Dave Barry Quotes

I like cars. I know some things. I can change my own car and battery and change my own oil.

I love working on cars.

My first car was, as depicted in 'Sleepwalk with Me,' my mother's '92 Volvo station wagon that had 80,000 miles on it, and I had put 40,000 miles on it, so by the time it retired it had 120,000, and I basically killed it. It served me well, and my mechanic was always very angry with me because I just didn't properly care for it.

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

I can change a tire, but I couldn't change a fuse on the computer panel on my car.

Today there are two points where a car manufacturer has interaction with you as an owner of a car. One, you buy the car. Two, you go to the car shop to repair the car.

Actually, I've been a mechanic. My first job was in a gas station changing tires and pumping gas.

I've always had good connections with cars and always knew how to fix them, so I didn't have trouble with breakdowns.

Let me tell about Tennessee. If your car breaks down in Tennessee, you have just moved to Tennessee.

We girls should have to change a tire or take a 'change your oil' class in high school instead of taking home economics, because we'd benefit from that.

In theory, cars are fairly simple. If they don't start, it's either the fuel system or the electrical system. Teach yourself about the path of each in your engine and tracing it is fairly straightforward. But at the beginning, mastering each new system seems like an unreachable shore. The car is effectively a black box.

The easiest and simplest thing that any one can do to make their car safer, more gas efficient, whatever - check the tire pressure.

I have motor oil running through my veins.

I'm a huge NASCAR fan, but I'm not a gearhead. I've never been into fixing cars. It's not because I don't like it. I would love to know more. It's just my dad never taught me that stuff because my dad wasn't a mechanic.

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

When I was little, I used to work with my dad on the engine of his car. Mostly this was a matter of me handing him wrenches.

This is like my dad's race team where we had one Legend car. If we wrecked it, we couldn't race the next week unless we had enough parts to put it back together again.

As a GM Goodwrench Service Plus dealer, I understand how good service makes a difference to our customers.

At a car dealership, the person who sells the car is the hero, and also gets the commission. But if the mechanics don't service that car well, the customer won't return.

I've never been big on cars. When I first got to Hollywood, I bought a used car from Avis. I drove that until I almost had to pay someone to tow it away.

I'm a sort of nuts-and-bolts guy. I'm into turning wrenches and swinging a hammer and wrenching on cars.

I fix the human chassis, I tune up human engines, I recharge human batteries, and I adjust human transmissions.

I'm not very good with cars. They rebel against me.

Some men take good care of a car; others treat it like one of the family.

You might be a redneck if there are four or more cars up on blocks in the front yard.