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* [[Lumpy Gravy]], ''Lumpy Gravy Part 1'' or [[At The Gas Station]] in the sectorized version, uses an almost identical dialogue as the Crab-Grass Baby character in [[Thing-Fish]]: (...) Her and her girlfriend used to go out and booze it up and tear up the '''seats'''; rip the seats completely out, and so I got '''a fifty-six Olds'''. About the time I got it running decently, she got in it and wrecked the trans... tore it completely up, so I had to get '''another Oldsmobile''' (...)
 
* [[Lumpy Gravy]], ''Lumpy Gravy Part 1'' or [[At The Gas Station]] in the sectorized version, uses an almost identical dialogue as the Crab-Grass Baby character in [[Thing-Fish]]: (...) Her and her girlfriend used to go out and booze it up and tear up the '''seats'''; rip the seats completely out, and so I got '''a fifty-six Olds'''. About the time I got it running decently, she got in it and wrecked the trans... tore it completely up, so I had to get '''another Oldsmobile''' (...)
 
* In the title song, [[Joe's Garage]], on ''[[Joe's Garage Acts I, II & III]]'' (1979), there is actually a car in the garage where Joe's band has its mediocre practice sessions: "It wasn't very large / There was just enough room to cram the drums / In the corner over by the '''Dodge / It was a fifty-four with a mashed up door'''" (...)
 
* In the title song, [[Joe's Garage]], on ''[[Joe's Garage Acts I, II & III]]'' (1979), there is actually a car in the garage where Joe's band has its mediocre practice sessions: "It wasn't very large / There was just enough room to cram the drums / In the corner over by the '''Dodge / It was a fifty-four with a mashed up door'''" (...)
* Though largely an instrumental piece, [[The Orange County Lumber Truck]] appears on three Zappa albums: first on ''[[Weasels Ripped My Flesh]]'' (1970), ''[[Make a Jazz Noise Here]]'' (1991), and ''[[Ahead of Their Time]]'' (1993).
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* Though largely an instrumental piece, [[The Orange County Lumber Truck]] appears on three Zappa albums: first on ''[[Weasels Ripped My Flesh]]'' (1970), ''[[Make A Jazz Noise Here]]'' (1991), and ''[[Ahead Of Their Time]]'' (1993).
  
 
==Cars depicted in Artwork for Releases==
 
==Cars depicted in Artwork for Releases==

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Cars in Zappa's Lyrics

  • "The Adventures Of Greggery Peccary" on Studio Tan (1978): cars are mentioned in the first movement where Greggery goes to work ("Every morning, GREGGERY drives his little red Volkswagen to the ugly part of town where they keep the Government Buildings") and in the third movement where he is pursued by the Hunchmen ("They zoom after him in all manner of cars, trucks, garishly-painted buses, and motorcycles")
  • The song "You Are What You Is" mentions the car make "Mercedes Benz" as a typically "white" car in the conversation between the black and the white person in the middle of the song ("I don't understand you...", "BWANA MA-COO-BAH!", "Would you please speak more clearly?", "MERCEDES BAINNNNNNNZ!").
  • The Crab-Grass Baby character in the musical Thing-Fish has a fondness for cars ("Stroke [my pompadour] nicely while I tell you about the problems I am having with my car an my girlfriend. (...) Her and her girlfriend used to go out and booze it up and tear up the upholstery; rip the seats completely out, and so I got a fifty-six Olds. About the time I got it running decently, she got in it and wrecked the trans... tore it completely up, so I had to get another Oldsmobile (...) Buy me a Volvo, faaather").
  • Lumpy Gravy, Lumpy Gravy Part 1 or At The Gas Station in the sectorized version, uses an almost identical dialogue as the Crab-Grass Baby character in Thing-Fish: (...) Her and her girlfriend used to go out and booze it up and tear up the seats; rip the seats completely out, and so I got a fifty-six Olds. About the time I got it running decently, she got in it and wrecked the trans... tore it completely up, so I had to get another Oldsmobile (...)
  • In the title song, Joe's Garage, on Joe's Garage Acts I, II & III (1979), there is actually a car in the garage where Joe's band has its mediocre practice sessions: "It wasn't very large / There was just enough room to cram the drums / In the corner over by the Dodge / It was a fifty-four with a mashed up door" (...)
  • Though largely an instrumental piece, The Orange County Lumber Truck appears on three Zappa albums: first on Weasels Ripped My Flesh (1970), Make A Jazz Noise Here (1991), and Ahead Of Their Time (1993).

Cars depicted in Artwork for Releases

Cars in the Literature

"Do you like my new car?"

"Do you like my new car?" is a phrase that, just like "What's a girl like you doin' in a place like this?", is often used by characters in Zappa's work as an implicit sexual advance. Unlike the other line, however, it is always used in connection with groupies, as in the "Groupie Routine" of the Flo & Eddie years (which even appears under the title "Do You Like My New Car?" on the Fillmore East, June 1971 album).

The line also appears in the song "Daddy, Daddy, Daddy" on 200 Motels (1971), where it retains its groupie context ("She's such a dignified lady, / She's so pretty and soft. / You can't call her a groupie, / It just pisses her off"). Additionally, the backing vocals cite several makes of cars towards the end of the song ("It's a Bently, / It's a Cooper, / It's a Chevy, / Or a Lincoln").

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