[19th LA Inf]

I have always loved that song. Sometime back in the early 1950s, an automotive writer named Tom McCahill wrote that the composer, Vincent Youmans, used to race the Super Chief “from Chicago to L.A.” in his Lincoln Continental. Always wished I could try that.

[dfwgator]

Bobby Troup (from Emergency!, and real life husband of Julie London) wrote the song.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Tom McCahill was the real deal.
I recall seeing a film clip of him in a Chrysler Imperial, doing about 110 in a oval race course.
The clip shows him with one hand on the wheel, the other hand holding a lighter to ignite his cigar.