#048 Around The World In 8 Cars with Richard
Porter. The man behind Sniff Petrol tells Gareth about
the wonderful cars he drove in the USA recently, and the
ones he got his hands on in Japan, and the cars he rode
in Australia too. (No-one likes a show-off!) Plus music
from Springsteen and Waits and J-Pop 3000.
Bruce Waits & Tom Springsteen
- Boulevard of Broken Windshields
There’s a boulevard of broken windshields
littered with stars and stripes
Names like Speed, Andretti Jnr. mar a list as long as
a lap of Vegas.
Where the drag strip heroes of the Fifties and the Seventies
plied their trade with cross-ply tires and cars that found
their buyers
by looking like they’re on fire
with a flame painted down the side in red white and yellow.
There’s a factory in Detroit that
is broken cold and empty
where the lines lie idle and the Teamsters ain’t
a union
like a like a Catholic without communion.
Yet the streets still roar with thunder as Ford and all
just plunder
GT40, Dodge Avenger, Cherokee.
Gareth Jones: Words, Voices, All Instruments
and Mix
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J-Pop 3000 – All Your Races
Are Belong To Us
Go fast, go fast, Super Drive
Special Racer go for fun
All your races are belong to us
All your races are belong to us
Win now, win now, Petrol Boy
Ultra Nitro, Super Supra
Virtual Drifter, Racer Boy
Game/Race, Game/Race, Game/Play Game
Lite-Ace, Skyline, Mega-Drive
Aristo, Soarer, NSX
Nissan March, Nissan March
Disco Pop
See me drive you high fast go
Mitsubishi GTO
Tomykaira Driver, Subaru
“Let me be your car”
Mugen, Denshi, Harrier
Turbo Race, Turbo Drive
Turbo Drive, Turbo Arrive
Arrive Alive, Arrive Alive!
Rice Rocket, Drift Boy, Go Go Go
Gran Turismo, race car show
Gran Turismo, Go Go Go
Gran Turismo, (mo mo mo)
Domo Arrigato, Konichua
Ichi, ni san shi go roku sichi, hachi, kyu, ju
Gaijin, Geisha, Kendo, Karate, Kung Fu,
Bukaki, Manga, Tokyo, Anime, Nintendo, Sony,
Suzuki, Toyota, Supra, Soarer, MR2.
Gareth Jones: Words, Voices, All Instruments
and Mix
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