"That metallic grinding means her throwout bearings are shot. She's backfiring through her carburetor. The tick indicates transmission trouble, and the smoke means, she's on fire." . .
"If I were a surgeon, Mr. Ferguson, which I ain't, and your car was my patient, which it ain't---except that it is, in a funny sort of way; that is, if you want to look at it like that; you know what I mean---and you was her husband, I'd have to say, 'Sir, your wife is going to need a valve job.' "