# Car Brands Models in Songs **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 19, 2007, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/car-brands-models-in-songs/412348 "2007-07-19T03:26:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2007, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/car-brands-models-in-songs/412348/21 "2007-07-19T05:23:22Z")
“jump like a Willys in four wheel drive” _Sugar Magnolia_ - Grateful Dead ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2007, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/car-brands-models-in-songs/412348/22 "2007-07-19T05:51:45Z")
Chuck Berry songs – Jaguar And Thunderbird, You Can’t Catch Me (Coupe Deville), Dear Dad (Ford), No Money Down (Cadillac, Ford). B52s – Love Shack (Chrysler) Blondie – Rapture (Cadillacs, Subarus, Lincolns, Mercurys) Billy Joel – We Didn’t Start the Fire (Edsel) Charlie Daniels – Uneasy Rider (Chevrolet) Eagles – Take it easy (Ford), Hotel California (Mercedes Benz) Note: Janis Joplin’s Mecedes Benz also mentions Porches ---
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Susan Werner’s “Big Car”: _So you can keep your stupid SUV Give me a big old ugly LTD A Lincoln Town Car Or a Grand Marquee And I’m a woman driving destiny around_ ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2007, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/car-brands-models-in-songs/412348/24 "2007-07-19T06:45:38Z")
Slick Black Cadillac - Quiet Riot Look At That Cadillac - Stray Cats ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2007, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/car-brands-models-in-songs/412348/25 "2007-07-19T10:52:15Z")
The Wreck Of The Barbie Ferrari, John Hiatt Buick McKane, T-Rex White Valiant, The Muttonbirds Blue Belmonts, Blam Blam Blam “I drive a Maserati GT/With snakeskin unholstery”: I Ain’t Got You, The Yardbirds “I drive a Rolls Royce/'Cos it’s good for my voice”: Children Of The Revolution, T-Rex “I got a Ford Cortina that just won’t run without fuel - fill 'er up, Jacko”: The Clash, London’s Burning ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2007, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/car-brands-models-in-songs/412348/26 "2007-07-19T11:13:53Z")
[QUOTE=cornflakes] Janis originally sang “Mercedes Benz”? 😉 How about “Hot Rod Lincoln” (Charlie Ryan) [/QUOTE] “Hot Rod Lincoln” was by Commander Cody, a.k.a. George Frayne, and the Lost Planet Airmen. Joe Walsh - Life’s Been Good “My Maserati does 185. I lost my license, now I don’t drive.” D’oh! - OK, Ryan originally recorded it, but the version by Commander Cody is more well-known. ---
**Author:** ![Ichbin\_Dubist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/51bf81/32.png) [@Ichbin\_Dubist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ichbin_Dubist)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2007, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/car-brands-models-in-songs/412348/27 "2007-07-19T12:11:17Z")
[QUOTE=Scissorjack] “I got a Ford Cortina that just won’t run without fuel - fill 'er up, Jacko”: The Clash, London’s Burning [/QUOTE] Actually, “Janie Jones.” I was listening the the first Clash album on the way into work this morning. Really loud. Just one more reason I could never carpool. Ben Vaughan Combo, “Motor Vehicle”: “I got a 1965 Rambler American / Baby aren’t you impressed? / Sure I could drive a Datsun 280-Z / But I’m not like all the rest” Sir Mix-a-Lot, “My Hooptie”: “My hooptie rollin’, tailpipe draggin’ / Heat don’t work an’ my girl keeps naggin’ / Six-nine Buick, deuce keeps rollin’ / One hubcap 'cause three got stolen …” Public Enemy, “You’re Gonna Get Yours”: “Suckers to the side / I know you hate / My 98 …” ---
**Author:** ![Ichbin\_Dubist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/51bf81/32.png) [@Ichbin\_Dubist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ichbin_Dubist)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2007, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/car-brands-models-in-songs/412348/28 "2007-07-19T12:23:59Z")
Sammy Johns, “Chevy Van”: “She woke up and took me by the hand / She’s gonna love me in my Chevy van / And that’s all right with me” Youc an almost see the airbrushed desert scene painted on the side, can’t you? Ween, “El Camino” Lloyd Cole & The Commotions, “2cv” (mentions the Citroën 2cv) The Gourds, “Escalade” ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2007, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/car-brands-models-in-songs/412348/29 "2007-07-19T13:05:22Z")
[QUOTE=cochrane] “Hot Rod Lincoln” was by Commander Cody, a.k.a. George Frayne, and the Lost Planet Airmen. D’oh! - OK, Ryan originally recorded it, but the version by Commander Cody is more well-known. [/QUOTE] Pat Travers has a version that’s quite tolerable as well. ---
**Author:** ![neutron\_star](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/51bf81/32.png) [@neutron\_star](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neutron_star)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2007, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/car-brands-models-in-songs/412348/30 "2007-07-19T13:20:22Z")
[QUOTE=silenus] All by Bruce Springsteen: Adam Raised A Cain (Cadillac) Betty Jean (GTO) Cadillac Ranch Darlington County (Ford) Ramrod (Ford) Racing In the Street (Chevy) Street Queen (Chevy) [/QUOTE] Not to mention the “big old Buick” in _My Hometown_ or “the barefoot girl sitting on the hood of a Dodge” in _Jungleland._… or “the skeleton frames of burned-out Chevrolets” in _Thunder Road._ Come to think of it, is there **any** Springsteen song that doesn’t mention cars or driving in some capacity? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Chez\_Guevara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/aeb1de/32.png) [@Chez\_Guevara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chez_Guevara)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2007, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/car-brands-models-in-songs/412348/31 "2007-07-19T13:47:46Z")
[QUOTE=Scissorjack] “I got a Ford Cortina that just won’t run without fuel - fill 'er up, Jacko”: The Clash, London’s Burning [/QUOTE] [Here is](http://www.lyricsondemand.com/i/ianduryandtheblockheadslyrics/billericaydickielyrics.html) another honourable mention for this classic car in an equally classic lyric by Ian Dury: _…had a love affair with Nina in the back of my Cortina a seasoned up hyena could not have been more obscener she took me to the cleaners and other misdemeanours but I got right up between her rum and her Ribena…_ ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2007, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/car-brands-models-in-songs/412348/32 "2007-07-19T13:54:38Z")
I realize there’s no way most people here have heard these, but hey, a couple from Spain: _Qué difícil es hacer el amor en un Simca 1000_, by Los Inhumanos (Making Love in a Simca 1000 is Real Complicated). The title is probably true, too: those things are like boxy cousins of the VW Bug and as the lyrics say you can’t push back the backs of the seats. _Cadillac Solitario_, by Loquillo y los Trogoditas. One of their signature songs, “Lonely Cadillac” aka “L.A.” has been a fixture in Spanish radio for over _gasp_ 20 years now. ---
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**Skee-Lo** - “I Wish” _I wish I was little bit taller, I wish I was a baller I wish I had a girl who looked good I would call her I wish I had a rabbit in a hat with a bat and a **'64 Impala** _ **Barenaked Ladies** - “If I had $1,000,000” \*If I had a 1,000,000 (If I had a 1,000,000) I’d but you a \*\*K-car \*\* ( a nice \*\*Reliant \*\* automobile) If I had a 1,000,000, I’d buy you love \* ---
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The Siegel-Schwall Band’s “On The Road” sings about the Geo Metro. Marc Cohn’s followup to “Walking in Memphis” was “Silver Thunderbird.” ---
**Author:** ![neutron\_star](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/51bf81/32.png) [@neutron\_star](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neutron_star)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2007, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/car-brands-models-in-songs/412348/35 "2007-07-19T14:19:55Z")
[QUOTE=Chez Guevara] [Here is](http://www.lyricsondemand.com/i/ianduryandtheblockheadslyrics/billericaydickielyrics.html) another honourable mention for this classic car [/QUOTE] And another: Elton John - _Made in England_ - “I was made in England like a blue Cortina.” Actually, I think that’s the only post-1984-or-so Elton John song that I like at all. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2007, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/car-brands-models-in-songs/412348/36 "2007-07-19T14:26:43Z")
_Keep Risin’ to the Top_ Doug E. Fresh and the Get Fresh Crew “I’m in a **Cherokee** , Chill Will in a **Audi** ” Springsteen: _Cadillac Ranch_ as mentioned: “James Dean in that **Mercury `49** … Even Burt Reynolds in that black **Trans Am** ” _Racing in the Street_’s Chevy as mentioned, more specifically: " '69 Chevy with a 396 Fuelie heads and a Hurst on the floor" _Pink Cadillac_ as mentioned But my love is bigger than a **Honda** It’s bigger than a **Subaru** ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2007, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/car-brands-models-in-songs/412348/37 "2007-07-19T14:34:15Z")
'41 Ford in [“Something Else”](http://www.nomorelyrics.net/song/174104.html) ---
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There’s [**Studebaker**](http://warrenzevon.com/tabs/studebaker.htm) by Warren Zevon. And this lovely bit in “I Been to Georgia on a Fast Train” by Billy Joe Shaver: “I love the wiggle in your walkin’ Your big city talkin’ And your brand new shiny Plymouth ragtop car.” ---
**Author:** ![neutron\_star](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/51bf81/32.png) [@neutron\_star](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neutron_star)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2007, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/car-brands-models-in-songs/412348/39 "2007-07-19T14:40:14Z")
[QUOTE=neutron star] And another: [/QUOTE] Oh hell, why not one more? 🙂 [Saw Doctors - Red Cortina](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NL_rI__ylBU) God, I love the Saw Doctors. ---
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B-52’s: She came from Planet Claire I knew she came from there She drove a Plymouth Satellite Faster than the speed of light [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/car-brands-models-in-songs/412348.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/car-brands-models-in-songs/412348.md?page=3)