What are your favorite "car songs"?
I don't mean songs you especially like to listen to while driving, I mean songs about cars.

My favorites, in no particular order are:
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Little Deuce Coupe

Mustang Sally

Paradise by the Dashboard lights (I know- it's a bit of a reach to class it as a "car song", but I always picture a '69 Impala SS as the "scene of the crime")

Hot Rod Lincoln(of course)

GTO

Last Kiss

Riding With Private Malone

and Alan Jackson's "Drive"

I agree with Last Kiss..but only Pearl Jam's version.

It doesn't get any better than "Take The Highway" by the Marshall Tucker Band....

"Dead Man's Curve"

"Little Old Lady From Pasadena"

"Fun, Fun, Fun"

Wholehearted agreement there, JR- I just stopped listing before I left no titles unposted

Oh, and I should have mentioned the greatest tear-jerker of all time, another of my favorites

"Tell Laura I Love Her"

Oh here's another couple I remembered:

Tracy Chapman, "Fast car"

and

The Cars, "Drive"

OK, they're not exactly about cars, but do have driving themes..sort of

God, they're depressing, but still good.

The Tracy Chapman song is so bittersweet, so sad, it is difficult to listen to. Plans that will never come true.

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The Tracy Chapman song is so bittersweet, so sad, it is difficult to listen to.

Yes it is JR, and most of her songs are very poignant. "The Promise" is one of my favourites by Chapman, from her fourth cd. She has a beautiful voice, but so melancholy.

Back to car songs, we have to include Tom Cochrane's, "Life is a Highway" Canadian, eh

"Drive my Car"...........The Beatles
"Trans Am"..........Sammy Hagar
"Red Barchetta"............Rush
"One Piece at a Time"..........Johnny Cash
"Pink Cadillac".........Bruce Springsteen

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"One Piece at a Time"..........Johnny Cash

I cannot believe I did not think of that one! I love that song!

For MrsS -

This is the original Hot Rod Lincoln by Charlie Ryan & the Timberline Riders.

Thanks, Darlin'... that's actually the version I learned as a kid, I was probably 10 before I heard Commander Cody do it.

Bad Motor Scooter -- Montrose

"I Can't Drive 55" by Hagar another one that'll cause you to put the pedal to the metal

Some of my favorite “driving” songs that have something to do with cars, or the road are:

Hot Dogs and Hamburgers ~ John Mellencamp

Little Red Corvette ~ Prince

Ventura Highway ~ America

Fun, Fun, Fun ~ The Beach Boys

Running on Empty ~ Jackson Browne

Flirtin’ With Disaster ~ Molly Hatchet

Charlie Ryan is from my neck of the woods, Spokane, and supposedly his inspiration for "Hot Rod Lincoln" was a race he was involved in going up the Old Lewiston Grade going up out of Lewiston, Idaho. That YouTube video doesn't really do justice to the lovely little hill, but you get a vague idea of it. I can't imagine ever going up that thing fast enough to be involved in anything that could be remotely called a race. Several miles of nothing but hairpin turns. That Hot Rod Lincoln must really have been souped up! Most normal people don't go up that thing at much more that 25 mph at the top speed. I've been up and down it numerous times.


If you have 6 1/2 minutes to spare, here's a view of someone actually riding up the hill on a motorcycle.

And if you REALLY don't have a life, , here's the same grade going downhill.

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"Rev on the Red Line"...........Foreigner

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Originally posted by Jelp02:

If you have 6 1/2 minutes to spare, here's a view of someone actually riding up the hill on a motorcycle.

And if you REALLY don't have a life, , here's the same grade going downhill.

Thanks for sharing those Jelp, but I couldn't watch them all the way through, they made me feel travel sick ! We don't have any hills like that here.

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Originally posted by dance girl:


Thanks for sharing those Jelp, but I couldn't watch them all the way through, they made me feel travel sick ! We don't have any hills like that here.

Then I guess it's out of the question to expect you to come out this way just so you can drive up and down the hill????