The opening lines of this song refer to an earlier song titled "Hot Rod Race," where a couple of guys racing neck and neck in their hopped up Ford and Mercury are passed by a kid in a model T. Of course the implication there is that it's a stock model T, and it's meant to be implausible and funny, like the Nash outrunning the Cadillac in "Beep Beep." Charlie Ryan created a more realistic explanation, and a far superior song, in "Hot Rod Lincoln."