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"Without a real car, I'm only half a man."
"You don't understand what happens, do you? They make ten thousand cars, they make them exactly the same way, and one or two of 'em turn out to be something special. Nobody knows why."
"I may be kidding myself, but I think I can make something out of that sad little bucket of bolts."
"Has everybody gone nuts around here? I can understand how Tennessee feels, he's just in off a flying saucer."
"[to Herbie, sotto voce] I'm your friend."
"Up the Irish!"
"[seeing a sabotaged spare wheel] Thorndyke again. He made a pizza outta it!"
"I salute your honesty, my dear, a quality not necessarily to be despised."
"At a time like this, whatever kind of time it is, I always say money serves to ease the pain."
"Sometimes I really don't like myself…"
"[caught in Herbie's cargo compartment] Get me outta here!"
"Herbie Will Honk His Way Into Your Heart."
"It's a Love-in for Herbie... the incredible little car who shifts for himself!"
"Dean Jones - James Jim Douglas"
"Michele Lee - Carole Bennet"
"David Tomlinson - Peter Thorndyke"
"Buddy Hackett - Tennessee Steinmetz"
"Joe Flynn - Havershaw"
"Benson Fong - Mr. Wu"
"Joe E. Ross - Detective"
"Barry Kelley - Police sergeant"
"Iris Adrian - Carhop"
"Volkswagen Beetle - Herbie"
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.