New Year Quotes

New Year’s is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls and humbug resolutions. ~ Mark Twain

Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go. ~ Brooks Atkinson

Youth is when you’re allowed to stay up late on New Year’s Eve. Middle age is when you’re forced to. ~ Bill Vaughan

The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year’s Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you’re married to. ~ P. J. O’Rourke

Now there are more overweight people in America than average-weight people. So overweight people are now average… which means, you have met your New Year’s resolution. ~ Jay Leno

New Year’s Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time. ~ James Agate

Making resolutions is a cleansing ritual of self assessment and repentance that demands personal honesty and, ultimately, reinforces humility. Breaking them is part of the cycle. ~ Eric Zorn

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the New Year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves. ~ Bill Vaughan

New Year’s Day is every man’s birthday. ~ Charles Lamb

New Year’s Day now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual. ~ Mark Twain

Happiness is too many things these days for anyone to wish it on anyone lightly. So let’s just wish each other a bile-less New Year and leave it at that. ~ Judith Crist

Many people look forward to the New Year for a new start on old habits. ~ Anonymous

May all your troubles last as long as your New Year’s resolutions! ~ Joey Adams

I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me. ~ Anais Nin

Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account. ~ Oscar Wilde

I’m a little bit older, a little bit wiser, a little bit rounder, but still none the wiser. ~ Robert Paul

A New Year’s resolution is something that goes in one Year and out the other. ~ Anonymous

From New Year’s on the outlook brightens; good humor lost in a mood of failure returns. I resolve to stop complaining. ~ Leonard Bernstein

The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective. Unless a man starts on the strange assumption that he has never existed before, it is quite certain that he will never exist afterwards. Unless a man be born again, he shall by no means enter into the Kingdom of Heaven. ~ G. K. Chesterton

 

1972 Mercedes-Benz 600 Kompressor – Jay Leno’s Garage

Jay takes you for a ride in his very favorite car, a three-ton bespoke beauty meticulously restored by Karl Middelhauve.

Of all the cars in his garage, you’d think Jay Leno would struggle to choose a favorite – not quite. On this episode, Jay takes us for a ride in his #1: the 1972 Mercedes-Benz 600 Kompressor. Restored by Karl Middelhauve, it’s no surprise that this Kompressor has a little something extra.

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1972 Mercedes-Benz 600 Kompressor - Jay Leno's Garage

 

1932 Ford Highboy Roadster – Jay Leno’s Garage

Bruce Meyer’s Highboy was the first actual hot rod to grace the cover of Hot Rod Magazine – and now it’s immortalized on a Forever Postal Stamp!

At the turn of the century, it was arguably the Honda Civic that best defined inexpensive performance tuning, and in the ’50s it was the Tri-5 Chevys. One of the earliest platforms to gain a huge following among young people looking for a cheap way to go fast was the classic ’32 Ford Highboy Roadster. This week, Jay Leno’s Garage looks at one of the very first vehicles that defined the look of the hot rod heyday.

This ’32 Ford was built in the ’40s and graced the cover of the fourth issue of Hot Rod Magazine back in 1948. All of the hot rods that you see shining at car shows today owe a serious debt of gratitude to this roadster. It bears all of the cues that define the look, including a notched frame and hidden door hinges. Under the three-piece hood is a flathead V8 boasting all sorts of period modifications, including copper cylinder heads. It was seriously fast in its era too, and proved it by reaching 112.21 miles per hour on a dry lakebed in 1947.

These days, this hot rod is on display at the Petersen Automotive Museum. Although, if you can’t make it to California to see it, the United States Postal Service is celebrating this Ford with one of its two hot rod Forever stamps. Like Jay says in the video, in terms of hot rodding, “it all comes back to this.” Check out the video to learn more about this rolling piece of tuning history.

1932 Ford Highboy Roadster - Jay Leno's Garage

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2002 Twin Engine Mini Cooper – Jay Leno’s Garage

Jay Leno test drives a twin-engine MINI Cooper (TWINI). It’s exactly what it sounds like, a Hatch that has a Cooper S engine on the front axle and one on the rear one.

Enjoy!

Jay Leno is no stranger to bizarre cars — this is the man who finds room in his garage for the Blastolene Special, a.k.a. the Tank Car, after all. So you might think it’s odd that he’s devoted an episode of his “Jay Leno’s Garage” web series to a 2002 Mini Cooper. These cars typically aren’t that crazy, even if they’re wearing racing livery and an aggressive body kit.

But this isn’t just any boy-racer Mini: It’s Jacques Andres’ boy-racer Mini, and he’s done a number of special modifications to the little car. See, it’s been converted to a rear-engine, rear-wheel drive model, which already sets it apart from the pack. Except that the front engine, which drives the front wheels, is still there. Each engine does 250 hp for a total of — if our math is correct — around 500 hp.

There’s two of almost everything drivetrain-related, including tachometers, ignition systems (the car can be run with just one if need be) and even front suspensions (one’s repurposed for the rear). Thanks to drive-by-wire components like the throttle, which replace troublesome mechanical linkages, “it’s actually worked out quite easily,” Andres explains.

Yeah. If you say so, dude.

Anyway, Andres built didn’t build his Twini — enough of these have been built since the original Mini debuted for the type of vehicle to have a name — to serve as a curiosity. He built it to run down much more expensive cars on the race track.

Leno gives it a bit of exercise on the road, calling it the “ultimate canyon carver.” Unfortunately, it’s not quite street-legal at the moment, but we’re sure it’s a blast on the track.

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2002 Twin Engine Mini Cooper - Jay Leno's Garage

 

1910 Buick Bug – Jay Leno’s Garage

In 1910 Buick made a racing car with a 4-cylinder 622-cubic-inch (10.2-liter) engine. That’s more than the Viper or any other road car that’s mass-produced today. Still, the Buick Bug only had about 50 hp.

Get your road goggles on! Buick built only two 4-cylinder, 622-cubic-inch 60 Specials, and Jeremy Dimick of Flint’s Sloan Museum brought one down to the garage for a test drive!

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