[SamAdams76]

[Pelham]

Heard it often enough, never knew the name of the song until now.

[ETL]

Sniffing the driver’s seat?

[ifinnegan]

Cool memories of your teenage alcoholic days!

Where’d you live in NE? Why Hampton Beach NH?

[ETL]

'79 Camaro

[Laslo Fripp]

If you want to start a hopeless discussion, ask 10 New Englanders who serves the best fried clams? You’ll get 15 answers.

[LostInBayport]

Very memorable song that has always stayed with me. I had one of those record compliations back then (K-tel?) and this song was on it. I may still have that album somewhere, but have nothing on which to play it!

[untenured]

The first concert I ever saw was The Knack, nearly one-hit wonders themselves.

I knew a girl who, somehow, owned not a Camaro but the superior Trans-Am. Bird of prey painted on the hood and everything.

[I-ambush]

My college roommate bought this album and played it constantly. The rest of the record is actually pretty good. We saw them when they toured after it came out.

[Billthedrill]

Yeah, I remember that one. Long time now, long time. About to leave the Navy, dropped my butt in Silicon Valley and it was a rocket ride from then on out. Good times.

[wjcsux]

The YouTube video (extended version) is awesome! Hot cars and hot women.

[Revel]

If I said “Rock 80” would you have any idea what I was talking about?

[CaliforniaCraftBeer]

[Windflier]

"Driver's Seat" by an obscure British band called Sniff 'n' the Tears.

I was 26 at the time, and a huge rock fan, but I don't remember this song at all.

Maybe it didn't get much airplay on the west coast.

[gigster]

I believe the Van Halen debut album came out in 1979. My buddy Mark and I used to cruise Gratiot Avenue in the greater Detroit area for hour and miles in his 1976 Firebird Formula listening in awe to Eddie Van Halen’s groundbreaking sonic assault on the old, conventional music of the day.

[freedomjusticeruleoflaw]

Worst band name in history.

[Windflier]

Alright...I looked it up on YouTube, and yeah, I remember the song.

It wasn’t a ‘turn it up to eleven’ type of song back then - what with Van Halen and so many other American pop/rock/funk groups tearing it up. This song was sort of filler music for me.

[Billthedrill]

And by the way, this is one of those songs that it's highly inadvisable to listen to when you're in your car and there's a long, empty straight ahead. Radar Love is another. So is Steppin' Into The Twilight Zone. And LA Woman. And If You Don't Start Drinkin'. Blew a rental car's speakers out with the last one one time on the Pacific Coast highway.

[Romulus]

I was driving around New England in the summer of 79. Never heard this song.

[FreeReign]

That backup singer with the sunglasses was cool...until he had to readjust them at 2:14.

[MuttTheHoople]

Meridian, Mississippi, summer before my senior year. Hitting on girls at the Carrousel Skate Center......driving up and down 8th street between the Sonic and College Park Mall....buying Champale and hoping I didn’t get carded.......good times.