Post by Classicblast on Nov 20, 2006 1:48:30 GMT -5
I like Johnny Cash. I have a number of his tapes in my vehicles.
It's customary for me to listen to Johnny Cash going on trips. My father had his tapes and played them in vehicles and I guess that's where the tradition comes in for me.
My favorite all time Johnny Cash song is where he works at the Cadillac factory and since he couldn't really afford a Cadillac he took one piece at a time and made his own over time.
I left Kentucky back in '49 went to Detroit to work on the assebly line.
My first year they had me putting wheels on Cadillacs.
Everyday I'd watch those beauties roll by and sometimes I'd hang my head and cry because I always wanted me one that was long and black.
One night I figured myself a plan that should be the envy of most any man I'd smuggle my Cadillac out in a lunch box in my hand.
Getting caught meant getting fired but I figured I'd have it all by the time I retired and I'd have me a car worth at least a hundred grnad.
CHOURSE I'd get it one piece at a time and it woudn't cost me a dime you'll know its me when I come through your town. Going to ride around in style and I'll drive everybody wild because I'll have the only one there is around.
I never considered myself a thief but G M wouldn't miss just one little piece especially if I spread it out over several years.
So the very next day when I punched in with a little help from a friend I left with a lunbox full of gears,
The next day I got me a fuel pump, a transmission and a trunk,
then an engine and the chrome
The smaller stuff I could take in my big lunch box like the nuts and bolts and all four shocks but the big things we had to smuglle out in my buddy's mobile home.
Up to now my plan had worked all right til we tried to put it together one night that's when we realized somethign was definately wrong.
The transmission was a '53 and the motor turned out to be a '73 and when we tried to put them together all the holes were gone.
So we drilled it out so it would fit and with a little bit of help from an adapter kit we had that engine running just like a song.
The headlights were quite a sight there were two on the left and one on the right but when we pulled out the switch all three of them came on.
The back end looked a little funny too but we put it together and when we got through that's when we realized we only had one tail fin.
Right about then my wife came out and I could see in her eye she had her doubt but she opened the door and said "Honny, take me for a spin.
We headed down the main drag I could hear people laughing from blocks around.
But when we got the the courthouse they didn't laugh cause to type it up it took the whole staff and when they got done the title weighed sixty pounds.
I got it one piece at a time and it didn't cost me a dime you'll know its me when I coune through your town going to drive around in style and I'll drive everybody wild because I'll have the only one there is around.
Hey this the Cotton Mouth in the Psycho Billy Cadillac. Yeah negatory on the price of this machine. Lets just say I picked it up at the factory it's cheaper that way.
What model is it, its a 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 automobile
its a 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 Automobile Its a 71 72 73 74 75 76 automobile
It's customary for me to listen to Johnny Cash going on trips. My father had his tapes and played them in vehicles and I guess that's where the tradition comes in for me.
My favorite all time Johnny Cash song is where he works at the Cadillac factory and since he couldn't really afford a Cadillac he took one piece at a time and made his own over time.
I left Kentucky back in '49 went to Detroit to work on the assebly line.
My first year they had me putting wheels on Cadillacs.
Everyday I'd watch those beauties roll by and sometimes I'd hang my head and cry because I always wanted me one that was long and black.
One night I figured myself a plan that should be the envy of most any man I'd smuggle my Cadillac out in a lunch box in my hand.
Getting caught meant getting fired but I figured I'd have it all by the time I retired and I'd have me a car worth at least a hundred grnad.
CHOURSE I'd get it one piece at a time and it woudn't cost me a dime you'll know its me when I come through your town. Going to ride around in style and I'll drive everybody wild because I'll have the only one there is around.
I never considered myself a thief but G M wouldn't miss just one little piece especially if I spread it out over several years.
So the very next day when I punched in with a little help from a friend I left with a lunbox full of gears,
The next day I got me a fuel pump, a transmission and a trunk,
then an engine and the chrome
The smaller stuff I could take in my big lunch box like the nuts and bolts and all four shocks but the big things we had to smuglle out in my buddy's mobile home.
Up to now my plan had worked all right til we tried to put it together one night that's when we realized somethign was definately wrong.
The transmission was a '53 and the motor turned out to be a '73 and when we tried to put them together all the holes were gone.
So we drilled it out so it would fit and with a little bit of help from an adapter kit we had that engine running just like a song.
The headlights were quite a sight there were two on the left and one on the right but when we pulled out the switch all three of them came on.
The back end looked a little funny too but we put it together and when we got through that's when we realized we only had one tail fin.
Right about then my wife came out and I could see in her eye she had her doubt but she opened the door and said "Honny, take me for a spin.
We headed down the main drag I could hear people laughing from blocks around.
But when we got the the courthouse they didn't laugh cause to type it up it took the whole staff and when they got done the title weighed sixty pounds.
I got it one piece at a time and it didn't cost me a dime you'll know its me when I coune through your town going to drive around in style and I'll drive everybody wild because I'll have the only one there is around.
Hey this the Cotton Mouth in the Psycho Billy Cadillac. Yeah negatory on the price of this machine. Lets just say I picked it up at the factory it's cheaper that way.
What model is it, its a 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 automobile
its a 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 Automobile Its a 71 72 73 74 75 76 automobile
