![]() ![]() He was playing some old 50’s and 60’s car songs for my son when he played Hot Rod Lincoln. I bought the family to my dads for the weekend, and one of dad’s hobbies is music (playing, listening and history). I was literally having this conversation with my dad and my son. Given that the Lincoln V12 had a quite poor reputation, especially for overheating and subsequent damage, the ending makes even more sense: Here’s a picture of it in 1994, when the headlights were still in their original position. The Lincoln badge on the grille and a few other details are different, but it looks credible otherwise. It turns out that his car still exists, restored and modified somewhat.Īnd the rest of the car. Update: CC Commenter Rocko left this image, of Charlie Ryan and his Hot Rod Lincoln. In the song, the race takes place on the Grapevine, near Tejon Pass, in Southern California. His song was inspired by an actual race against a friend’s Cadillac sedan near Lewiston, Idaho, up the Spiral Highway to the top of Lewiston Hill. And it had the Lincoln’s flathead V12, with a four barrel carb. Ryan based the car on his own hot rod, which really was a hot rod Lincoln, which he built it from a 1948 Lincoln chassis shortened two feet, and fitted with a Model A body. That Model A Vitimix makes it look like a pup. It’s got a Lincoln motor and it’s really souped up. And the lyrics are different in one key word: The Hot Rod Lincoln song was originally written and released in 1955 by singer-songwriter Charley Ryan as a response Shibley’s Hot Rod Race, and tells the story from the vantage point of the Model A driver. When it flew by us, I turned the other way.įor it was a kid, in a hopped-up Model A. Arkie went on to make four follow-up songs. It was a response to Arkie Shibley’s 1951 hit, “Hot Rod Race”, which tells about an impromptu race between the singer’s Mercury and a Ford. The song was originally written and released way back in 1955 by singer-songwriter Charley Ryan. The song really was about a hot rod Lincoln, but it wasn’t a V8, as Commander Cody asserts. Who ever used a Lincoln V8 engine in a Model A hot rod? I had never heard of such a thing. There’s a slew of video mixes to that song, but the one above was the best of the ones I perused on Youtube, as it at least shows some creativity in its selection of old footage.īut I was frankly a bit confused by the title name and lyrics back in ’71. Needless to say, I fell hard for Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen’s “Hot Rod Lincoln” when it was released in 1971.
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