Talk:Little Deuce Coupe (song)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 06:30, 2 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Flat Head Mill

The lyrics go into a certain amount of technical detail about hot-rodding ("shes ported and relieved and shes stroked and bored" etc). This could do with some explanation, and it might be fun to do so, but it's far outside my sphere of expertise. If nothing else it would give you eager beavers a sneaky chance to include most of the lyrics. -Ashley Pomeroy (talk) 17:07, 18 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Pink Slip Daddy

What is a "Pink Slip Daddy"? 20.133.0.13 (talk) 14:38, 4 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Songfacts says this: "The line at the end of the song .. means that the singer won a race with his Little Deuce Coupe, earning him his opponent's car. The "pink slip" is the vehicle's registration, so "racing for pink slips" means the winner gets the other car." The phrase was itself the inspiration for the name of a band "Pink Slip Daddy" formed by Palmyra Delran in 1988. Martinevans123 (talk) 09:58, 14 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The Little Deuce Coupe album article says this:

"A pink slip (mentioned in the lyrics) was the title to the car, named for the color of the paper then used in California vehicle ownership certificates.^{[citation needed]}".

I'm assuming that, to be grammaticlaly correct, the lyrics should have a comma before the "daddy", so that the "daddy" has the same meaning as daddy-o thus: "Used in the 1950s and 1960s as a term of endearment, or to appear "hip"."

Alternatively, of course, Mike Love might be claiming to have "got" the dominant partner in a gay relationship, who is also a cross-dresser favouring pink underwear. Possibly less likely, I feel. Martinevans123 (talk) 20:43, 21 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I always thought it meant the pink slip you get from a drag strip that is a record of the time you ran. 70.172.207.5 (talk) 19:28, 27 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Listening at .25x speed, it may sound like "big slip - daddy". The "big slip" limited slip differential rear transmission was available in the 60's. It may follow logically after listing other power features of the car, that the thing that would really "flip your lid" would be that both rear tires spin at the same launch rate. It may not "flip your lid" to simply know that he owned the vehicle. Albeit, most published lyrics state "pink slip daddy".