![]() Yep, 4.11 gears are good and make memories. She just stayed back by the gate until we got her home. I took off and she slid back, pulling herself up to the front, until I caught second, then she was back by the gate again, she got up just in time for third. Once my Girlfriend's younger, like 9 or 10,year old, niece was sitting between the buckets in the flat seat. I used to drive with the rear seat folded down. He said "We found it and thought it might be yours." One of the guys from the garage came out and asked if I was looking for my driveshaft. We towed it home at night and I was walking along the ditch looking for it the next day. They were great gears! I even tossed the rear half of the driveshaft out on Canal Rd. Tighten a little, loosen a little, in the end, yeah, that feels good. I took the third member into my parent's cellar and put it in my Great Grandfather's big old vice. Just turn one bearing in and the other out." "Give me the parts. When I asked for the ring he said "Oh, you don't need that. ![]() It was assembled, without the spacer and very sloppy. After a couple of months (he never missed a night in the bar), I went to his house to pick it up, done or not. But that's what they do.Īnyway, the 4.11 ring gear required a spacer and longer bolts. still do, think that shows a shallow understanding of the mechanics of the car. Later, guys started counting the number of bolts holding the cover on. Now, that is a ten bolt rearend that has 10 bolts to hold the ring gear on. Since it was a delicate job, needing dial indicators, blueing, and all the stuff Hot Rod Magazine said (from some article a guy who needed groceries wrote), I took it to a mechanic who did side jobs at his home. Now the story goes to those "experts" and blowhards who told me they were mechanics. Other guys were going 4.88 and some into the 5's. I bought a set of 4.11 gears for that car, mainly because the song said so. In 1995, Jim Varney (aka: Ernest) recorded a cover which was used in 'The Beverly Hillbillies' movie.Maybe 6 months out of the Navy in early 1972 I bought a black '58 Chevy wagon with a later 283, WCFB 4 barrel, '64 Impala bucket seats, and a floor shifter between them attached to a close ratio 3 speed. In the 80s, Asleep At The Wheel released a very nice version. 'Hot Rod Lincoln' has been performed by many artists - Johnny Bond had a regional hit with the song in 1959 Commander Cody and the Lost Planet Airmen covered it in 1972. But 'Hot Rod Lincoln' was the first car song to become a major hit and make the Billboard top ten list. Other car songs were written before Charlie's, everything from 'My Merry Oldsmobile' ( 1903) to Jackie Brentson's 'Rocket 88' ( 1951 - and, with Ike Turner on keyboard, it's considered by many to be the very first rock n' roll song). While traveling to perform, Charlie and his wife Ruthie often took the Hot Rod Lincoln on tour. It became a major hit in many regions of the United States. Charlie Ryan recorded 'Hot Rod Lincoln' in 1955 it was released as a single by Souvenir Records in 1957. By the early 1950s, he had the lyrics worked out and began performing it. While he was working on the car, Charlie was thinking about the song. It was repainted again in 1986 in " Datsun Z-car red." Charlie told me, " The paint's the only Japanese thing on it." The interior has a narrowed '41 Zephyr dashboard. The car has a lot of Lincoln touches on it, including cut-down Zephyr bumpers, a Lincoln emblem on the radiator and the Lincoln greyhound radiator ornament. Charlie installed a '48 V-12 engine in it along with the 3-speed with overdrive '48 transmission. At first, the car was painted black with red wheels. He removed the Zephyr body, cut two feet off the frame to shorten the wheelbase and dropped a 1930 Ford Model A coupe body on it. After a couple of years, he decided to make a hot rod out of it. ![]() In the late 1940s, he purchased a used 1941 Lincoln Zephyr four-door sedan. He fashioned both the car and the song.Ĭharlie Ryan is a musician, songwriter and a car guy. Nevertheless, the creator of 'Hot Rod Lincoln' is Charlie Ryan. I never heard his version until I bought - you guessed it - a car songs compilation album in the mid-1960s. It was a far bigger hit in the NY-NJ-Philly universe than the lame Williams rendition.Ĭharlie Ryan recorded 'Hot Rod Lincoln' in 1955 it became a hit for him during the 1957-60 period, depending on what area of the country you lived in. 'Butterfly', a 1957 hit for Andy Williams, can't hold a candle to the 1956 Charlie Gracie version released on Philadelphia's Cameo Records label. In those days, there were 'regional hits' - that's why many of those reissued compilation albums have songs or artists you don't recognize. His version was the one that caught on in the Philadelphia area. The first time I ever heard the song 'Hot Rod Lincoln' was in 1960. ![]()
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