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UTPr0sim
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Late Mornign Trivia! [Cars in Music Style]

Lots of cars in Music. I'm going to list the singer/group. For a Ding name the car they had in a song. For the Ding DIng Ding name the song! One car per Lounger till 10AM. Then have at it! ZZ Top Joe Walsh Don McLean Bruce Springsteen Shania Twain Beach Boys (this is a tricky ?) Janis Joplin
Posted: 12/15/2025 at 08:24 AM ET

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Late Mornign Trivia! [Cars in Music Style] ◄
UTPr0sim • 12/15/25 08:24 AM ET
Answer inside! (not bad Loungers - all but 2) link if you want to hear!**
UTPr0sim • 12/15/25 12:11 PM ET
Gary Numan... Cars.**
BobG • 12/15/25 12:07 PM ET
Beach Boys, Bobsled, Little Saint Nick
RichwebHokie • 12/15/25 11:44 AM ET
No Billy Ocean?
VTHokie2000 • 12/15/25 11:09 AM ET
ANother goody!**
UTPr0sim • 12/15/25 11:25 AM ET
Didn't The Beach Boys sing Little GTO?**
vthhhi • 12/15/25 11:06 AM ET
they also sang about a T-bird...**
`lag • 12/15/25 11:33 AM ET
Fun, fun, fun until her daddy takes the t-bird away . . .**
RhinoVT • 12/15/25 11:42 AM ET
They did but I didn't think of that on. Hint that may be the car of
UTPr0sim • 12/15/25 11:26 AM ET
Hot Rod Lincoln, Commander Cody & the Lost Planet Airmen.**
7Hokie1 • 12/15/25 10:49 AM ET
True a great song. I didn't think of it though.**
UTPr0sim • 12/15/25 11:04 AM ET
Hint: Shania's Song is in the first verse and 2 different cars are named.**
UTPr0sim • 12/15/25 09:16 AM ET
Hint ZZ Tops in Verse 3 of the song and the car is no longer made**
UTPr0sim • 12/15/25 09:13 AM ET
V8 Ford, New Cadillac. I'm bad, I'm nationwide**
RhinoVT • 12/15/25 09:41 AM ET
Ding DIng Ding, BUT not the song I had in mind. (must be lots of ZZtop song
UTPr0sim • 12/15/25 09:53 AM ET
Edsel**
santafe • 12/15/25 09:15 AM ET
Nope.**
UTPr0sim • 12/15/25 09:16 AM ET
Does a bus count? ZZ Top - Waitin for the bus**
Hokerer • 12/15/25 09:08 AM ET
Nope.**
UTPr0sim • 12/15/25 09:11 AM ET
Didn't the Beach Boys sing about ZZ Top's car...
EDGEMAN • 12/15/25 09:05 AM ET
DING DING DING but I was going for 409 (see below) do you know that car?**
UTPr0sim • 12/15/25 09:11 AM ET
zztop "She's got Legs" 32 Ford**
Coach McGuirk • 12/15/25 09:05 AM ET
Nope. At least not that I could find in the original lyrics**
UTPr0sim • 12/15/25 09:10 AM ET
You left out the Pebbles jam :>)**
Tuckahokie • 12/15/25 08:50 AM ET
Mercedes Boy!**
HokiesChemicals • 12/15/25 09:04 AM ET
Don Mc Lean Chevy**
santafe • 12/15/25 08:40 AM ET
Ding for Chevy. Do you know the song?**
UTPr0sim • 12/15/25 08:42 AM ET
American Pie**
santafe • 12/15/25 08:51 AM ET
Ding, Ding, Ding - The Iconice drove my chevy to the levy rhyme!**
UTPr0sim • 12/15/25 08:55 AM ET
I found that lyric dry.**
PhotoHokieNC • 12/15/25 12:09 PM ET
Janis Joplin... Mercedes Benz (car and song name)
Tuckahokie • 12/15/25 08:38 AM ET
Ding, Ding, Ding - Janis's most famous song.**
UTPr0sim • 12/15/25 08:42 AM ET
Some would assert Me and Bobby McGee not realizing that it was written by
Tuckahokie • 12/15/25 08:45 AM ET
Cry Baby & Piece of My Heart might also be contenders for her most well
VTHokie2000 • 12/15/25 11:02 AM ET
Yeah, I'd go with PomH.**
`lag • 12/15/25 11:26 AM ET
I probably would too, but I think more people recognize her opening sound
VTHokie2000 • 12/15/25 11:35 AM ET
And a cover..Originally performed by Roger Miller ("King of the Road" fame)**
UTPr0sim • 12/15/25 08:57 AM ET
Walsh - "a Maserati that does 185"**
ColoVT82 • 12/15/25 08:37 AM ET
Ding for Maserati! Do you know the song?**
UTPr0sim • 12/15/25 08:42 AM ET
Life's been good to me (so far).**
ColoVT82 • 12/15/25 09:20 AM ET
I can't drive 55**
EDGEMAN • 12/15/25 08:58 AM ET
Life's been good to me**
EDGEMAN • 12/15/25 08:58 AM ET
DIng DIng Ding! It was an 8 minute version on the album But Seriously Folks**
UTPr0sim • 12/15/25 09:08 AM ET
The Boss had a “Pink Cadillac”**
Va AandM • 12/15/25 08:34 AM ET
Ding Ding Ding. Indeed Bruce record it on the B side of Dancing in the DarK**
UTPr0sim • 12/15/25 08:36 AM ET
Also had a '69 Chevy in "Racing in the Streets"**
Coach McGuirk • 12/15/25 09:07 AM ET
With a 396, Fuelie heads and a Hurst on the floor**
MAHokie69 • 12/15/25 03:53 PM ET
And of course referenced Cadillac's in Cadillac Ranch a well
SteveInBaltimore • 12/15/25 12:55 PM ET
Little Deuce coup or She’s so fine my 409 song?**
Vtskier1 • 12/15/25 08:32 AM ET
Ding for the song 409. Now what kind of car was that?**
UTPr0sim • 12/15/25 08:34 AM ET
Edit... Edge got it....
Vtskier1 • 12/15/25 09:11 AM ET
It was a Chevy...probably an Impala**
EDGEMAN • 12/15/25 08:58 AM ET
Ding Ding Ding! The 409 was only in the Chevy Impala SS - Channeling
UTPr0sim • 12/15/25 09:14 AM ET