Used Cars (1980)

Frank McRae: Jim the Mechanic

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Quotes 

• [President Carter on television] 

  President Carter : -high inflation. What is the solution?

  [Television cuts to the commercial for Luke's yard taking place in Roy's yard] 

  Jeff : You want the solution to inflation? Hi, friends. Marshall Lucky here for New Deal Used Cars, where we're lowering inflation not only by fighting high prices, not only by murdering high prices, but by blowing the living shit out of high prices. Yes sir. Here's an example. It's a 1972 Cadillac Coupe DeVille, for sixty-two ninety-nine. That price is too high.

  [shoots the car] 

  Jeff : Yes sir. Here's another one. It's a Lincoln Continental, Mark IV, 1973. It's loaded. It's got air conditioning. It's got a stereo. It's got white-wall radial tires. It's got power steering, power brakes, power seats, power windows. And a price that is just too high.

  [shoots the car] 

  Jeff : Yes sir.

  [Jim appears on the car behind him in costume] 

  Jim the Mechanic : YAAAAAAHHHH.

  Freddie Paris : [on microphone]  Look out, Marshall Lucky. It's High Prices.

  Jeff : Take this, you dirty ol' High Prices.

  [shoots Jim, who puts on a very convincing act] 

  Jim the Mechanic : AHHHH. Ya got me Marshall. Ahhhhh...

  Jeff : [shocked]  Jesus Christ.

  [winks at the screen] 

  Jeff : Yes sir, that's New Deal Used Cars... Now wait just a Goddamn minute. What the hell is this? Is this a 1974 Mercedes 450SL for *twenty-four thousand dollars*? That's too fucking high.

  [blows up the car with dynamite. Roy watches at home] 

  Roy L. Fuchs : You son of a bitch.

  Jeff : [laughs]  Yes sir. We blew the shit out of that over-priced motherfucker just the way we blow the shit out of *all* high prices, down here at New Deal Used Cars. So y'all come on down. Did you hear what I said? New Deal Used Cars. So y'all come on down. Did you hear what I said?

  [Television cuts back to the President] 

  President Carter : I have heard you, with unmistakable clarity...

  Roy L. Fuchs : You son of a bitch.

  [kicks the televison and electrocutes himself] 

• Rudy Russo : C'mon, Jeff! You've seen how bad business is. Thanks to Fuchs, our name is mud! Look... we had nuns, protesting out front when I got here this morning.

  Jeff : Nuns?

  Rudy Russo : Yeah. I had to have Jim turn the firehose on them.

  Jim the Mechanic : [holds up the still wet firehose]  And I knocked them motherfuckers right on they asses, too.

• Jim the Mechanic : Maroon car, my ass. This motherfucker's red.

• Jim the Mechanic : I don't know, Rudy. I ain't never sold no damn cars before.

  Rudy Russo : It's easy, Jim. All you have to do is get them in that car. Nothing sells a car better than a car itself. Now remember this, you have to get their confidence, get their friendship, get their trust. Then get their money.

• [Rudy and Big Jim are watching Barbara's commercial, which has been doctored] 

  Barbara Jane Fuchs : Come down and see the, uh, mile of cars we have on our lot.

  Rudy Russo : Did she just say "mile of cars"? She said she had a "mile of cars".

  Jim the Mechanic : That's the most blatant claim of false advertising I ever heard in my life...

• Jim the Mechanic : Jesus Palomino!

• Jim the Mechanic : See the nice red upholstery?

  Mr. Books : Yes, nice, very nice.

  Jim the Mechanic : Here, feel it.

  Mr. Books : I don't want to feel it.

  Jim the Mechanic : Feel it, I want you to get in the car and feel it.

  Mr. Books : I don't want to get in the car.

  Jim the Mechanic : Awww, get in the mother-fuckin' car, man!

  [throws the customer in the car] 

• Jeff : [about the explanation for Luke's sudden disappearance]  No-one's going to believe he went to Miami, nobody goes to Miami!

  Rudy Russo : OLD people go to Miami, he's old isn't he? Where do you want him to go, Aspen?

  Jeff : [looking at the '59 Edsel]  Aspen? Fuck Aspen, this crate won't go around the block...

  Jim the Mechanic : The fuck it won't! This motherfucker runs!