AUTODESIGNO - Key Persons
Jeff Beck is a fantastic hot rodder. Jeff Beck, he's a real gear head. He builds his own cars. He has a nice collection of real hot rods, Deuce Coupes and stuff. Roadsters. Everything.
Nick Mason from Pink Floyd has an enormous, very high-end European race cars collection. So, there's a lot of musicians that have cars. As far as songs they wrote, a lot of people sing about cars because that's still the American way. A lot of guys don't even have to be gear heads. Sammy Hagar, which I think he's a gear head. I Can't Drive 55, songs like that. What The Beach Boys did was they actually wrote songs about the car. They didn't use the car to make a picture of the whole scene that the song is trying to tell. They actually wrote songs about the cars, and got very, as I said, precise, and just some of the lyrics are so technical.
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Panunzio: Well, the other car that I lost was a '57 Ranchero. The first year of the Ranchero. And I was only six years old when that car came out. But I remember I used to go through magazines at a very, very young age and cut out all the pictures, and glue them into a notebook of cars. And I knew every car there was, and I remember seeing an ad for that. I had already seen the ad for the '57 Fairlane, and I loved it. And still to this day, I feel like that's me. That car is, I feel, the most comfortable. And that style… the whole thing! And when I saw the Ranchero, which was the first year of the Ranchero, the El Camino didn't come out for two years after that. So there was nothing like that, and I always liked trucks.
Thom Panunzio's new ride, the Ford Raptor, is a go-anywhere, kick-ass machine. Beyond a shadow of a doubt, if there's another natural disaster along the coast, the Ford Raptor can find a way out in a hurry. More info on Panunzio and the talent and projects he's associated with can be found here.