Yes, my grandfather worked with Thomas Edison on the electric car, and he sold electric cars at the 1900 World’s Fair in Paris.
On one level, nothing’s really changed in my life. I still drive my daughter in the car pool on Monday. But it’s impossible not to be aware of this rush of attention it’s impossible not to be seduced by it once you’ve entered into it, seduced by being unhappy when the attention wanes.
He leaned about the same way in falling towards Jacqueline, forward, down towards the bottom of the car.
Obviously the first sentiment is disappointment that we didn’t get the car home and more disappointment that at the time that it stopped the car was in the lead.
When I’m in the car and somebody comes on the radio singing the high notes, I try to sing along.
I get appalled when I see good drivers being left on the sidelines because they haven’t come up with the half million to a million to put themselves in a competitive car.
Competition among insurers would bring down the cost of health care insurance, just as it brings down the cost of car or homeowners insurance.
When I get in the car I love my wife and kids more than anything, but I’m not thinking about that side of things. I’m thinking about the car, I’m thinking about the race and I’m thinking about how to make the car faster.
So the first thing that I thought about was, ‘How is this car going to handle?’ But then after I’d been driving with it and practicing with it and I accomplished that, then I just kind of sat back.
Cotton Owens was leading and daddy was second. They came up on me and I moved over to let them pass. Cotton went on, but daddy bumped me in the rear and my car went right into the wall.