You never know someone's misinterpretation of rock music lyrics until they sing 'em out loud.

One day, my sister and I were driving Downriver, and when we passed Sibley I called out the old ad line for the Dragway.

She was shocked. For years she thought it was "Simply at Dix."


Made sense to a girl who'd witnessed the drag racing on Telegraph Road through Dearborn and Redford during her formative years...LOL!


I've never been, but we went to the Flatrock Speedway to see the Figure 8 races one time with a fellow my mother used to date from her AA group. He was a hoot, with one of those old Monte Carlo's with the round headlights...which he let me drive home from the races! In retrospect, I suspect he was drunk, so yielding the keys to a fourteen year-old might've been his best choice.

But I suspect those two are almost the most diametrically-opposed forms of car racing, at least geometrically. I've never been able to appreciate straight-line acceleration racing alone...the Figure 8 was a much more appropriate approximation of everyday driving!


Cheers