Sometimes a theme emerges in my weekly installment of Car Connections, such as the type of vehicle to which I link three words cranked out by the Random Word Generator. That didn’t happen this week because the following trio of cars is all over the place in terms of eras and designs. This week’s words are allowance, literature, and engineer. How would you associate these words with cars? Tell us in the Comments section below. (And click here for more Car Games!)

Allowance: A small amount of money. To go with the 840-horsepower 2018 Challenger SRT Demon, Dodge offered the Demon Crate, which contained Direct Connection Performance Parts such as front-runner drag wheels, powertrain control module calibrated for high-octane fuel, and performance air filter, as well as a variety of Demon-branded track tools. The price for all this? Just $1.

Literature: The first book that comes to mind is “The Great Gatsby,” F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 novel about a doomed romance set in the flash and excess of the Roaring Twenties. The narrator, Nick Carraway, befriends Jay Gatsby (born James Gatz) in the summer of 1922 and gets drawn into his orbit of lavish parties, tireless ambition, and the illusions of memories and appearances.

One of the things I love about the book is Fitzgerald’s vivid and poetic descriptions. In chapter three, Carraway mentions seeing Gatsby’s car — a Rolls-Royce, of course. “On week-ends his Rolls-Royce became an omnibus, bearing parties to and from the city, between nine in the morning and long past midnight.” In the next chapter, Carraway paints a picture of Gatsby’s car, which he openly admires: “It was a rich cream color, bright with nickel, swollen here and there in its monstrous length with triumphant hatboxes and supper-boxes and tool-boxes, and terraced with a labyrinth of windshields that mirrored a dozen suns. Sitting down behind many layers of glass in a sort of green leather conservatory we started to town.” Given that description and Gatsby’s “new money” status, I imagine Gatsby had a newer or brand-new Rolls, such as the 1922 Silver Ghost shown above.

Engineer: Electrical engineer. Power lines. Powerline, the popular singer (voiced by Tevin Campbell) in the 1995 Disney animated film “A Goofy Movie,” in which Goofy takes his son Max on a zany cross-country trip that brings them closer together.

The duo spends a lot of time on the road in Goofy’s hatchback, which looks a lot like an AMC Pacer, the “first wide small car” that was “trim overall” but had “the kind of room and comfort for four adults you’d expect in big intermediates like Chevelle, Torino and Fury — with actually more headroom and more rear leg room than any of them.”

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