Parse Error

I hate to post this again but I have looked in a couple of php and mysql books but cannot seem to figure this one out. I am getting a parse error when trying to use php to delete records from a table. The error I am recieving is as follows.... Parse error: parse error in /path/to/php/done2.php3 on line 22 Here is the file that is giving me the error, any help would be great... I think that my problem is that I left out a variable to hold the $cars data but I am not sure. Here is the code... $db_name = "test"; $table_name = "inventory"; $connection = @mysql_connect("localhost", "root", "password") or die ("Could not connect to database. Please try again later."); $db = @mysql_select_db("$db_name",$connection) or die ("Could not select database table. Please try again later."); $sql = "DELETE FROM $table_name WHERE $cars = \"$car_type\",\"$car_model\",\"$car_year\",\"$car_price\",\"$car_vin\",\"$dl r_num\""); $result = @mysql_query($sql, $connection) or die ("Could not execute query. Any insight would be great... thanks again. Jas