Johnny Cash Cadillac One Piece At A Time Car
Fitzpatrick used parts from 1949 to early 70s models.
Johnny cash cadillac one piece at a time car. Johnny cash at the wheel of the official promotional one piece at a time cadillac built in 1976 by bruce fitzpatrick standing of abernathy auto parts and hilltop auto salvage in nashville tennessee. Before he was a singer cash worked on the assembly line at a car factory in detroit. Local coal man bill patch and his mechanics scavenged salvage yards looking for whatever cadillac parts they could find.
This car was made at the behest of bill patch of welch oklahoma and constructed by leland mayfield harley malone eldon mccoy and don. The song was covered by chicago rock band tub ring for the 2001 johnny cash tribute album cash from chaos. More songs from johnny cash more songs inspired by cars.
Ugly and cool all in one shot anyone know if it runs and drives. Nothing like the psychobilly cadillac. Johnny cash one piece at a time car on display.
Cash s one piece at a time car coming home to welch. Welch it s been on a long journey but the one piece at a time cadillac welchkin bill patch built and gave to johnny cash in the 1970s is coming home. This is a different car from the one made by bruce fitzpatrick.
The psychobilly cadillac from the one piece at a time video is at the storytellers museum in bon aqua tennessee. J d apr 26 2007. One piece at a time car.
I got it one piece at a time and it didn t cost me a dime you ll know it s me when i come through your town i m gonna ride around in style i m gonna drive everybody wild. And is the drive train the same as in the song. The song tells the story of a poor auto worker who over the years took cadillac parts home and then built a hodge podge auto of his own.
Keith martin author of strange but true tales of car collecting shares a fun story about a car built for a song literally. It was johnny s last song to reach number one on the billboard hot country singles chart and the last of his songs to reach the billboard hot 100 on which it peaked at number 29. Patch who build the car for charity then presented the makeshift car to johnny cash in 1977.
This is about a guy who works at a car factory and builds his own cadillac by sneaking out one piece at a time. Discussion in the hokey ass message board started by jamesg apr 26 2007.