A rolling stone gathers no moss the only time I was good at something all it took was four wheels And you could be a Genius I guess the wheels gives it away this isn’t about bad boy bands heavy That broke many a levees of the mind but it is inextricably wound together with music and how apropos To write about it today when the music of all heaven was called to silence and then a whole lot of Shaking began When **** Clark walked through the gate don’t waist it just taste it it’s all right to be Burly and squirrely “Get lost in the rock and roll” amp it up Bob Seeger everything comes with rules There was time before Elvis but it still applied cool cats had one command be cool don’t break the Jackson rule of Cool Square is not the fit you want to project oh the sixties the place the strip in Hollywood the car an Austin Healy convertible if they even had hard tops which I doubt reading Michael Canes auto biography he spoke of him being there I didn’t see him but he got swallowed up by the Great beast it flowed out of those clubs into the street the sidewalks full of hot babes and cool dudes We were so low it was like you were on the payment it even got into the act there was a raw energy That electrified every ounce of your being it rose out of the payment and cruised those Hollywood Streets plus every street in America felt its heat and heard it s roar red cherry glass pack mufflers Then songs took up the anthem I had fun fun until my daddy took my T bird away shutem down GTO Jan and Dean’s Drag City, Dead Man’s Curve, The little old lady from Pasadena and many more but the king of cars that held the title was held by no other than the Cobra we were a couple of brazen GIs with a Seventy two hour pass we met the enemy at a stop light the Austin Healy sounded so throaty in that Southern California night air and we lived the song do you know the way to San Jose LA isn’t nothing but A bunch of old freeways we would roar up the entrance to the ten the Malibu highway the Five to Dego The 710 to long beach and the Queen Mary this southern California kid from Compton a suburb of LA Was giving me the grand tour Disney and Knox berry later in the day the big sad Walt had just died And then there was this monster next to us it was towering before we felt so continental a slight British Smugness as we drove this fine European sports car but when the lion roars your purring becomes a Little puckish it was bulging in comparison we were like a joke your mother won’t let you have a real car What did they paint the light red how many shades of red did we turn as we set in this shadow of green Paint and death for any idiot that tossed out a challenge when he took off it was like our car was Wearing a smug British suit and the force he generated when he accelerated tore every stitch off down To just underwear praying the smog would quickly envelop us the rest of the way didn’t happen so you Do what anyone does you choose the less of two evils and rattle on about how they put Porches engines Into VW bugs like who cares why is one of those suckers behind us well they are cool and this is about Cool cars you could always tell them by the tail pipe instead of a round rifle barrel it had a wide round Funnel at the end like the old blunder bust guns of the colonists then an era and times needs a voice The male was a mix of Lou Rawls and Berry white doing the singing but also any time introduction was Needed Aretha took care of the female side Jimmy Hendrix took care of the instrument on his Supernatural guitar Hugh Masicali African Jazz drummer follow the beat every teen Idol was making The girls swoon then you add in the mix the American auto chrome and steel dreams see the heat rising Flashes that were blurs running wide open filled with teens and thrill filled screams and then there was The exit and the entrance there was a royal distinction that rubbed off on its occupants the cool look And clothes and hair for both sexes dreamy stars in all places not just the bright lights of movie magic For girls it was they rode well but if they took the wheel this sealed the deal how can you add curves to Curves they had the saying your blowing my mind man it in toned them as perfect inter changeable the Womanly softness the interior the lines outside truly defined you are in the presence of qualities that Run deeper than just the surface you see so much more how blessed when both car and women Continually amaze you think you discovered everything oh foolish one you just stepped into another Power zone that was built in at creation somehow the car was somewhat accidental but the woman’s Was on purpose cheating would cease to a great extent if the truth was only known you got more Excitement than you will ever know and for the man let him step out rise to his full height there is Something sweeping and grand about it how could it be any different muscle and brawn distinction Used as in art subtle but by being so it is so telling appeal runs no stronger and it effects effortlessly Adds maximum benefit and joy girls find it unmercifully enjoyable packaged like fine wine in a wooden Box with straw in other words perfected delivery of romance simply a soothe that washes over you With lasting ramification the golden straw has glistening particles as well as star dust that make other World tastefulness abide in two lives equally shared so drive into the setting sun in your own heavy Metal dream that we love so well