Puzzle Description:

Cab-over Pete with a reefer on.

#1: Joe (infrapinklizzard) on Jun 17, 2018 [SPOILER]

Was the dark of the moon on the sixth of June
In a Kenworth pullin' logs
Cab-over Pete with a reefer on
And a Jimmy haulin' hogs
We is headin' for bear on I-one-oh
'Bout a mile outta Shaky Town
I says, "Pig Pen, this here's the Rubber Duck.
"And I'm about to put the hammer down."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwaygKjs2fI

This is a cab-over-engine (aka flat-faced) Peterbilt tractor with a refrigerated trailer.

I've been humming that ever since I saw the title. I'm not done, I just had to see if I was right, or if I was going to mess myself up by aiming for a semi, or even a convoy.

Hadn't heard that song in ages. I didn't have a CB but I know a lot of people who did. Beautifully done.

I've heard the song, but I never paid attention to the lyrics. I know the spoof version better.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PF-iAV9YOqY

Nice truck.

To show my age, I'd never heard the Car Phone parody from 1990 (when I had a 4-yr-old and no radio reception). I also heard the original when it was new in 1975. I was only 8 but my oldest sister's future husband was very into CBs. (His handle was Aardvark because of his prominent nose.)

I hadn't heard it for ages. I didn't remember the chorus being so...falsetto? Or breathy, maybe.

I had to try a few truck pictures to find one that didn't completely turn into mush at this resolution. It still had to be a bigger puzzle than I usually like, tho.

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