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karohemdWhile listening to Racing in the Streets I just realized that I learned a lot of US trivia from listening to Springsteen and reading Stephen King, the latter often complementing the former.
Example: The first line in Racing in the Streets is "I had a '69 Chevy with a 396, Fuelly heads and a Hurst on the floor". Steve Earle's Sweet Little '66 (She's got a 396, she's got a four on the floor) didn't help much, either. For quite some time, I had no idea what that meant (there was no internet to look it up in '85 when I first heard the song) until I read Christine by Stephen King. Since then I know that the number is the cubic capacity, Fuelly is a brand of cylinder heads and Hurst is a brand of gearboxes...
Example: The first line in Racing in the Streets is "I had a '69 Chevy with a 396, Fuelly heads and a Hurst on the floor". Steve Earle's Sweet Little '66 (She's got a 396, she's got a four on the floor) didn't help much, either. For quite some time, I had no idea what that meant (there was no internet to look it up in '85 when I first heard the song) until I read Christine by Stephen King. Since then I know that the number is the cubic capacity, Fuelly is a brand of cylinder heads and Hurst is a brand of gearboxes...
