One Piece At A Time Cadillac

Verse 1 well i left kentucky back in 49.

One piece at a time cadillac. With my big lunchbox and with help from my friends. One piece at a time lyrics. This is a different car from the one made by bruce fitzpatrick.

And went to detroit working on assembly line. You ll know it s me when i come through your town. In the psycho billy cadillac come on huh this is the cotton mouth.

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. Before he was a singer cash worked on the assembly line at a car factory in detroit. I visited the historic auto attractions museum in roscoe illinois a few years ago.

One piece at a time. This car was made at the behest of bill patch of welch oklahoma and constructed by leland mayfield harley malone eldon mccoy and don. In 1977 bill patch of welch ok who liked to tinker mechanically with his collection of antique autos decided to use his automotive know how build his own one piece at a time cadillac to help raise money for his lions club civic center.

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. Forty some years after the making and still available to witness at the storytellers hideaway farm this version of the one piece at a time cadillac was created by bill patch. I m gonna ride around in style i m gonna drive everybody wild.

Fitzpatrick used parts from 1949 to early 70s models. More songs from johnny cash more songs inspired by cars. After the initial introduction the two men became long time friends.

Cash s one piece at a time car coming home to welch. Patch who build the car for charity then presented the makeshift car to johnny cash in 1977. The psychobilly cadillac from the one piece at a time video is at the storytellers museum in bon aqua tennessee.

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. Cause i ll have the only one there is a round. This is about a guy who works at a car factory and builds his own cadillac by sneaking out one piece at a time.

Every day i d watch. He and his mechanics scavenged the salvage yards asking for any old cadillac parts. I d get it one piece at a time and it wouldn t cost me a dime.

Local coal man bill patch and his mechanics scavenged salvage yards looking for whatever cadillac parts they could find. So the very next day when i punched in. Keith martin author of strange but true tales of car collecting shares a fun story about a car built for a song literally.