Posted on 06/19/2021 6:01:34 PM PDT by mylife
It’s pretty definitively summer now, and if the coming of summer doesn’t fill you at least with some residual, school’s-out-tinged joy, then I suppose all I have to offer you is pity. Summer should also mean something else to anyone with a pulse: the 1989 B-52 song “Love Shack.” That song famously references a gigantic Chrysler, and I think it’s time we accurately determined which Chrysler the B-52s are singing about.
I got me a Chrysler, it seats about twenty...
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Hop in my Chrysler, it’s as big as a whale
And it’s about to set sail
I got me a car, it seats about twenty, so come on
And bring your jukebox money
So, we know three things about the car that Fred wants to drive you down to the Love Shack in: it’s a Chrysler, it’s as big as a whale, and seats “about 20.”
(Excerpt) Read more at jalopnik.com ...
But did it have seats of “Rich, Corrrrrrrrrinthian leather”?
Do you still have the Avanti?
Rupaul is in that video
My sister had a 1965 Chrysler Newport.
We could sneak 6 people into the drive-in in the trunk.
The 300 came to mind on reading the title.
“Imperial was a separate standalone product.”
For that period.
The B-52s (”The 2s” as we used to call them) seem to like Mopar products. They sing about a very fast Plymouth Satellite in “Planet Claire.”
I’ve been in that Plymouth Satellite, Roadrunner too
No kidding. I was working with my father out front when sis pulled up in the Valiant one hot Florida afternoon with the AC on.
She casually got out and told my father that she had seen ‘smoke’ from the front and the guy at the gas station (8 city miles away) said to have her father fill the coolant when she got home. By the time she got home there was no steam - NO COOLANT left!
My father restarted it, got the hose and slowly misted and filled the radiator. Ran fine till he traded it years later.
we got that roardrunner airborne going over the railroad tracks...
No. It got to the point where I needed to spend either a lot of time or money to keep it in the condition that it needed to be in and I had neither. It was a fun car and dripped of luxury (burl wood dash, Nardi steering wheel, 100% wool carpet, etc...), but at its heart, it was still more a looker than a performer.
In high school we got 11 people in a Ford Maverick for a lunch run one time.
Now, the song clearly states “car” but a van is still maybe a possibility, especially if we consider what is arguably the most important Chrysler of the 1980s: the Town and Country minivan.
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Somehow the music video for “Love Shack” just wouldn’t be as cool if the group arrived in a Chrysler Minivan.
I despise the B 52’s. I’d rather have my toenails pulled out than have to endure their unlistenable “arthouse” dreck.
That is an awesome story! I come from a family of four and before my Dad was deployed to Europe, he went out to purchase a car. My Mom thought he’d come back with a small sedan but he arrived in a blue and white 1975 Plymouth Voyager window van. Enormous compared to many cars on Europe’s roads. We spent 6 years in Europe and drove that thing all over the place. I have some great memories of our adventures and a few visa stamps from countries that no longer exist.
It’s amazing how a car, truck, or van can be an anchor for so many memories.
I feel bad for many kids today as they don’t seem to have the same enthusiasm for driving that I remember having. Some are opting to not get their license and just Uber around.
yer on the wrong thread butthead
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