Interesting background. . .

"Hot Rod Lincoln"

It was while driving back from a gig at Lewiston's Pair-A-Dice Club that the idea for Ryan's next song was sparked by a particular incident. One night Ryan decided to race a Cadillac owned by his buddy, Bert Bartholomew, over the narrow Clearwater Bridge northward out of Lewiston and right up that Lewiston Highway toward Spokane. Ryan later recalled: "He passed me goin' up there and I passed him comin' down" (Bristol, 15). That post-midnight white-knuckle trip inspired a set of lyrics -- "the fenders were clickin' the guardrail posts, the guys beside me were white as ghosts"* -- that Ryan worked on for a few years before completing, and then finally recording, the song.
Here


* Climbing Lewiston Hill - YouTube youtube.com

I don't think you could twist the end of the speedometer cable off on Lewiston Hill.

The Grapevine maybe but not the
Old Spiral Highway