Detroit Jurassic Lyrics

Old Pontiac rolling down the road

Like a dying dinosaur

A wounded classic out of the past

Whose engine's lost its mighty roar

The sleek design of a bygone breed

Still alive for one more ride

A survivor in these changing times

Detroit Jurassic built with pride

Roll back the years to a golden age

Before cheap and foreign made

When dragster racing was all the rage

And leather jackets made the grade

Old Indian rattling up the road

In a battered Cherokee

He once was a weekend warrior

Now last stand with a broken knee

Life was muscle cars and lover's lanes

Drive-in theaters and hot rods

Cool were the rebels without a cause

Racing the clock to beat the odds

Whether 6 cylinder or V8

2.2 or 4 at best

We pushed production to cutting edge

And put the limits to the test

Old factory closing in our town

Laying off two-thousand men

We fade away into better days

To be remembered now and then

We fade away into yesterdays

Of time was and remember when