The song "The Hot Rod Race" by Arkie Shibley and the Mountain Dew Boys was the first of at least 5 'parts' of an on going saga, if you will about hot rodding. Then Charley Ryan wrote and performed "Hot Rod Lincoln" which is the one everybody's heard albeit in the variation done by Commander Cody and the Lost Planet Airman, the biggest difference being the 12 cylinder engine vs the 8 cylinder.
I made a CD with probably 15 or more versions of "The Hot Rod Lincoln" done by various artists including Jim Varney and Johnny Cash. My favorite version is by Bill Kirchen.