Craig T. Nelson Quotes

I've always loved hot rods and going to drag races.

I'd be a race car driver. I love fast cars.

I love speed. I love racing cars, whether it's on the streets or wherever. Don't tell the St. Louis police, though.

I have an old car that I've rebuilt myself - a 1973 Dodge Challenger - and I also have a 1967 Pontiac GTO.

The GTO is such an important car because it's a racing car and a touring car and that's pretty unusual.

I went to watch my father at Silverstone in the early 1950s, and I've still got the car he was in.

But my passion is racing cars. It's what I like to do in my off time.

My favorite car is a '69 Barracuda.

I don't race cars.

In the movies, every crazy old fart needs a cool old car. Jack Nicholson drove a spiffy yellow 1970 Dodge Challenger two-door in 'The Bucket List.' In 'Gran Torino,' the cranky pensioner played by Clint Eastwood not only owned a 1972 GT Sport, he also used to build cars like that at the Ford plant.

I have a whole new appreciation for Carroll Shelby, the Ford program of the 1960s, and it's awesome that Superformance is keeping the dream alive with their incredible cars.

I had a lot of fun driving race cars, but it wasn't my No. 1 priority.

First time I looked at a Formula One car in person, I just stared at the cockpit, figuring I'd never get in there. The drivers wear the whole car like a tight-fitting suit.

My friend is a former race car driver, so he races for Mercedes, and I root for him. I have a car that I love to race, I'll take it to the track.

People spend so much time in their cars, and it's a legal way to have fun by speeding a little bit or testing yourself a little bit, and you get to invest in your car. For some people, it becomes their baby.

I drive a Mustang. A 2005 five-speed GT convertible.

I have yet to meet anyone quite so stubborn as myself and animated by this overpowering passion that leaves me no time for thought or anything else. I have, in fact, no interest in life outside racing cars.

My first car was a '56 Ford station wagon - cost 100 bucks.

I really like driving cars. I love car games.

The Cobra is my personal favorite car. The original 289 Cobra is the car I respect the most. I like to drive the 289 better than the 427.

I love everything from old-school cars to whatever the latest muscle or luxury vehicles are.

I'd kind of like to have a classic old muscle car. I think that would be fun.

Any time you can get a muscle car back, it's a good thing.

The reason I moved to California the first time was to build the Cobra. I thought it was stupid to have a 1918 taxicab engine in what Europeans like to call a performance car when a little American V-8 could do the job better.

I have one car that works; it's fast and safe: an Audi 5. And I have two old cars that never work: an old Peugeot convertible, and an Alfa Romeo Giulia.