![]() ![]() In 1976, Cash’s team hired a Nashville auto shop to construct a frankensteined Cadillac Coupe DeVille to promote the song, but it was ultimately destroyed the following year. ![]() ‘Cause I’ll have the only one there is around. I’m gonna ride around in style, I’m gonna drive everybody wild, You’ll know it’s me when I come through your town. I got it one piece at a time and it didn’t cost me a dime, The 1949–1973 patchwork car is the laughing stock of the town, but the narrator ultimately gets the free Cadillac he’d been dreaming of, which is of course, completely one-of-a-kind: After 25 years, he assembles the stolen parts only to realize they’re freakishly mismatched. He hatches a plan to fashion himself a car out of parts he patiently steals off the assembly line-one piece at a time. It’s a bouncy number about a Detroit auto worker who, assembling Cadillacs day after day, dreams of owning one himself. His 1976 song of the same name, written by Wayne Kemp, was Cash’s last song to make the Billboard Hot 100. There’s likely only one car, however, that’s been inspired by a song: Johnny Cash’s “One Piece at a Time” Cadillac, located in Bon Aqua, Tennessee. Plenty of songs have been inspired by cars: Wilson Pickett’s “Mustang Sally,” War’s “Low Rider,” and Prince’s “Little Red Corvette,” to name a few. ![]()
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