The most popular body mod on Southern California Stingrays (especially 1963 to 1965 was to remove the backup- lights; replace them with tailights and then add 2 more inlight inboard next to the licence plate - giving a total of 3 per side = "6 tailights" I even still have a copy of the magazines "Speed and Custom" outling how to do this without even needing a new paint job!!
I've always wondered why the song says "all the Jag could see was my 6 taillights" . Correct me if I'm wrong , but I can't think of any Vette that ever came with 6 taillights.
@Junglemon1... I think owners icould buy a set with two additional back lights that could be mounted next to the original lights. That makes 3 at each side. I don't know the reason, I can imagine that it had to do with 'being a look-a-like' Ferrari or other 6 tail lights car
@HenriMusicBox 63 to 67 vetts had 2 lites each side, as you know....there was a custom kit available as an after market custom addition that had an extra lite. They were referred to as 'California tail lights'. or a "California kit" It was the most common customizing done in the day.
I swear I actually replayed this race for real one night with a Lincoln Town Car vs. a Jag x type. Going up Essington Ave it was all good till the light at 67th street. I checked up, the jag tried to take the curve into Passyunk Ave. Result???? Same as the song. Jag bounced off the wall & into the oil refinery fence.... Jag loses again.
@829012 What can I say, I was a fast limo driver. And smart enough try a 90 degree curve at 80 mph. Needless to say did not stick around. Lincoln Town car top speed for the curious? 110 mph limit by the computer.
He says hes crusing in his stingray thats an earlys 60 corvette that had a shitload of horse power. I don't know the date of this video but I don't think thats a corvette zr1
I LOVE Jan and Dean. I love the classic cars and they sang some wonderful songs about them. I love Drag City too. Their songs make me very happy. They were beautiful together. Thanks guys.
The reason the Jag pulled into the curve and the Stingray couldn't was because the Jag had a rubber chicken in the passenger seat. The extra 2 ounces allowed for better weight distribution.
I've heard that stupid anti-Corvette/pro-Corvette fight over and over again so many times it makes me ill. People will like the cars they like.. No need for personal insults. Variety is what makes the world go round. I can appreciate all sorts of cars: Muscle cars, Corvettes, Mustangs, '50s cars, European sports cars, Cobras, and lots of others.. Corvettes are my favorite, and I've owned one (a '65), but I don't think that anyone who dislikes Corvettes is a moron (just unenlightened :-) )
1960's American Stingray couldn't corner? Shocker. Did not see that coming. Skinny tires while in a high speed turn, not a winning formula on 'Deadmans Curve'. Thousand bucks says Deadman's Curve is a flat turn 30mph zone, not banked in the slightest bit.
It was Jan Berry who was respected as a record producer NOT Dean Torence. Brain Wilson and Jan Berry learned a great deal from each other record wise, this according to Brian hisself. . The Beach Boys and Jan and Dean were all friends and sang background on each others records when ever possable. Dean sings on the BB song BARBRA ANNE just to name one. Sorry I dont like this cover it s insulting to Jan Berry AND to Jan and Dean.
@silverado271 No they're not!! My dad bought one in 1990(still has it) and my family isnt rich by any means!! I own a tire shop in my home town and my dad and I both, arent affraid to get dirty!! Your barking up the wrong tree kid!!!
@nickthastick i dont give a god damn if your rich daddy owns a corvette or not. there peices of shit. and i doubt you or your daddy even know how to work on the damn thing.. If your daddy knew what performance WAS he wouldnt have got a vette to begin with. ...call me kid, what are you 13? I'be built more motors than you have pubes. ope!! go hurry! count them just to make sure! ... fuck off your moms callin u for dinner.
@silverado271 Go fuck yourself asshole!! In 1988, same year your mom was arrested for prostitution, the vette was cheap and fast, like your mom!!! If you ever talk to me like that on the internet again, i will look up your mom and slap her across the face for making you such a duche bag!!! Fuck off prick!!!
@silverado271 Thank you sir, your not to bad yourself. I dont see the vette as a rich mans car. My dad has had two jobs his entire life and it pisses me off to hear people talk trash about american sports cars.... its not the greatest car by any strech, but it always puts a smile on your face when you drive it!! Thats all you can ask for in a 23 year old car!!
@nickthastick ill respect what you say about the corvette.. i understand that not all vettes are owned my rich people.. and they are fun to drive.. its just.. my list is entirely to long to explain as to why i hate corvettes.. but as long as they stay in the class as you said "sports car" and not a "hotrod" ill keep me mouth shut.
@silverado271 My opinion, the last vette that was a "muscle car" was probably the 67 with the 427, or the 63 split window with the ZO6 option!! Even then, they still weren't that fast. Im partial to Pontiac, my dad is a bowtie fan. I could go on for days about both, but muscle cars are supposed to be loud and obnoxious, thats why people (including me) love them. Still wish i had my Trans Am.
@GeorgeVreelandHill I totally agree that they belong in the rock and roll hall of fame. Is there a way that we create a way to help make it a reality,
In reality, in a straight line, the Stingray would most likely taken the Jag. When they got to "the curve" the dead man would have been driving the 'vette, as any petrol head worth anything knows, they couldn't corner or stop for shit...
Places to play: A park,a swimming pool,miniature golf,Six Flags,the beach & even your own backyard. Notice that Dead Mans Curve does NOT appear on that list.
@MsAutobodyman What can you say, it was a low budget production. It still gives you the feel though of what they were singing about though. I wanted to remake this video with my 2003 Z06 corvette but I knew everyone would rip it apart the same way.
Did you also notice this version was recorded one semitone higher?
Good old Dean Torrence! Kidding around as usual. I love his corny but humorous introduction to this song! Actually, the version of "Deadman's Curve" that plays in the video is not the original hit recording from 1964 in which Jan Berry sang lead. I believe this version is a re-recorded version from the 70's which featured Dean singing leads and some backgrounds as well. Good stuff though!
@ngnnick1967 True. Dean couldn't produce as well. In my opnion, he couldn't sing or write as well as Jan either, although I did like his falsetto and some of his lead vocals. I'm still a huge fan of both guys though, and always will be. Certainly beats most of the music that comes out today. Well, except for my music. My music's great! The boys down at the plant love my music! (LOL. Inside joke).
"I flew past LaBrea, Schwab's, and Crescent Heights
And all the Jag could see were my six taillights"
It was a popular customizing idea to add an extra tail light to each side of the '63 to '67 Corvette Sting Ray, giving it 6 tail lights. It looked cool and was a cheap way to customize the car.
It appears as a C4 'Vette' racing a modified XKE: notice what appears to be radius wheel wells... It might have been a V-8 conversion or something.
I've driven both (Vette '96) and the Jag (1966) which the latter is definitely a more fine EU type of performer. While a C4 does it all everywhere! Thank you for this posting. NOTE: I still have the Vette...
It was a hit song for Jan & Dean in 1964. Eerily, it was to almost become their banner song in real life. Jan Berry's horrific Corvette car crash in 1966, near to the real Dead Man's Curve in southern California, impacted both his and Dean Torrence's lives.
The Jan Berry Center of southern CA is devoted to Jan's desire to succeed in life despite a traumatic brain injury.
Right up to their final performance in 2004, they remained friends. RIP
@hellgate67 Yes, they were true friends from high school untill Jan s death. I never had a brain injury but I was born with 2 disabilities in 1955 so Jan is a person who blessed my life with music AND became a person who inspired me when he came back on the stage aftr haveing to deal with his own disabilities. . Even with his limitations Jan went on stage and sang HE SHOWED THEM. . And Dean bless his heart understood the meaning of REAL friendship. I miss Jan . Rock on Dean. RIP my sweet Jan
@hellgate67 Yes, Dean was a True friend to Jan that didnt change after the accindent and Dean deserves lots of respect for that alone. Jan, well....he showed THEM. Yes, you can be disabled and still do what you love . Maybe it s not easey but who says life is easey... Jan is my heroe and mentor / inspiration. Rock on dear Dean. RIP my sweet Jan.
This is not the originally-released, authentic version of this great song. However, when released in Winter 1963, this classic song quickly raced up the charts, & peaked at No. 5 on the Top 40. Jan Berry was a whiz in the studio .. the original production of this song featured 18 background vocal overdubs .. count 'em .. 18.
@eazzye6 The song was probably about a 1963 split window coupe Stingray - and they couldn't find one for this video - so they used a more recent corvette. Google pics of the 1963 coupe and you'll see how cool 6 tail lights were :D
Yes, too bad the vintage tin and glass wasn't used for this...and the original vinyl cut was better even if it was "garage oriented." I've been to the famous crossing of Sunset and Doheny, Abbey Road and Times Square, but of all 3, Sunset & Doheny took me back in a time travel 4 wheel rocket-style.
yeah, or an 85. They both have black painted centers. My 84 has black metal covers over the lug nuts, and my 85 has black plastic lug nut covers. Its one or the other though.
@alex73ification this Corvette in the video sort of resembles a 1990 ZR-1, which still had the thin black belt line and the more angular nose than the 1991+ models had, but it had the rounded rear bumper and smaller square-ish tail lights of the 91-96. This car doesn't have the top mounted 3rd brake light or the correct wheels (these are for an 84-85) for a ZR-1, though. You can buy that type of ZR-1 bumper, aftermarket for an 84/85. Thats what this one looks like to me, anyway.
made a typo on the spelling about the ray, I know 76 was the last year cuz my little bro is driving my 76 sting-ray,all options including teloscop stering coluemaround so dakota,and i still say thats a 84 in the vid.
That new vette has four tailights, not the six in the song. Not a good represenation of how 16 year olds (! was at the time the song came out) remember the song!! The jag is a pig 2 + 2, not the true convert XKE.
Actually Dorf, this Jag is not a 2+2. It's a coupe, and a true roadster E -Type wouldn't have windows to roll down anyway, like in the song. You can tell it's not a 2+2 by the shortness of the window and door, and the slope the rear-end angles downward at.
The origianal is the standard by which a song is mesured, while I like much of blink 182s music, it lacks the fullness of the vocals, and goes to fast, they attempt but it does not compare by far.
CreepyCrawlyCat - I would go further than that and say Pet Sounds is the finest album ever. I hated it when I first heard it because It was just so unlike any Beach Boys music I had heard, and my pre- conditioned mind could'nt make sence of it. Now I absolutely love it, and have done for years.
yea and one of the Beach Boys was afraid to surf. It was Brian Wilsson, the man who wrote most of their songs. He even wrote some songs for Jan & Dean.
Actually only one Beach Boy was a surfer. I think Denny but am not sure. Brian worked a lot with Jan and Dean. Dean Torrence was a mentor to Mike and really taught him about producing records. By the end of his career Brian was consider one of the best producers of all time. Dean was very highly respected as a producer too.
Funny thing about Jan & Dean and The Beach Boys is that the suffers of that era really didn't listen to them - the surfers of that era were more into rock.
I know of only a very few places like that anymore one ahs a cruve that is almost 90 degress it is very difficult to get around it but it can be done because i ahve done it!
I don't like the Blink version. and Verdoux007 is right, Kids today... A great deal of songs today are remakes of old classic songs and people just don't know it.
@187ciFTW most of the songs back then where just remake of themselves it wasnt until later on that they actually started progressing from the same chord progressions and drum loops
when america was real...english was our language...the illegal immigrants didnt flood the streets, the nation supported our military...schools werent teaching children its totally normal to be a homosexual, welfare wasnt around, the streets were safe, america was real, america was real, america was real!
if we all unite, we can take our country back to where it should. the land of the free and the home of the brave
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s67parks 3 weeks ago
The most popular body mod on Southern California Stingrays (especially 1963 to 1965 was to remove the backup- lights; replace them with tailights and then add 2 more inlight inboard next to the licence plate - giving a total of 3 per side = "6 tailights" I even still have a copy of the magazines "Speed and Custom" outling how to do this without even needing a new paint job!!
kenimisoncanada 3 weeks ago 2
id take old then new any day
firdlover12 4 weeks ago
I've always wondered why the song says "all the Jag could see was my 6 taillights" . Correct me if I'm wrong , but I can't think of any Vette that ever came with 6 taillights.
Junglemon1 4 weeks ago
@Junglemon1... I think owners icould buy a set with two additional back lights that could be mounted next to the original lights. That makes 3 at each side. I don't know the reason, I can imagine that it had to do with 'being a look-a-like' Ferrari or other 6 tail lights car
HenriMusicBox 4 weeks ago
@HenriMusicBox 63 to 67 vetts had 2 lites each side, as you know....there was a custom kit available as an after market custom addition that had an extra lite. They were referred to as 'California tail lights'. or a "California kit" It was the most common customizing done in the day.
stuicide1 2 days ago
@Junglemon1 The six taillights was a customized job some would install.
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young68th 4 days ago
@Junglemon1 Hi. I think '63 Vette had 6 tail lights.
conuregirl007 3 days ago
went racing on dead mans curve in my toyota prius... easily beat a dodge charger
rayray66 1 month ago
@rayray66 You go dude! That's just too amazing. Have you tried a VW Bug? Thanks for the smile.
debbiedamooseful 1 month ago
@rayray66
Yeah a 78 charger but that guy had a better ride and an 8 track
Lumotaku 3 weeks ago
I swear I actually replayed this race for real one night with a Lincoln Town Car vs. a Jag x type. Going up Essington Ave it was all good till the light at 67th street. I checked up, the jag tried to take the curve into Passyunk Ave. Result???? Same as the song. Jag bounced off the wall & into the oil refinery fence.... Jag loses again.
WALTERBROADDUS 2 months ago
@WALTERBROADDUS nice
829012 3 weeks ago in playlist 829012's fav songs condensed version
@829012 What can I say, I was a fast limo driver. And smart enough try a 90 degree curve at 80 mph. Needless to say did not stick around. Lincoln Town car top speed for the curious? 110 mph limit by the computer.
WALTERBROADDUS 3 weeks ago
The Jag must of had a chevy engine in it.
Karlpetry 2 months ago
And whats up with the Idea with the rubber chicken?
MLarson01 3 months ago
@MLarson01 probably to represent that the guy he was taunting was a chicken... They were being silly!
MCPrincess1995 2 months ago
what year do you think that vette was??
MLarson01 3 months ago
@MLarson01 i saw the same thing its supposed to be an older version in the song butt this is a c4 made in the 80's thats a huge video flaw
westonator6 2 months ago
@westonator6
He says hes crusing in his stingray thats an earlys 60 corvette that had a shitload of horse power. I don't know the date of this video but I don't think thats a corvette zr1
Lumotaku 3 weeks ago
I LOVE Jan and Dean. I love the classic cars and they sang some wonderful songs about them. I love Drag City too. Their songs make me very happy. They were beautiful together. Thanks guys.
josh95952 3 months ago
The reason the Jag pulled into the curve and the Stingray couldn't was because the Jag had a rubber chicken in the passenger seat. The extra 2 ounces allowed for better weight distribution.
knguyen406 3 months ago
I've heard that stupid anti-Corvette/pro-Corvette fight over and over again so many times it makes me ill. People will like the cars they like.. No need for personal insults. Variety is what makes the world go round. I can appreciate all sorts of cars: Muscle cars, Corvettes, Mustangs, '50s cars, European sports cars, Cobras, and lots of others.. Corvettes are my favorite, and I've owned one (a '65), but I don't think that anyone who dislikes Corvettes is a moron (just unenlightened :-) )
epf1961 3 months ago
its funny because its a porsche and vette
TerribleThree 4 months ago
@TerribleThree thats a late 60s early 70s Jag XKE not a porsche it kinda looks like a 911 in the rear though
maverick1128 4 months ago
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@TerribleThree thats a late 60s early 70s Jag XKE not a porsche it kinda looks like a 911 in the rear though
maverick1128 4 months ago
that aint no Stingray
Sodiumreactor 5 months ago
This was a great song and it almost took the life of jan berry he was never the same RIp Jan Berry
joelimanoldiekapner 5 months ago
1960's American Stingray couldn't corner? Shocker. Did not see that coming. Skinny tires while in a high speed turn, not a winning formula on 'Deadmans Curve'. Thousand bucks says Deadman's Curve is a flat turn 30mph zone, not banked in the slightest bit.
RacerXGTO 5 months ago
It's not the curve's fault, it's the drivers fault. The moment you disrespect the curve, the curve disrespects you.
RacerXGTO 5 months ago
It was Jan Berry who was respected as a record producer NOT Dean Torence. Brain Wilson and Jan Berry learned a great deal from each other record wise, this according to Brian hisself. . The Beach Boys and Jan and Dean were all friends and sang background on each others records when ever possable. Dean sings on the BB song BARBRA ANNE just to name one. Sorry I dont like this cover it s insulting to Jan Berry AND to Jan and Dean.
rockinrobintweets 6 months ago
vettes are a rich mans toy... aka people that are to scared to turn a wrench and/or get dirty.
silverado271 6 months ago
@silverado271 No they're not!! My dad bought one in 1990(still has it) and my family isnt rich by any means!! I own a tire shop in my home town and my dad and I both, arent affraid to get dirty!! Your barking up the wrong tree kid!!!
nickthastick 6 months ago
@nickthastick i dont give a god damn if your rich daddy owns a corvette or not. there peices of shit. and i doubt you or your daddy even know how to work on the damn thing.. If your daddy knew what performance WAS he wouldnt have got a vette to begin with. ...call me kid, what are you 13? I'be built more motors than you have pubes. ope!! go hurry! count them just to make sure! ... fuck off your moms callin u for dinner.
silverado271 6 months ago
@silverado271 Go fuck yourself asshole!! In 1988, same year your mom was arrested for prostitution, the vette was cheap and fast, like your mom!!! If you ever talk to me like that on the internet again, i will look up your mom and slap her across the face for making you such a duche bag!!! Fuck off prick!!!
nickthastick 6 months ago
@nickthastick that was fuckin hilarious. ...your allright Nick.
silverado271 6 months ago
@silverado271 Thank you sir, your not to bad yourself. I dont see the vette as a rich mans car. My dad has had two jobs his entire life and it pisses me off to hear people talk trash about american sports cars.... its not the greatest car by any strech, but it always puts a smile on your face when you drive it!! Thats all you can ask for in a 23 year old car!!
nickthastick 6 months ago
@nickthastick ill respect what you say about the corvette.. i understand that not all vettes are owned my rich people.. and they are fun to drive.. its just.. my list is entirely to long to explain as to why i hate corvettes.. but as long as they stay in the class as you said "sports car" and not a "hotrod" ill keep me mouth shut.
silverado271 5 months ago
@silverado271 My opinion, the last vette that was a "muscle car" was probably the 67 with the 427, or the 63 split window with the ZO6 option!! Even then, they still weren't that fast. Im partial to Pontiac, my dad is a bowtie fan. I could go on for days about both, but muscle cars are supposed to be loud and obnoxious, thats why people (including me) love them. Still wish i had my Trans Am.
nickthastick 5 months ago
I love corvetts own 2 bought my first one in 1968 still have it
FlyboyLWB 6 months ago
is that Peter Cetera in the XKE?
herbalist110377 8 months ago
Jan & Dean belong in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
They had many hits, fans and helped to create sounds that were legendary.
J&D and the Beach Boys created the California surf sound that helped to define the 1960's.
I shake my head at some of the acts already in the Hall.
Many did not do half of what Jan & Dean did.
George Vreeland Hill
GeorgeVreelandHill 8 months ago 23
@GeorgeVreelandHill I totally agree that they belong in the rock and roll hall of fame. Is there a way that we create a way to help make it a reality,
JOEYISAPAYNE 4 months ago
@GeorgeVreelandHill Well said
kolchack55 4 months ago
In reality, in a straight line, the Stingray would most likely taken the Jag. When they got to "the curve" the dead man would have been driving the 'vette, as any petrol head worth anything knows, they couldn't corner or stop for shit...
54MURAI 8 months ago 2
@54MURAI Yeah! but this was about a Drag race, perhaps the guy in the Jag. Shoulda just kept his mouth shut.
whodoneit9723 2 weeks ago
This must have been filmed in my neighborhood. We've got traffic lights that long, too.
shoutabyss 8 months ago
9 People didn't come back from dead man's curve
54martinoo 9 months ago
drag racing sucks. idiots kill themselves
defenderoFreedom 9 months ago
He choking his chicken,.
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mollysangelique 10 months ago
Cocky the Rubber Chicken of Seattle is way cooler than that rubber chicken, I can tell you that! HB X HC Forever!
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mollysangelique 10 months ago
No Stingray
rlbentley69 10 months ago
One of them was injured in an auto accident. When they went on tour they had to lip sync.
colts1948 11 months ago
That chokin' the chicken cracks me up! Jan and Dean had a lot of good tunes in their day. How about someone throwing some my way?
1qaz2wsx3edc5753 11 months ago
These people copied blink-182's song!!!
Kenny2k08 11 months ago
@Kenny2k08 are you serious?
24liam24 11 months ago
@Kenny2k08 are you that fucking retarded?
testnumberone1 11 months ago
@Kenny2k08 im a blink fan and i must say your fucked in the head -.- yes a band from like the 60's stole from a band of the 2000's ...idiot
CVcivilrights 11 months ago
@CVcivilrights lol it's funny how people can't tell I'm trolling. I'm starting to question everyone's intelligence for taking that comment seriously hahaha
Kenny2k08 11 months ago
@Kenny2k08 why bother trolling that is the epitome of de-evolution within itself.
CVcivilrights 10 months ago
@CVcivilrights I just wanted to see if anyone would actually fall for it lmao
Kenny2k08 10 months ago
Great song from the 60's
jbibb66 11 months ago
"Slick Jimmy Don Clyde - Undefeated Drag Racer" et al.
arbmust 1 year ago
When he says my mills ruin fine whut does that mean im a young gun so ya but i love this type of music today stuff is not the bees knees
tank2449 1 year ago
Dude Jan and Dean are the shit. I can' believe I didn't know them before
frenkiebeats 1 year ago
Dude only has four tail lights shoulda used an older vette
laughs321 1 year ago
ahahahahaha that guy in the jags a tool whoi carries a rubber chicken?
Codymkay1 1 year ago
Places to play: A park,a swimming pool,miniature golf,Six Flags,the beach & even your own backyard. Notice that Dead Mans Curve does NOT appear on that list.
themitch1966 1 year ago
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This is shit compared to blink thumbs up if u agree
MACBETH652 1 year ago
I agree with you on the feel it was very well done on the same note.
Did you know that the corvette with 6 tail lights that was built in 1962 ,was actually 2 taillights and one back up light?
MsAutobodyman 1 year ago
note the vette in the video an 80's car not 60's that wasn't a stingray
MsAutobodyman 1 year ago
@MsAutobodyman What can you say, it was a low budget production. It still gives you the feel though of what they were singing about though. I wanted to remake this video with my 2003 Z06 corvette but I knew everyone would rip it apart the same way.
Did you also notice this version was recorded one semitone higher?
funny0000000 1 year ago
@MsAutobodyman And the Series 1 Jag (I think the headlights are hooded) is 'brand new.' Must be a Stephen Spielberg thing here...
HickysBoy 8 months ago
I dig Jan & Dean and most of their music. This video is a slap in the face to them.
Could the fellow who put that thing together find two more fruitier guys to portray
the racers?
nixjag1 1 year ago
Did I see the guy in the Jag choke his chicken?
maxinebootie 1 year ago
Wow that's dean torrence in this vid isn't it? Cool!
gforce4all 1 year ago
All the Jag could se was my 6, I mean 4 tail lights. lol always a good song even with modern vette :)
ztwntyn8 1 year ago
the jag crashed not the stingray
StrongLadiesMan217 1 year ago
Good old Dean Torrence! Kidding around as usual. I love his corny but humorous introduction to this song! Actually, the version of "Deadman's Curve" that plays in the video is not the original hit recording from 1964 in which Jan Berry sang lead. I believe this version is a re-recorded version from the 70's which featured Dean singing leads and some backgrounds as well. Good stuff though!
mrderekevan 1 year ago
@mrderekevan Lets face it . Jan was the man Dean just cant produce it as well.
ngnnick1967 1 year ago
@ngnnick1967 True. Dean couldn't produce as well. In my opnion, he couldn't sing or write as well as Jan either, although I did like his falsetto and some of his lead vocals. I'm still a huge fan of both guys though, and always will be. Certainly beats most of the music that comes out today. Well, except for my music. My music's great! The boys down at the plant love my music! (LOL. Inside joke).
mrderekevan 1 year ago
Buckle up and watch for flashing lights!
fluffydanny 1 year ago
that shit is so old
TheGuyFromBulgaria 1 year ago
That's why you shouldn't race, you could not only hurt yourself, but you could hurt someone else.
SphinxFriend 1 year ago
@SphinxFriend But racing is fun. The thrill of hauling ass is fun. =]
th3und34d0wn 1 year ago
@th3und34d0wn u said theeeee *A* word im telling u ass whole
minerboy45 1 year ago
R.I.P. Jan.
Cyberella1000 1 year ago
"I flew past LaBrea, Schwab's, and Crescent Heights
And all the Jag could see were my six taillights"
It was a popular customizing idea to add an extra tail light to each side of the '63 to '67 Corvette Sting Ray, giving it 6 tail lights. It looked cool and was a cheap way to customize the car.
MrMike3865 1 year ago
It appears as a C4 'Vette' racing a modified XKE: notice what appears to be radius wheel wells... It might have been a V-8 conversion or something.
I've driven both (Vette '96) and the Jag (1966) which the latter is definitely a more fine EU type of performer. While a C4 does it all everywhere! Thank you for this posting. NOTE: I still have the Vette...
buckdowner 1 year ago
What a challenging song, "Dead Man's Curve"!!!
It was a hit song for Jan & Dean in 1964. Eerily, it was to almost become their banner song in real life. Jan Berry's horrific Corvette car crash in 1966, near to the real Dead Man's Curve in southern California, impacted both his and Dean Torrence's lives.
The Jan Berry Center of southern CA is devoted to Jan's desire to succeed in life despite a traumatic brain injury.
Right up to their final performance in 2004, they remained friends. RIP
hellgate67 1 year ago 8
@hellgate67 Yes, they were true friends from high school untill Jan s death. I never had a brain injury but I was born with 2 disabilities in 1955 so Jan is a person who blessed my life with music AND became a person who inspired me when he came back on the stage aftr haveing to deal with his own disabilities. . Even with his limitations Jan went on stage and sang HE SHOWED THEM. . And Dean bless his heart understood the meaning of REAL friendship. I miss Jan . Rock on Dean. RIP my sweet Jan
rockinrobintweets 6 months ago
@hellgate67 Yes, Dean was a True friend to Jan that didnt change after the accindent and Dean deserves lots of respect for that alone. Jan, well....he showed THEM. Yes, you can be disabled and still do what you love . Maybe it s not easey but who says life is easey... Jan is my heroe and mentor / inspiration. Rock on dear Dean. RIP my sweet Jan.
rockinrobintweets 5 months ago
so this is what stan was talking about on the bridge
thecastman97 1 year ago
This is not the originally-released, authentic version of this great song. However, when released in Winter 1963, this classic song quickly raced up the charts, & peaked at No. 5 on the Top 40. Jan Berry was a whiz in the studio .. the original production of this song featured 18 background vocal overdubs .. count 'em .. 18.
colindominy 1 year ago
they should have used a old vette. they took the time to find the jag. and actualy race them, instead of speeding up the tape.
flatheadman1 1 year ago
Not the original so..............
rgolaf 1 year ago
Is that Stacey David in the Vette?
melsgtp 1 year ago
the rubber chicken........ wasn't optional!
gino066 1 year ago
GOOD JOB!!
fiwaszewski 1 year ago
Should have been a 1963 Corvette, not a 1986 one.
madcapromanian 1 year ago
when he says "and all the jag could see were my 6 taillights" shouldnt it be 4.....
eazzye6 1 year ago
@eazzye6 The song was probably about a 1963 split window coupe Stingray - and they couldn't find one for this video - so they used a more recent corvette. Google pics of the 1963 coupe and you'll see how cool 6 tail lights were :D
MrPinksBane 1 year ago
@eazzye6 A popular mod to stingrays was to have to two more brake lights "glassed" in.
blownSS06 1 year ago
It's not the original and it's just not the same
rgolaf 1 year ago
its gay to put a "modern vette" with a classic XKE at least get a freakin' 'RAY at the lights!
MontrealMan1970 1 year ago
why was he choking the chicken? :P lol
clifgreen3 1 year ago
@clifgreen3 CAUSE IT FEELS GOOD.
MontrealMan1970 1 year ago
Yes, too bad the vintage tin and glass wasn't used for this...and the original vinyl cut was better even if it was "garage oriented." I've been to the famous crossing of Sunset and Doheny, Abbey Road and Times Square, but of all 3, Sunset & Doheny took me back in a time travel 4 wheel rocket-style.
TBCSTARS 1 year ago
El himno de las carreras callejeras.
a1f16 1 year ago
The E-type is my favorite all time best looking car.
My wife minivan does 0-60 in under 7. It's a stupid minivan. Who would have thought.
I want an E-type.
pef286 2 years ago
well he actually had a really bad accident
breznev64 2 years ago
@breznev64 It was Jan Berry that had the accident not the one in this video which is Dean Torrence.
1959buddyh 2 years ago
Is that Al Gore at the beginning?
gavrilo2007 2 years ago
atualy its an 85, 84s had diff tail lights
alex73ification 2 years ago
@alex73ification My 84 and 85 Corvettes have the exact same tail lights. They all had the same tail lights from 84 to 90.
drtyfknmouth 1 year ago
the video shows wheel covers on an 84 corvette.
acorn2503 1 year ago
yeah, or an 85. They both have black painted centers. My 84 has black metal covers over the lug nuts, and my 85 has black plastic lug nut covers. Its one or the other though.
drtyfknmouth 1 year ago
@alex73ification this Corvette in the video sort of resembles a 1990 ZR-1, which still had the thin black belt line and the more angular nose than the 1991+ models had, but it had the rounded rear bumper and smaller square-ish tail lights of the 91-96. This car doesn't have the top mounted 3rd brake light or the correct wheels (these are for an 84-85) for a ZR-1, though. You can buy that type of ZR-1 bumper, aftermarket for an 84/85. Thats what this one looks like to me, anyway.
drtyfknmouth 1 year ago
made a typo on the spelling about the ray, I know 76 was the last year cuz my little bro is driving my 76 sting-ray,all options including teloscop stering coluemaround so dakota,and i still say thats a 84 in the vid.
mplsfarmerjon 2 years ago
Ahhh.. Jan and Dean. The ulimate Lip Sync'ers. Brittany, you got some learning to do.
ozskipper 2 years ago
Wow, you don't find too many of those rare Jags with the optional rubber chicken!
quirpco 2 years ago 34
@quirpco LOL!!!!!!!!!! Hot looking Jag though!!
Mikes66442 1 year ago
blink cover sounds good 2
zielkebros4 2 years ago
This is not the original hit and not as good.
rgolaf 2 years ago
My Porsche 944 Just laughed!
miamaz 2 years ago
they quit making Sting-rats in 1976,this vette is at least a 84
mplsfarmerjon 2 years ago
Sting Rays were produced from 1963-1967. They returned in1969-1976 but were Stingrays.(one word)..
olskoolkid 2 years ago
awesome song. blink 182 covered this pretty well. but this is still better.
okgo43 2 years ago
DEAD MAN'S CURVE is right at UCLA curve at Loyal Marymount school accross the street stoplight.......the curve going west just b4 the stoplight.....
CHUCKLOVES1969 2 years ago
That new vette has four tailights, not the six in the song. Not a good represenation of how 16 year olds (! was at the time the song came out) remember the song!! The jag is a pig 2 + 2, not the true convert XKE.
spiffledorf 2 years ago
Actually Dorf, this Jag is not a 2+2. It's a coupe, and a true roadster E -Type wouldn't have windows to roll down anyway, like in the song. You can tell it's not a 2+2 by the shortness of the window and door, and the slope the rear-end angles downward at.
ZAGJAG 2 years ago
blink 182's much better
aznshortguy 2 years ago
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manga12 2 years ago
i agree
elitewarelephant 2 years ago
i still perfer the Blink-182 cover.
crazi4BLINK182 2 years ago
The origianal is the standard by which a song is mesured, while I like much of blink 182s music, it lacks the fullness of the vocals, and goes to fast, they attempt but it does not compare by far.
manga12 2 years ago
CreepyCrawlyCat - I would go further than that and say Pet Sounds is the finest album ever. I hated it when I first heard it because It was just so unlike any Beach Boys music I had heard, and my pre- conditioned mind could'nt make sence of it. Now I absolutely love it, and have done for years.
I85PIES 2 years ago
HAHA
BJORT 2 years ago
yea and one of the Beach Boys was afraid to surf. It was Brian Wilsson, the man who wrote most of their songs. He even wrote some songs for Jan & Dean.
sliqdude2000 2 years ago
Actually only one Beach Boy was a surfer. I think Denny but am not sure. Brian worked a lot with Jan and Dean. Dean Torrence was a mentor to Mike and really taught him about producing records. By the end of his career Brian was consider one of the best producers of all time. Dean was very highly respected as a producer too.
JohnB1948Six 2 years ago
jono tinker ur the gay...u dont know a damn thing about dead mans curve...only the surfers know about this
rockertitser 2 years ago
Funny thing about Jan & Dean and The Beach Boys is that the suffers of that era really didn't listen to them - the surfers of that era were more into rock.
svosrt 2 years ago
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blink 182s version of this song is like 400 times better
ROCKIT94 2 years ago
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advres 2 years ago
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you are a fucking idiot
advres 2 years ago
this song actualy took place in penslivainia its exactualy the place on the dot
axeduck17 2 years ago
Actually this song was about a turn in Los Angeles which has since been widened:
All streets in Los Angeles:
I flew past LaBrea, Schwab's, and Crescent Heights
svosrt 2 years ago
Sunset Blvd. and Westwood Plaza.
longdong9876 2 years ago
I know of only a very few places like that anymore one ahs a cruve that is almost 90 degress it is very difficult to get around it but it can be done because i ahve done it!
dead man's cruve!
eleventhdr 2 years ago
FWIW the video clips of the C4 and jag are from blink 182's version of this song
pdennis93 2 years ago
You got it backwards. Blink 182 copied those clips from the Jan & Dean video.
Kids today, *sigh*.
Verdoux007 2 years ago 51
I wasn't aware that Jan and dead made a video for deadmans curve. I wonder why they used a C4 instead of a real stingray.
I am no kid. i'm 30, lol. And i saw Jan and Dean in concert back in 1992.
pdennis93 2 years ago
I don't like the Blink version. and Verdoux007 is right, Kids today... A great deal of songs today are remakes of old classic songs and people just don't know it.
187ciFTW 2 years ago
@187ciFTW most of the songs back then where just remake of themselves it wasnt until later on that they actually started progressing from the same chord progressions and drum loops
abelikesgurls 1 year ago
@Verdoux007 Hahaha if it makes you feel better, at the beginning of the Blink-182 version, Tom jokingly says Jan & Dean demo, take 1.
hellstar1221 1 year ago
@Verdoux007 blink didnt copy dude...y'ever heard of a cover? they included videos for their cover.
BurnAfterEating 1 year ago
@Verdoux007
they didnt copy the clips tard, lol.
some random dude did, Blink were singing this song for a tv show and never made a music vid for it, lonely grown ups today *sigh*
theownshow 1 year ago
LOL! Is that Peter Cetera in the yellow car?
Steve197201 2 years ago
Lesson #1: Don't be a stupid driver. Go back to driving school..
LETS KEEP OUR PUBLIC ROADWAY SAFE!!
ajdonabed 3 years ago
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this is gay.
jimet409 3 years ago
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super gay.
Jonotinker 2 years ago
we don't wanna hear your confessions
ajdonabed 2 years ago
I was cruisin' in my Stingray late one night
When an XKE pulled up on the right
And rolled down the window of his shiny new Jag
And challenged me then and there to a drag
I said, "you're on, buddy, my mill's runnin' fine
1989cobras 3 years ago
Let's come off the line, now, at Sunset and Vine
But I'll go you one better if you've got the nerve
Let's race all the way
To Dead Man's Curve"
Chorus:
Dead Man's Curve, it's no place to play
Dead Man's Curve, you must keep away
Dead Man's Curve, I can hear 'em say:
"Won't come back from Dead Man's Curve"
1989cobras 3 years ago
The street was deserted late Friday night
We were buggin' each other while we sat out the light
We both popped the clutch when the light turned green
You shoulda heard the whine from my screamin' machine
I flew past LaBrea, Schwab's, and Crescent Heights
And all the Jag could see were my six taillights
He passed me at Doheny then I started to swerve
But I pulled her out and there we were
At Dead Man's Curve
1989cobras 3 years ago
Partial chorus:
Dead Man's Curve, it's no place to play
Dead Man's Curve
Dramatic interlude:
Well - the last thing I remember, Doc, I started to swerve
And then I saw the Jag slide into the curve
I know I'll never forget that horrible sight
I guess I found out for myself that everyone was right
"Won't come back from Dead Man's Curve"
1989cobras 3 years ago
is there a dead mans curve?
baldie194859 3 years ago
There's alot of dead mans curves, it's just a local name for a really sharp curve
nacoline 3 years ago
LOL, yeah a late model Vette. Still a cool video and song though.
NewDirection4us 3 years ago
i like the blink-182 version better
ThomasMarkTravis 3 years ago
Is the fellow in the yellow jaguar David Duke?
novice8814 3 years ago
WOW !!!!
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Antipolicestate 3 years ago
Hey no fair using new technology - that's clearly a later Vette and not a Stingray, mean-looking Jag there with the flared arches too
CycolacFan 3 years ago