# Favorite car song **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Created:** [March 31, 2025, 6:21am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/favorite-car-song/199694 "2025-03-31T06:21:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**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:** [March 31, 2025, 6:21am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/favorite-car-song/199694/1 "2025-03-31T06:21:42Z")
NRPS 15 days under the hood. Just for fun what is yours? [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-Tzhonhkd4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-Tzhonhkd4) ---
**Author:** ![davesmopar](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/davesmopar/32/41750_2.png) [@davesmopar](https://community.cartalk.com/u/davesmopar)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2025, 12:21pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/favorite-car-song/199694/2 "2025-03-31T12:21:45Z")
One of my all time favorites, I can’t drive 55 by Sammy Hagar… [![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/original/3X/9/9/99e62e83392707406a6123ddd3e7ce7cb7e9234b.jpeg "Sammy Hagar - I Can't Drive 55") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvV3nn_de2k) Another favorite… This one is more for the very heavy metal minded people like @cigroller and myself… lol Warning, this is NOT your 50’s music… 🤘 [![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/original/3X/e/c/ec5b56248a81197c370b746727bcdda248f1fec2.jpeg "Rob Zombie - Dragula") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqQuihD0hoI) ---
**Author:** ![VOLVO-V70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/8e8cbc/32.png) [@VOLVO-V70](https://community.cartalk.com/u/VOLVO-V70)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2025, 2:09pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/favorite-car-song/199694/3 "2025-03-31T14:09:24Z")
OK, thanks to Mr. Google I now know that NRPS stands for ( New Riders of the Purple Sage ) which is a band I have never heard of . ---
**Author:** ![Purebred](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/purebred/32/46796_2.png) [@Purebred](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Purebred)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2025, 2:16pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/favorite-car-song/199694/4 "2025-03-31T14:16:38Z")
I thought NRPS was a typo of NPR😀 ---
**Author:** ![Purebred](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/purebred/32/46796_2.png) [@Purebred](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Purebred)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2025, 2:25pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/favorite-car-song/199694/5 "2025-03-31T14:25:18Z")
Too many car songs to choose from, even Tim Allen’s Tim Taylor character had problems. [![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/original/3X/0/c/0c34a30fb304eecf90042c4eb5e6e66378772c39.jpeg "Home Improvement: Beach Boys Part 1") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGGES26QNK4) ---
**Author:** ![jtsanders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c2a13f/32.png) [@jtsanders](https://community.cartalk.com/u/jtsanders)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2025, 2:33pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/favorite-car-song/199694/6 "2025-03-31T14:33:46Z")
Satellite by Guster. @VOLVO-V70 is obviously too young to remember NRPS, popular in the 1970s. ---
**Author:** ![VDCdriver](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/vdcdriver/32/30_2.png) [@VDCdriver](https://community.cartalk.com/u/VDCdriver)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2025, 3:08pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/favorite-car-song/199694/7 "2025-03-31T15:08:30Z")
Many years ago, my favorite was this ditty by _Commander Cody and his Lost Planet Airmen:_ [![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/original/3X/8/b/8b5bec21541dde1cb3df553847c8eac19cf02280.jpeg "Hot Rod Lincoln - Commander Cody - 432Hz HD (lyrics in description)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIoxlShsE4o) ---
**Author:** ![Purebred](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/purebred/32/46796_2.png) [@Purebred](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Purebred)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2025, 3:23pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/favorite-car-song/199694/8 "2025-03-31T15:23:56Z")
Which was a cover of the one hit wonder from Charlie Ryan [![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/original/3X/7/7/7729d1c7c83ced641dcb9b3d1467976c04d2cfc9.jpeg "Charlie Ryan And The Timberline Riders ‎- Hot Rod Lincoln") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sN1MhKGL3ZM) 12 Cylinder Lincoln in a Model A Ford! ![IMG_2873](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/original/3X/8/7/87d6cc09218d6842435189763caefd7dc63c9b87.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Mustangman](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/mustangman/32/44130_2.png) [@Mustangman](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Mustangman)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2025, 3:24pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/favorite-car-song/199694/9 "2025-03-31T15:24:44Z")
I will answer it like an engineer… It depends! Kenny Loggins Danger Zone when it is time for track. I Can’t Drive 55 is also a good companion. Steve Winwood’s version of Can’t Find My Way Home when settling back for a long ride. Kashmir by Led Zepplin after a coffee stop on a long drive. ---
**Author:** ![Purebred](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/purebred/32/46796_2.png) [@Purebred](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Purebred)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2025, 3:44pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/favorite-car-song/199694/10 "2025-03-31T15:44:36Z")
Suzuki had a radio advertisement in 1966 that was so popular rock stations got requests to play it. Can not find a copy. How about a Moped Song? Though illustrators used a Lambretta type scooter [![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/original/3X/5/0/50c6f82acd8f679792555ff271d9ad00b77d9546.jpeg "Cow Patti Tribute to Jim Stafford") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUjolMiw_hg) ---
**Author:** ![VDCdriver](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/vdcdriver/32/30_2.png) [@VDCdriver](https://community.cartalk.com/u/VDCdriver)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2025, 3:48pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/favorite-car-song/199694/11 "2025-03-31T15:48:01Z")
A constant complaint from owners of Lincolns with the V-12 was that they overheated and/or suffered from vapor lock very often. I assume that the hotrodder(s) who souped them up installed a bigger radiator or a higher-capacity water pump. ---
**Author:** ![asemaster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@asemaster](https://community.cartalk.com/u/asemaster)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2025, 4:23pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/favorite-car-song/199694/12 "2025-03-31T16:23:10Z")
No Particular Place to Go [![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/original/3X/e/c/ecefe236bf661171866648fd310fc3ebf7bee59e.jpeg "No Particular Place To Go") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bhx96Nt5hyQ) As an aside, my high schooler son came home from work Sat night around 10:00 just long enough to change clothes and go out again. He said a couple of guys were going to pick him up and they were just going to drive around for a while. I told him there was a name for that. He said “Really?” I said “Yeah, it’s called cruising.” ---
**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:** [March 31, 2025, 4:24pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/favorite-car-song/199694/13 "2025-03-31T16:24:29Z")
It would be nice to have the lyrics included on some of these. Now I was just a little tike but you could understand when Dina shore sang see the USA in your Chevrolet. At least I think that was her name. ---
**Author:** ![VDCdriver](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/vdcdriver/32/30_2.png) [@VDCdriver](https://community.cartalk.com/u/VDCdriver)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2025, 4:47pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/favorite-car-song/199694/14 "2025-03-31T16:47:19Z")
There was an “h” at the end of her first name, and if you skip to about 1:10, you can hear her singing that song. [![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/original/3X/a/b/abdd00ea5f554124220ab5d46ee98a6234e3c032.jpeg "Dinah Shore "See the USA in your Chevrolet" - 1953") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boertpylK0M) ---
**Author:** ![VDCdriver](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/vdcdriver/32/30_2.png) [@VDCdriver](https://community.cartalk.com/u/VDCdriver)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2025, 4:50pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/favorite-car-song/199694/15 "2025-03-31T16:50:34Z")
If we’re going to talk about old car commercial songs, my favorite was the one that DeSoto used in the mid-late '50s. I used to hear it each week while watching _You Bet Your Life_, with Groucho Marx. [![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/original/3X/b/a/baaf3d1fbfc63b6b167d21a38953d80c511a1cdc.jpeg "1956 DeSoto - Delightful, De Lovely!") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoOw0Gtg1kM) ---
**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:** [March 31, 2025, 5:31pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/favorite-car-song/199694/16 "2025-03-31T17:31:54Z")
Heh heh. 1953 revisited. We had a ford v8 though and it run circles around a Chevy. As I remember ar five years old. ---
**Author:** ![ledhed75](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f6c823/32.png) [@ledhed75](https://community.cartalk.com/u/ledhed75)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2025, 7:52pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/favorite-car-song/199694/17 "2025-03-31T19:52:47Z")
“Highway Star” by Deep Purple. “Knock 'Em Dead Kid” by Motley Crue. ---
**Author:** ![Purebred](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/purebred/32/46796_2.png) [@Purebred](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Purebred)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2025, 9:03pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/favorite-car-song/199694/18 "2025-03-31T21:03:13Z")
Made me look it up! 51-55 was the Dinah Shore Show, 15 minutes. In 56 became the Dinah Shore Chevy Show and longer time slot. One show Pat Boone joined her singing the Chevy advertisement jingle. ---
**Author:** ![Purebred](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/purebred/32/46796_2.png) [@Purebred](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Purebred)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2025, 9:05pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/favorite-car-song/199694/19 "2025-03-31T21:05:09Z")
I follow a Flathead group (all flatheads) overheating still seems to plague some Ford flatheads. ---
**Author:** ![pleasedodgevan2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ad7895/32.png) [@pleasedodgevan2](https://community.cartalk.com/u/pleasedodgevan2)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2025, 10:08pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/favorite-car-song/199694/20 "2025-03-31T22:08:32Z")
Take it to the Limit is good. [Next page](https://community.cartalk.com/t/favorite-car-song/199694.md?page=2)