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Dean

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Folks, I'm a hot rodder from the 1960s (OK, maybe a bit earlier when I was a wannabee), and I love car songs.

Below is a link to the best version of Hot Rod Lincoln, probably the first "car song" though one could make a case for Rocket 88.

What are your favorites?

Dean
Hot Rod Lincoln
 
I love the Beach Boys car songs, Wayne.

Though Shut Down is my favorite, 409 is a close second.

FWIW, I built both SHP 327s and SHP 409s.

There was no ground pounder like the SHP 409.

Dean
 
what was that song with the little nash rambler going beep beep?,,How about little GTO?Three dueces and a four speed,,and a 389,,listen to her tacking up now,,my little burn em up tear it up blow em out GTO,,(or something like that,,my memmory is not right on),,some more//...Little duece coupe....you dont know what I got,,,,///and,,shell have fun fun fun till her Daddy takes her T bird away
 
Here ya go. When I was young that song was just so dang funny. I always picture it with the little Metro. One of my dads friends had one for his daughter to drive to school. Little 4cyl. Austin engine.
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Nash .
 
American Pie. Drove my chebbie to the levee. Probably because I was driving a GMC pickup in those days. Or Wolf Creek Pass in the rented you drive it army Jeep car.
American Pie
 
That is one of the few songs that has been covered by so many,with no butcher jobs.Every cover I have heard of it has been great.I think the latest was by Asleep At The Wheel.
 
Though not really a car song, a great song, Steve.

Mario Andretti would have sure been proud at the way I was a wheeling when I passed that crowd....
 
Cannot remember the title , but like the one where the fellow stopped a quick shop in a corvette and the old man liked the brunette but did not want the car Als1o liked riding with Private Malone
 
Dean, I'm a big fan of 50's n 60's Rock n Roll. I narrowed down my favorite 735 oldies songs and put on my I Pod. On the same 80 GB I pod I also have another 1300 songs PLUS over 8000 old time radio programs. Favorites are Johnny B Good by Chuck Berry and At the Hop by Danny & The Juniors. I'm pretty tough on Name that Tune especially from 1955 to 1970, wanna try me lol ????

Woooooooooo Hooooooooooooo

John T
 
Bingo, GR.

I've built 409s.

Unlike most "big blocks" the 409 was a winder like the 327.

409 cubes, big ports and valves, huge cam and carburetion and a 3.5" stroke.

They would run you down.

Dean
 
Any body remember THE HOT ROD RACE, it was mentioned in The Hot Rod Lincoln, "You heard the story of the hot rod race where the Fords and Mercurys were setting the pace, that story is true I am here to say cause I was driving that model A"
steve
 
Wolf Creek Pass, "coming on down the other side..."

No, wait, that's a truck song.

Hot Rod Lincoln and 409 are a tie for me. Or if you like Jan and Dean, Dead's Man Curve and Little Old Lady from Pasadena.
 
I have a 409 Chevy in my 1939 John Deere L tractor.
The tractor is just a cart for the engine.
Hope to finish it by next year.
MikeS.
 
Little Old Lady From Pasedana.

ut she'll give you a length and she'll shut you down....

Unlike just about all of the other artists that recorded car songs in the era, Jan and Dean and the Beach Boys knew HP cars of the era and their car songs testified such.

You doubt? Listen to the words of Little Deuce Coupe.
 
Ray Wylie Hubbard does Cooler N Hell,great car verse in it. David Wilcox did something called,Rusty Old American Dream.Nice easy to listen to song of the big finned cars.Neil Young did Long May You Run.I think I read it was about his 57 Chevy.I've heard a song that I call,Hear That Mercury Roar,but I don't know who did it.I've never been able to find out.
 
"Radar Blues" and "Transfusion".

The first time I heard "Transfusion", a buddy and I had been on leave from the Corps and were driving across Missouri when the song came on the radio. By the time it was over, we were both laughing so hard we were parked on the shoulder just listening to it.
 
Hey, I can relate to you on that one.
This song was originally a "B" side to "Dancing in the Dark' and was only available (for the longest time) on a 45.
I managed to pick this song up on a mini-CD long before it was ever officially released by the record company on a complication CD. Found it while rummaging in a second-hand record store in the city of Dallas.
 
Didn?t see Radar Love on the list.

I've been drivin' all night, my hand's wet on the wheel
There's a voice in my head that drives my heel
My baby called, said she needs me here
It's half past four and I'm shifting gears
When she gets lonely and the longing gets too much.....

Great driving song.
 
"She was hotter than a two barreled pistol, she was the fastest thing around,
Long and lean, every man's dream, turned every head in town"

I don't remember the name of it, either, but he was referring to the gal instead of the car.
 
I don't think I saw the one by Johnny Cash one piece at a time always want a wednesday car.
 
Oh Maybelline why can't you be true? Ya done started back doin the things you used to do. I sometimes wonder if Maybelline was really a tractor. DP
 
I heard part of that song yesterday, when I got back in my car. I turned it up a little more. They will play ever song on their play list, at least three times a day, but once in a while they will toss one of these songs in.
SDE
 
Well she had fun, fun, fun . . .

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(quoted from post at 05:10:15 05/26/18)
Below is a link to the best version of Hot Rod Lincoln,
Hot Rod Lincoln
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This version sounds like he says "its got [b:78d17b71c2][u:78d17b71c2]12[/u:78d17b71c2][/b:78d17b71c2] cylinders and uses them all"
Whats he got under that hood?
 
She makes the Indy 500 look like the Roman chariot races....

Great song, James.
 
Great car song, Cannonball.

Unlike most recording artist, the Beach boys knew cars.

She's ported and relieved, and she's stroked and bored....

Who knows what relieved means these days?

Dean
 
No one has yet mentioned Rocket 88, so here it is.

This song is considered by some to be the very first rock and roll song.
Rocket 88
 
Jeffcat ...... that's hilarious, can you imagine a song like that coming out these days? Not sure kids would think it funny, a lot of kids don't see humor in a lot of stuff I used to think hilarious. Meanwhile, your photo is a Nash Metropolitan I think. I suspect the one in your video is a Nash Rambler, not sure.
 
Before I even clicked on it I was thinking "Hot Rod Lincoln". Lincoln made a 12 cylinder. The best Truckin' song is " Mama hated diesels so bad".
 
Great song, Sportster. I've not heard it before.

It conjures up memories of my childhood in the mid-late 50s when I laid awake in my bed at night with all of the windows open (no AC) listening to the tractor trailers gearing down for the pull up the nearby hill out of the Ohio River valley.

In the era, most of the tractors were still powered by gasoline engines, Waukesha, Hercules, White, Mack, GMC, Ford, etc. Regulations did not require mufflers, and few had one. Most of the engines probably made 150-180 HP. There were still lots of 500+ CI flathead tractors on the road.

Split shifting, double clutching, gear jamming, open exhausts, many tractors would be down to 15 MPH at the top of the hill. I remember it well.

Times have changed.

Dean
 
(quoted from post at 17:44:04 05/25/18) Bingo, GR.

I've built 409s.

Unlike most "big blocks" the 409 was a winder like the 327.

409 cubes, big ports and valves, huge cam and carburetion and a 3.5" stroke.

They would run you down.

Dean
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True,a 409 could really crank.However just a little too many REVS would result in bent pushrods.
 
Commander Codys Lookin At The World Through The Windshield was on the album with Mama Hated Diesel.All great songs.
 
You are correct. I just always thought of the song with his daughter Mary Ann driving her car. The video shows the correct car.
 
Oh yes, but when you watch the wide screen version of BEN HUR with Charlton Heston driving that four horse team. Cars just run around a track, that race is blood, guts, sweat, kickin but, whips, Greek things on the wheels, cheering crowds. You get the picture. Thing is he really was driving that team for almost all of the takes !!
 
I vote with you CW McCall had the best songs, after all his trucks have wheels, just a few more of 'em,
his song "classified" about buying the ol Chev pu has to be one of the best.........
 
(quoted from post at 09:14:25 05/26/18) Before I even clicked on it I was thinking "Hot Rod Lincoln". Lincoln made a 12 cylinder. The best Truckin' song is " Mama hated diesels so bad".
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Yes, Lincoln built a flathead V12 but from what I have read it would not have won any hot rod races. The Commander Cody version says its got 8 cylinders and uses them all. Might have been the big 337 flathead Lincoln V8 truck engine but more likely the newer "Y block" ohv.
 

George Romney took over after Mason died and was a proponent of compact cars. He kept the Metropolitan until the intro of the Rambler name. Too bad they did not include the Metropolitan under the new name. He did predict the ascendancy of smaller cars. Ask Mitt.

32.9 mpg @ 60 mph. I think.
 
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