When you’re young, a car is your escape, the way you get privacy and the way you have fun. Both songwriters and movie script writers get that cars are inspirational. They are the subject of so many great entertainers.
Let’s start with Willie Nelson and being On the Road Again. It is classic, epic and most people can sing right along. That idea of being footloose and fancy-free is a big part of the popularity of that song, don’t you agree?
The famous George Strait covers similar ground in Amarillo by Morning, that idea of moving on and the lonesome cowboy circuit.
Miranda Lambert captures some of the same thoughts in her Greyhound Bus Bound to Nowhere. Life on the highway surrounded by strangers is a lonely life, and she hit it right with this one.
“Eastbound and Down” …what’s the next line? “Loaded up and truckin’”! Jerry Reed did this song for the film, Smokey and the Bandit. It’s about a trucker and in fact, its catchy tune and lyrics have made it a classic trucking song and the movie became a classic trucking movie.
The twanging Long White Cadillac by Dwight Yoakam is such a great hillbilly anthem. And yes, hillbillies love cars, too.
The late John Denver’s Country Roads (Take Me Home) is a hauntingly beautiful ode to finding our way back home and for many people it hit home. He died too young.
If you are a fan of the classic car, don’t miss some of the best movies that feature them. Have you thought of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and its flying car? A very cool car based on a classic.
How about the Cadillac ambulance ins Ghostbusters? That’s a true classic. Same with the cars in Steve McQueen’s 1971 LeMans.
Crash, with James Spader and Holly Hunter would be one whose use of car accidents as a technique would not be advisable or it could damage your ability to get low cost Arizona auto insurance quotes from .
Same with Grand Theft Auto—even though it might be tempting to steal your father’s Rolls Royce. Assuming your father HAD one. But there is always a price to pay.
Even Owen Wilson couldn’t resist a car themed movie, with his Cars. Paul Newman was also in that film, which also featured Route 66. That’s an iconic roadway. So is Carefree Highway—thank you, Gordon Lightfoot.
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