# Car Related Music Groups **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Created:** [November 4, 2015, 7:15am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-related-music-groups/91630 "2015-11-04T07:15:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![meaneyedcatz](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/meaneyedcatz/32/692_2.png) [@meaneyedcatz](https://community.cartalk.com/u/meaneyedcatz)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2015, 7:15am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-related-music-groups/91630/1 "2015-11-04T07:15:00Z")
After The Same Mountain Bike posted about his town acquiring an REO I got to thinking. How many music group names are vehicle related? Right off the top I can think of REO SPEEDWAGON (obviously) TRAFFIC THE CARS BACHMAN TURNER OVERDRIVE (fred turner, randy bachman and a truck driving magazine named overdrive. Of which I always made it to the local kenworth dealer to obtain my copy) THE EDSELS WHAT CAN YOU ADD? ---
**Author:** ![George\_San\_Jose1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e5b9ba/32.png) [@George\_San\_Jose1](https://community.cartalk.com/u/George_San_Jose1)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2015, 7:42am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-related-music-groups/91630/2 "2015-11-04T07:42:31Z")
Big Drill Car, Dashboard Confessional, Death Cab for Cutie, Flying Lotus, Pantera ---
**Author:** ![meanjoe75fan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/meanjoe75fan/32/552_2.png) [@meanjoe75fan](https://community.cartalk.com/u/meanjoe75fan)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2015, 8:16am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-related-music-groups/91630/3 "2015-11-04T08:16:25Z")
Chevelles, Drive-By Truckers, Rocket 88 (Ian Stewart’s band). ON A RELATED NOTE: songs about cars! Little Red Corvette (Prince), Maybelline (Chuck Berry), Highway Star (Deep Purple), Brand New Car (Rolling Stones)…and many more! ---
**Author:** ![George\_San\_Jose1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e5b9ba/32.png) [@George\_San\_Jose1](https://community.cartalk.com/u/George_San_Jose1)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2015, 8:24am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-related-music-groups/91630/4 "2015-11-04T08:24:03Z")
Ok, reaching now. Susan Vega /Chevy Vega ---
**Author:** ![ok4450](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e9bcb4/32.png) [@ok4450](https://community.cartalk.com/u/ok4450)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2015, 8:28am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-related-music-groups/91630/5 "2015-11-04T08:28:33Z")
The Fabulous Thunderbirds, El Dorados, Tempest, and Fairlanes are a few and while not necessarily related to 4 wheels; Gaye Bykers on Acid. Truth be known, there’s probably very few car models around that haven’t had a band of some sort named after them. Most will remain relatively unknown. Since that got me thinking I decided to check. Sure enough. some band was scraping rock bottom and took the name Aztek… ---
**Author:** ![texases](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/texases/32/862_2.png) [@texases](https://community.cartalk.com/u/texases)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2015, 8:46am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-related-music-groups/91630/6 "2015-11-04T08:46:33Z")
Chubby Checker? ---
**Author:** ![bing](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/bing/32/4619_2.png) [@bing](https://community.cartalk.com/u/bing)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2015, 8:46am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-related-music-groups/91630/7 "2015-11-04T08:46:39Z")
Well The Beatles. Sounds the same anyway as the VW Beetle. Forgive me if I don’t hardly recognize any of those bands. ---
**Author:** ![common-sense-answer](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/common-sense-answer/32/716_2.png) [@common-sense-answer](https://community.cartalk.com/u/common-sense-answer)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2015, 8:56am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-related-music-groups/91630/8 "2015-11-04T08:56:26Z")
_ **Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels** _ (“Devil in a Blue Dress” ) (“C.C. Rider” 1966 ) _ **CSA** _ ---
**Author:** ![George\_San\_Jose1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e5b9ba/32.png) [@George\_San\_Jose1](https://community.cartalk.com/u/George_San_Jose1)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2015, 8:59am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-related-music-groups/91630/9 "2015-11-04T08:59:27Z")
Songs about cars? hmmm… maybe James Taylor’s “Traffic Jam”. Or didn’t Neil Young do one about an Econoline Van? My favorite vehicle related song – a motorcycle – is “Dead or Alive” by Bon Jovi “I’m a cowboy, on a steel horse I ride I’m wanted dead or alive Wanted dead or alive” ---
**Author:** ![ok4450](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e9bcb4/32.png) [@ok4450](https://community.cartalk.com/u/ok4450)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2015, 8:59am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-related-music-groups/91630/10 "2015-11-04T08:59:41Z")
The memory is very fuzzy but I think there was a band called The Roadrunners. Whether the name was because of the car or the bird I have no idea. ---
**Author:** ![pleasedodgevan2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ad7895/32.png) [@pleasedodgevan2](https://community.cartalk.com/u/pleasedodgevan2)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2015, 9:51am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-related-music-groups/91630/11 "2015-11-04T09:51:40Z")
Flash Cadillac and the Continental Kids. Who can forget a song called Radar Love? Golden Earring had another hit called Twilight Zone but it wasn’t about cars. ---
**Author:** ![Barkydog](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/barkydog/32/2470_2.png) [@Barkydog](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Barkydog)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2015, 5:59pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-related-music-groups/91630/12 "2015-11-04T17:59:35Z")
The doors? Nope. 4 door band, not car 😉 The band took its name from the title of Aldous Huxley’s book The Doors of Perception,[ ---
**Author:** ![anon86613489](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@anon86613489](https://community.cartalk.com/u/anon86613489)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2015, 7:12pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-related-music-groups/91630/13 "2015-11-04T19:12:27Z")
2 groups, a German and an Irish, both playing Irish folkmusic, both named Morris Minor. [http://www.marktplatz-osnabrueck.de/desktopdefault.aspx/tabid-4/79\_read-1546](http://www.marktplatz-osnabrueck.de/desktopdefault.aspx/tabid-4/79_read-1546) ---
**Author:** ![sgtrock21](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/sgtrock21/32/246_2.png) [@sgtrock21](https://community.cartalk.com/u/sgtrock21)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2015, 7:24pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-related-music-groups/91630/14 "2015-11-04T19:24:42Z")
Ronnie and the Daytonas. ---
**Author:** ![meanjoe75fan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/meanjoe75fan/32/552_2.png) [@meanjoe75fan](https://community.cartalk.com/u/meanjoe75fan)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2015, 7:41pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-related-music-groups/91630/15 "2015-11-04T19:41:32Z")
Heh, I seemed to recall an opening act somewhere that called themselves “Laidlaw.” ---
**Author:** ![sgtrock21](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/sgtrock21/32/246_2.png) [@sgtrock21](https://community.cartalk.com/u/sgtrock21)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2015, 7:47pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-related-music-groups/91630/16 "2015-11-04T19:47:03Z")
Don’t know how I forgot Booker T and the MGs. ---
**Author:** ![jtsanders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c2a13f/32.png) [@jtsanders](https://community.cartalk.com/u/jtsanders)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2015, 3:23am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-related-music-groups/91630/17 "2015-11-05T03:23:22Z")
Crosstown Traffic, Jimmi Hendrix ---
**Author:** ![George\_San\_Jose1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e5b9ba/32.png) [@George\_San\_Jose1](https://community.cartalk.com/u/George_San_Jose1)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2015, 6:35am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-related-music-groups/91630/18 "2015-11-05T06:35:44Z")
Thanks @sgtrock21 … I was having that thought rolling around inside my mostly empty brain during this thread, that there was a band with “MG” in the name, but I couldn’t think what it was. It’s a troubling feeling to think you remember something, but can’t remember what that something is. Now my brain can return to being happy and completely empty … lol … ---
**Author:** ![Joe-Guy](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/joe-guy/32/124_2.png) [@Joe-Guy](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Joe-Guy)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2015, 6:38am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-related-music-groups/91630/19 "2015-11-05T06:38:13Z")
Van Morrison…? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Barkydog](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/barkydog/32/2470_2.png) [@Barkydog](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Barkydog)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2015, 7:07am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-related-music-groups/91630/20 "2015-11-05T07:07:48Z")
Van? ok, wasn’t there a group called the chevelles? Now if only there was a group called the Stanley Steamers. Anyone remember NRPS, new riders of the purple sage? 15 days under the hood a great car song, its original lineup included several members of the Grateful Dead. Sorry for the lame video but the song was the only version of the original I can find now. [Next page](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-related-music-groups/91630.md?page=2)