Can you believe that we’re almost halfway through November?! This year is just flying by, one weekend at a time. As I do every weekend, I’ve written a new installment of Car Connections. I picked three US Top 40 singles for the week ending November 19, 1966, and somehow managed to relate those to automobiles. Those songs are “If I Were a Carpenter” by Bobby Darin (#9), “A Hazy Shade of Winter” by Simon and Garfunkel (#23), and “Louie, Louie” by The Sandpipers (#32). You’ll see how I connected those songs to Chevrolet, GMC, and Checker, but how would you associate them with cars? Tell us in the Comments section below. (And click here for more Car Games!)

“If I Were a Carpenter”: Wood. The floors of the C6 Corvette Z06’s passenger compartment consisted of a carbon fiber skin wrapped around a lightweight balsa wood core. That meant less weight for the 505-horsepower LS7 7.0-liter V-8 to haul around.

“A Hazy Shade of Winter”: This makes me think of another song: “Valley Winter Song” by Fountains of Wayne. That leads me to Wayne, Indiana, which is the home of a GM plant that produces the GMC Sierra 1500. The 2027 model is available with all-new 5.7-liter and 6.6-liter small-block V-8s, the latter of which tops out at 481 horsepower and 501 lb-ft of torque.

“Louie, Louie”: What great timing! I was just listening to an interview with Danny DeVito, who starred as Louie De Palma in the 1978-1983 TV show “Taxi,” a hit sitcom that featured Checker A11 cabs.

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