Hot Rod Race

You've probably heard Hot Rod Lincoln many times over the years, and not just yesterday when we were mourning Commander Cody. But did you know that it was a reply to an earlier song? The older song, here, is figured in the opening lines: "Let me tell you a story about a hot rod race where the Fords and the Lincolns were setting the pace; that story is true, I'm here to say; I was driving that Model A."

You'll hear of that Model A again in this bit. It's not as good as the later song, but it's rock and roll history. 

There's a follow-up piece. 

There's a third one, as well, about the legal consequences.

And a fourth one, from the perspective of the Mercury.

So you can see how it was easy for another party to apply a reply to this tradition.  Nor did it stop there; the Reverend Horton Heat added to the tradition many years later.