I don't normally like to include songs that are basically talk-singing (otherwise, this blog would be nothing but Cake songs), but am making an exception for this one for four reasons:
- It is about a cool car: a Model A with a Lincoln-Zephyr V12 engine.
- It is a song written in response to another song (Arkie Shibley's 1951 hit "Hot Rod Race," in which a Ford and a Mercury were smoked by a "kid in a hopped-up Model A.")
- The song mentions "going up the Grapevine Hill," which is the way we would drive from home to Los Angeles when I lived in Bakersfield (and is still the route when I visit).
- The original 1955 version by Charlie Ryan is less famous than a later 1971 version by Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen.
