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  • JoeyM

    Jan. 9, 2012 6:15 a.m. JoeyM SuperDork

    Cake references cars fairly often
    Alpha Beta Parking Lot
    Easy to Crash
    Long Line Of Cars
    Race Car Ya-Yas
    Satan Is My Motor
    Stick Shifts and Safety Belts (...a song that would do any rockabilly proud)
    Wheels

  • trucke

    Jan. 9, 2012 10:48 a.m. trucke New Reader

    Highway Star - Deep Purple http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jh0iihjANPc

    Nobody gonna take my car I'm gonna race it to the ground

    Nobody gonna beat my car I'm gonna break the speed of sound

    Oooh it's a killing machine Ait's got everything Like a driving power big fat tyres and everything

  • Karl La Follette

    Jan. 9, 2012 11:15 a.m. Karl La Follette Dork

    i need love Vanilla Fudge

  • dlmater

    Jan. 9, 2012 12:39 p.m. dlmater Reader

    A couple of mine from the 80's:

    Sammy Hagar - "I Can't Drive 55"

    Linked for those who weren't around when MTV only showed music videos.

    "I Can't Drive 55"

    Phil Collins - "Something In The Air Tonight"

    Only because of the original Miami Vice TV show and the sequences filmed with the Daytona (replica I have always assumed, but cool nonetheless).

    Miami Vice Clip

  • Jan. 9, 2012 12:52 p.m. chuckles Reader

    "Souped Up Ford." Rory Gallagher. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsgtxIWZndI

    Bottleneck heaven.

  • Karl La Follette

    Jan. 12, 2012 4:44 p.m. Karl La Follette Dork

    Achilles last stand Led zeppelin

  • Javelin

    Jan. 12, 2012 5:03 p.m. Javelin SuperDork

    curtis73 wrote:

    Pretty much anything by George Thorogood.
    Barracuda by Heart
    Hot for Teacher by VH. The beginning of that song sounds like a lumpy-idling dragster

    Wow, that list sums it up perfect! Add in Metallica's Fuel and I'm done.

  • mthomson22

    Jan. 13, 2012 8:26 a.m. mthomson22 Reader

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2KPsBKvi8I&ob=av2e

    'Start the Car' by Jude Cole. This one should be on every car guy's driving playlist.

  • wheelsmithy

    Jan. 14, 2012 12:02 p.m. wheelsmithy Reader

    5.0 Ford-The Reverend Horton Heat I'm in love with my car-Mike Ness

  • DaewooOfDeath

    Jan. 14, 2012 12:13 p.m. DaewooOfDeath HalfDork

    Going the Distance by Cake

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__PU5CVSegg [/thread]

  • danvan

    Jan. 14, 2012 9:11 p.m. danvan None

    this is one that has everything i love in it ray wylie hubbard cooler n hell dont know how to do a link but if you look for it on utube its there

  • ThePhranc

    Jan. 14, 2012 9:51 p.m. ThePhranc Reader

    Hot rodders lament by Deke Dickerson.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ffEfkuFIKM

    Last ride by the Chop Tops

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqDyN_P0dwE

    Triple deuces by the Chop Tops

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzPIuC1oxeQ&feature=related

  • ls1fiero

    Jan. 16, 2012 8:25 p.m. ls1fiero Reader

    In reply to wheelsmithy: Sounds like Hot Rod Lincoln in double time. I like.

  • gamby

    Jan. 16, 2012 11:53 p.m. gamby SuperDork

    Catherine Wheel--Gasoline (their singer designed the Singer 911) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmuQKVRH2Bk

    (not as good of a song, but) Catherine Wheel-- Car http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-1yiF0oIoQ

    ...and of course ZZ Top--I'm Bad, I'm Nationwide http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLQnRFKHZR8

    "I was movin' down the road in my V8 Ford, I had a shine on my boots, I had my sideburns lowered"

    That is one of the most PIMP lines ever laid down on tape. (hell, the whole song is str8 pimpin'!!!)

  • Jan. 17, 2012 12:02 a.m. theenico New Reader

    Silver Machine by Hawkwind.

    Pretty much anything by Cactus.

    Monster Magnet has a ton of good "in the car" music.

    Fu Manchu has a ton of So-Cal car oriented tunes. Their CD covers are generally pretty cool also.

  • Brett_Murphy

    Jan. 17, 2012 9:34 a.m. Brett_Murphy Dork

    I'll add one more Cramps song, it is the one I play before I do any sort of competitive driving with "cross" in the name:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhMRg40Z5gA

    Lots of stuff by Reverend Horton Heat:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOmwBB67VDI

  • hobiercr

    Jan. 20, 2012 2:53 p.m. hobiercr HalfDork

    Cue Rockpile

    Crawling from the Wreckage

  • problemaddict

    Jan. 21, 2012 10:52 p.m. problemaddict Reader

    Daddy's Cup - The Drive By Truckers

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McW2NwWtR9E

    Every Saturday, he'd take me out to the garage

    He'd take an empty bucket and fill it full of engine parts

    He's sit me down and pour em out in front of me on the floor

    I'd have to tell him what each one was and what each one was for

    We'd jump into the car and go down to the race that night

    He'd tell me what each driver was doing wrong and what each one did right

    He could always pick the winner before they ever took a curve

    3 might have the car but 43 has got the nerve

  • danvan

    Jan. 21, 2012 11:05 p.m. danvan New Reader

    the drive by truckers rock

  • wheels777

    Jan. 21, 2012 11:10 p.m. wheels777 Dork

    Molley Hatchet - Double Trouble Live.....pick any song.

  • 4cylndrfury

    Jan. 22, 2012 2:40 a.m. 4cylndrfury SuperDork

    Didnt read the whole thread, sorry if I repost...

    Start Me Up - Rolling Stones.
    Back In Black - AC/DC.
    On the Road Again - Canned Heat.
    Spirit in the Sky - Norman Greenbaum Experience.
    Roadhouse Blues - The Doors.
    Get Back - The Beatles.
    Fortunate Son - Creedence Clearwater Revival.
    Hes Going the Distance - Cake.
    How You Like Me Now - The Heavy.

    Ive got more, but its late, and i haz a drinking

  • Ty_Lo95

    Jan. 22, 2012 11:40 a.m. Ty_Lo95 New Reader

    Another vote for Red Barchetta.
    The other two I like to cruise to aren't really car songs... Solsbury Hill-Peter Gabriel Promises, Promises-Incubus Great songs for a summer cruise.

  • Jan. 22, 2012 12:08 p.m. lewbud HalfDork

    For danvan:

    Cooler 'n Hell

    For me: Another Texas legend Big Daddy Don Walser's Hot Rod Mercury

    Hot Rod Mercury

  • chandlerGTi

    Jan. 22, 2012 1:40 p.m. chandlerGTi Reader

    JoeyM wrote:

    Cake references cars fairly often
    Alpha Beta Parking Lot
    Easy to Crash
    Long Line Of Cars
    Race Car Ya-Yas
    Satan Is My Motor
    Stick Shifts and Safety Belts (...a song that would do any rockabilly proud)
    Wheels

    I will second your list. Cake is awesome.

  • chandlerGTi

    Jan. 22, 2012 1:44 p.m. chandlerGTi Reader

    theenico wrote:

    Fu Manchu has a ton of So-Cal car oriented tunes. Their CD covers are generally pretty cool also.

    I have California crossing in the basement shop playing now. There is another band called Slant Six that is OK for driving although obviously recorded in a garage.

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