land Rover.

When I started presenting 'Scrapheap Challenge,' I was rubbish at tuning V8 engines.

There's this perception that I've got this huge collection of old cars. I don't.

I had a Super Beetle that I restored and painted deep purple in honor of Jimi Hendrix that was stolen. After that, I got a Ford Falcon that had no windshield wipers, so whenever it rained - which, thankfully, in L.A. it doesn't do very much - I'd have to lean out my driver's side window like 'Ace Ventura: Pet Detective.'

The best car I ever had was a Mazda 626. I paid $72 for it. The guy told me if I towed it off his property I could do whatever I wanted to it. So I paid to have it towed to my house and me and my step-dad fixed it up and drove it until I totalled it.

I have about 40 cars, of which 25 to 30 are what you might call serious.

I've got two old Volvos, two old Subarus, and an old Ford Ranger. If you've got an old car, you've gotta have at least several old cars, 'cause one's always gonna be in the garage.

I've always worked on my own home and different places that I've owned. I really enjoyed it. But I'm a mechanic, a motorcycle and car builder.

I like to have one car that I can be certain will go. The thing about classic cars is you can't always assume they will go.

I really love muscle cars. I don't think people might realize that about me. I really want to go to an auto auction and blow my life savings on a Camaro. They have such design around them, such panache.

I have a little Honda Del Sol that I just refuse to get rid of.

My goal in the beginning was to build a lifestyle brand around what I love to do, which is motorcycles and cars. That was our main goal from the very beginning.

You can put an extra coat of paint on a jalopy, but it's still a jalopy.

I've been into cars my whole life, I've always bought and sold a few here and there on the side, as kind of a hobby.

I've always been in love with Land Rovers and Range Rovers. I own one and was able to make it a little more exclusive.

I developed a passion for cars when I was a kid. I found a tyre on the street, and I figured that I could roll it successfully. That made me love wheels.

I have a Chevy Impala that I roll around in and a '89 Jeep Wrangler, which is the first car I ever bought. It has 180,000 miles on it, and that is my daily whip. I take that everywhere. Don't forget where you came from, that's why I'll never get rid of that Jeep.

My passion outside of music is that I am a total gear head. My wife and I own six vehicles, three of which are off-road.