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Message: [QUOTE="HHH, post: 3981812, member: 11269"] And one for the car category, a cover performed by an obscure band “from Los Angeles, California” of a Tom Waits song about a 1955 Buick (Waits apparently felt the cover was “a little antiseptic”). The line “The cars are all passing me, the trucks are all flashing me” always reminds me of a trip I once took down i84 in a car my wife’s grandmother had gifted to us because it had been sitting unused for a few years. During this trip I discovered three things: [LIST] [*]Tires can look fine on the outside but be rotten inside. [*]i84 has "Minimum Speed 40" signs posted. [*]God has a sense of humor. [/LIST] Half-way into my maiden voyage in this car down i84 I discovered that doing anything over 40mph resulted in the car shaking and shimmying. Thinking that it must be something mechanical, I continued on my way at 40mph (with cars passing and trucks flashing), but turned off the radio so I could hear if the car made any bad noises. As I approached home and became less concerned, I turned the radio back on. And the song that was playing? Sammy Hagar’s “I Can’t Drive 55”. As Paige would’ve said, “That’s God!” :) [MEDIA=youtube]z9vS3hfS3sQ[/MEDIA] [/QUOTE]