Artist	Song
Sandy Courage	Hot Rod Rumble
The Mar-Keys	Hot Rod
Straight 8s	Hot Rod Queen
Charlie Ryan	Hot Rod Lincoln
P.J. & Artie	Squad Car
Roy Budd	The Girl In The Car
Man or Astro-man?	Nitrous Burn Out
The El Caminos	Death Race
The Exports	Car Hop
Ronny & The Daytonas	Bucket T
The Delicates	Black & White Thunderbird
The Beach Boys	Little Deuce Coupe
Jan & Dean	Drag City
The Regents	Hey Little Cobra
Donovan	Car Car
The Cat Empire	The Car Song
Gene Vincent And His Blue Caps	Why Don't You People Learn To Drive?
Krontjong Devils	Black Boots and Bikes
Mink DeVille	Cadillac Walk
The Cramps	Sado County Auto Show
Dean Martin	King Of The Road
Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers	Roadrunner
Jr. Walker & The All Stars	(I'm A) Road Runner
The Gun Club	Ghost On The Highway
Split Lip Rayfield	Kiss of Death
Radio Sweethearts	Red Cadillac and a Black Moustache
John Hiatt	Thunderbird
Slaid Cleaves	Last Of The V8s

Comment:

In 50 years time, people will probably look back and think our cars wasted an inordinate amount of gas... but they gave us some decent songs. I'm hoping that in 2050, you'll be driving late at night, one of these will come onto an oldies station, and you'll suddenly see, out of nowhere, the ghost of a hopped up Chevvy '57 with a flamejob roaring past. Huge engine coming out of the bonnet, and twin exhausts.

Acknowledgements - to Ace records, from whose "Crazy 'bout an automobile" I took a load of these, and Johnc, from whose Flickr account I stole the picture.

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