Professor Smith's first paperback hit (with over 100,000 copies sold) has become the mechanic's and engineer's bible.

"We're all a bunch of mugs! We work twenty-four hours a day, don't eat; we don't sleep and we spend all of our money just so we can go out again next Sunday and break the damned car."
--Horst Kwech, circa 1970

"...More relevant, perhaps, is his experience in getting people out of shit. All that he seems to require is the same desire to win on the part of the driver and the mechanics (if any) as he has himself. To say that his desire is single minded would be a gross understatement. It is fantastic."
--Jon Woodner (Foreward)