--- title: "1 Car Parts Quotes By Deborah Ford" description: "1 Car Parts quotes by Deborah Ford. Plus more from Deborah Ford and more Car Parts sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/21d/deborah-ford-5148_another-day_my-daddy-and-my-car-by-marilyn-akers-geo_2174422.jpg" --- > [“ My Daddy and My Car By Marilyn Akers, Georgia Grits At fifteen, I came home from school one afternoon to find a faded red car with a white hardtop and a damaged front fender parked in the driveway. Since…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/deborah-ford/my-daddy-and-my-car-by-marilyn-akers-georgia-grits-at-fifteen-i-came/) [Deborah Ford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/deborah-ford/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/21d/deborah-ford-5148_another-day_my-daddy-and-my-car-by-marilyn-akers-geo_2174422.jpg) ## More by Deborah Ford > [“ “Do Southerners laugh at different things than Northerners do? Yes, I say--Northerners.” Roy Blount, Jr., Roy Blount’s Book of Southern Humor”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/deborah-ford/do-southerners-laugh-at-different-things-than-northerners-do-yes-i/) [Deborah Ford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/deborah-ford/) > [“Grits Glossary blues \\’blüz\\ n: nothing but a good man singing about hardship, sorrow, and the things he’s done wrong--but sake’s alive, they make…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/deborah-ford/grits-glossary-blues-bl-z-n-nothing-but-a-good-man-singing-about/) [Deborah Ford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/deborah-ford/) > [“ “In the South, football is confused with religion, chivalry, the Civil War, and women.” -Diane Roberts, The Quotable South ”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/deborah-ford/in-the-south-football-is-confused-with-religion-chivalry-the-civil/) [Deborah Ford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/deborah-ford/) > [“ The Grits Guide to Southern Humor “If you don’t make fun of yourself, somebody is going to do it for you.” -Martie Maguire,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/deborah-ford/the-grits-guide-to-southern-humor-if-you-don-t-make-fun-of-yourself/) [Deborah Ford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/deborah-ford/) > [“ A Grits girl treated without TLC may end up a PMS…a Precious Moody Southerner! ”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/deborah-ford/a-grits-girl-treated-without-tlc-may-end-up-a-pms-a-precious-moody/) [Deborah Ford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/deborah-ford/) > [“ If the sweet lilt of a soft Southern accent isn’t music to the ears, we just don’t know what is. Music isn’t just…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/deborah-ford/if-the-sweet-lilt-of-a-soft-southern-accent-isn-t-music-to-the-ears/) [Deborah Ford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/deborah-ford/) > [“ Redneck Rules of Etiquette • To avoid bruising wine as you decant it, make sure to tilt the paper cup. • Your centerpiece…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/deborah-ford/redneck-rules-of-etiquette-to-avoid-bruising-wine-as-you-decant-it/) [Deborah Ford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/deborah-ford/) > [“Grits Pearl of Wisdom #13: If anyone tries to tell you a Southern girl shouldn’t drink, just tell them the truth: we don’t drink,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/deborah-ford/grits-pearl-of-wisdom-13-if-anyone-tries-to-tell-you-a-southern-girl/) [Deborah Ford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/deborah-ford/) > [“Grits Pearl of Wisdom #39: It’s been said that love makes the world go round. That may be true, but friendship keeps the world…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/deborah-ford/grits-pearl-of-wisdom-39-it-s-been-said-that-love-makes-the-world-go/) [Deborah Ford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/deborah-ford/) > [“If you’re single and you’re not having the greatest fun of your life, it’s high time to reassess your priorities. It may be hard…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/deborah-ford/if-you-re-single-and-you-re-not-having-the-greatest-fun-of-your-life/) [Deborah Ford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/deborah-ford/) > [“ “The biggest myth about Southern women is that we are frail types--fainting on our sofas…nobody where I grew up ever acted like that.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/deborah-ford/the-biggest-myth-about-southern-women-is-that-we-are-frail-types/) [Deborah Ford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/deborah-ford/) > [“Grits Glossary hillbilly \\’hil-,bi-lē\\ n: a derogatory term that refers to people living in the next county or town; alternate forms include redneck, cracker,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/deborah-ford/grits-glossary-hillbilly-hil-bi-l-n-a-derogatory-term-that-refers-to/) [Deborah Ford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/deborah-ford/) > [“Entertaining is a way of life for the Southern girl. We’ve been doing it for over three hundred years now, and we’re not too…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/deborah-ford/entertaining-is-a-way-of-life-for-the-southern-girl-we-ve-been-doing/) [Deborah Ford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/deborah-ford/) > [“ Men are important to Southern girls, but they don’t define us. ”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/deborah-ford/men-are-important-to-southern-girls-but-they-don-t-define-us/) [Deborah Ford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/deborah-ford/) > [“Finding and keeping a lifelong partner is a common dream of all girls, everywhere. Women love men (well, most of us, anyway--Ellen DeGeneres is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/deborah-ford/finding-and-keeping-a-lifelong-partner-is-a-common-dream-of-all-girls/) [deborah ford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/deborah-ford/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/car-parts/deborah-ford/#itemlist", "name": "1 Car Parts Quotes By Deborah Ford", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“ My Daddy and My Car By Marilyn Akers, Georgia Grits At fifteen, I came home from school one afternoon to find a faded red car with a white hardtop and a damaged front fender parked in the driveway. Since my daddy often worked on cars, both for himself and others, I noticed it only in passing. That is until my daddy explained that it was a 1971 Mercury Comet…and it was mine! Trouble was, it had a blown engine, and it was my job to overhaul it. So after school and on weekends I washed car parts, rode to the junk yard for replacement parts (and foot-long hot dogs from the Dairy Queen), handed my dad all sorts of tools, fixed coffee with cream and sugar, and occasionally got to do a “real” job under the hood. I remember being so excited when he asked me to get on the creeper and roll under the car (the children were never allowed under the car!) to tighten a fender bolt. Another day, I helped him connect the spark-plug wires to the distributor cap. I asked him why this particular job was so important for him to show me. He replied, “So if you’re ever out with a boy and the car breaks down, you’ll know what to look for.” He meant intentional removal of the wires, and it didn’t occur to me until many years later to ask if that advice was from personal experience! When the engine work was done, we took it to Earl Scheib for one of his infamous $99 paint jobs. I was so proud of that car and the work done side by side with my dad. We sold it less than a year later, after I stuck my foot through a rusted hole in the floorboard. I lost my dad in 2001 following a sixteen-year battle with Alzheimer’s Disease. 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