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Mon Jun 22, 2020 10:02 am

borne to run, highway star, silver blue&gold, in my car, red barchetta,little red corvette,atomic punk,and many many many others. hell I can barley remember our kids names.

Mon Jun 22, 2020 10:55 am

Can't believe no one has posted Thousand Dollar Car.

Mon Jun 22, 2020 12:16 pm

https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=...mp;start=0

https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=344258&highlight=car+songs

Tue Jun 23, 2020 8:20 pm

I can't associate this with any particular car. But it's a staple in all of my cars with a CD, thumb-drive or programmable tuner. I just have to REALLY keep an eye on the speedometer!

Wed Jun 24, 2020 1:09 pm

Highway Star is always a good listen (actually, all of Machine Head is) but it's hard to hear in my 1960 356 Roadster with the top down over 30 MPH. Something about wind noise. 8) And I have an Alpine unit. A cassette deck my dad put in ages ago (he was the car's original owner) with an Ipod adapter.

Wed Jun 24, 2020 5:49 pm

Grapefruit-Juicy Fruit by Jimmy Buffett

Electric/Jazz version of 2001 a space odyssey

Wed Jun 24, 2020 8:16 pm

interesting...

I guess I have 3 songs, 1 car.

graduated in '97 and was driving a clapped the fuck out '88 M3 (if I only knew...) anyway in the spring of '98 I traded it in on a brand new VR6 GTI.

intergalactic by the beastie boys, slide by the goo goo dolls and you get what you give by the new radicals. all 3 played on my way home from the dealer.

that car was QUICK by the standards of the day. it was like 4 tenths slower than a mustang gt at the time and surprised a lot of people.

ended up selling it after a few years to buy my first house. and that's the day a piece of Skills died :cry:

fuck...now i'm thinking of this song....thanks

Thu Jun 25, 2020 7:45 pm

INXS- wow! Can't believe how many of us have them in common. My senior quote involved INXS and buses of all things. Their first album was one I bought during the summer of '85 when I had a '74 bay-

But a song that strongly reminds me of a car is "Oh My God" by The Police- from the then-new in summer of '83 album, "Synchronicity." Played it all the time in my '75 Datsun li'l hustler pickup.

Thu Jun 25, 2020 9:53 pm

hitest wrote: INXS- wow! Can't believe how many of us have them in common. My senior quote involved INXS and buses of all things. Their first album was one I bought during the summer of '85 when I had a '74 bay-

Maybe because many of us came of age during the '80s. (arguably the BEST generation of music diversity and evolution :) !!)

Thu Jun 25, 2020 10:04 pm

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The site is a fickle bitch, so mixing up your search names by artist or song may be required. But the downloads (once you find them) are tops! (Be sure to click "Download to Local")

Enjoy!

Fri Jun 26, 2020 4:02 pm

pink...can we pretend. it takes me back to being 22 again...and lots of racing and.......

Fri Jun 26, 2020 7:48 pm

Rooster- Alice In Chains. 1992
Selling my 1994 RX-7. Last song I heard out of it. And first song the new owner heard since I left the tape in the deck :lol:

Fri Jun 26, 2020 9:19 pm

I was playing this for Xatie today. She always thought this was an INXS song :D 34 years later and her mind is blown! 74 bug

Tue Jul 21, 2020 3:45 pm

These two always remind me of tooling around in my first Squareback- 1972 Kasan Red with dealer A/C... original Sapphire AM radio with a Radio Shaft FM converter. In those days radio was all local, and Cleveland's M-105 and WMMS 101 FM only played the album versions.

"Games People Play"- Spinners

"Who's That Lady"- Isley Bros. with Ernie Isley's incredible elongated guitar solo:

Guess I am on a music jag today. :D

Wed Jul 22, 2020 12:58 pm

Isleys... this song was all over the air when I bought my Westfalia. Only new car I ever bought. I jammed to this in the service dept. after hours when they allowed me to install my own A/C that I bought at dealer cost. I jammed to it rolling around Akron/ Cleveland/ Canton/ Youngstown all summer long:

This, too. Anyone remember this?

Yeah, I was heavy into the funk in those days. Beatles were long broken up, Lennon wasn't recording, Dylan had just gone all Christian, disco sucked.

I stuck a top of the line Krako AM/ FM/ Cassette with woodgrain faceplate and auto reverse in that Bus.

Fun times!!

Wed Jul 22, 2020 3:49 pm

And this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Yl_IcyFv_g&list=OLAK5uy_lfzrvSq8bz7aeKkdiTMMZrblVgicIh7BM

Get the funk out of my face

Wed Jul 22, 2020 4:07 pm

Zundfolge1432 wrote: And this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Yl_IcyFv_g&list=OLAK5uy_lfzrvSq8bz7aeKkdiTMMZrblVgicIh7BM

Get the funk out of my face

See, now, THAT'S what I'm talkin about! :D \:D/ The one that follows is a good one, too... "Strawberry Letter 23!!"

And, now... just for the funk of it...

Fuck... now I am flying down I-77 in that Bus again... :)

Wed Jul 22, 2020 4:19 pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QZvoOqUkqw

Fight the powers that be😀

Wed Jul 22, 2020 4:23 pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ayyy-03ITDg
Marvin says

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjlSiASsUIs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5BP2KlPD4U

Wed Jul 22, 2020 4:33 pm

All aboard the Soul Train!