Little Deuce Coupe

Beach Boys

A Deuce Coupe is a slang term for a 1932 Ford passenger car in coupe form. A coupe is a car body type with two doors and a fixed roof, but the word "coupe" has even older roots from the days of the horse-drawn buggy and means a carriage designed for two passengers and a driver. In more modern times, a coupe body style is further differentiated from a two-door sedan as having no integral door frame surrounding its window, but at the time of the 1932 Ford, doors without integrated window frames (a body style called a hardtop) had not been invented. https://www.motortrend.com/features/what-is-a-deuce-coupe


Little deuce coupe
You don't know what I got
Little deuce coupe
You don't know what I got

Well, I'm not bragging babe, so don't put me down
But I've got the fastest set of wheels in town
When something comes up to me, he don't even try
'Cause if I had a set of wings, man I know she could fly
She's my little deuce coupe
You don't know what I got

Just a little deuce coupe with a [flathead https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_flathead_V8_engine] mill
But she'll walk a Thunderbird like she's standing still
She's ported and relieved, and she's stroked and bored
She'll do a hundred and forty with the top end floored
She's my little deuce coupe
You don't know what I got

She's got a competition clutch with the four on the floor
And she purrs like a kitten 'til the lake pipes roar
And if that ain't enough to make you flip your lid
There's one more thing, I got the pink slip, daddy

And coming off the line when the light turns green
Well, she blows them out of the water like you never seen
I get pushed out of shape, and it's hard to steer
When I get rubber in all four gears
She's my little deuce coupe
You don't know what I got

She's my little deuce coupe
You don't know what I got
She's my little deuce coupe
You don't know what I got
Flathead Mill - Increased compression ratios could be cheaply obtained by milling material from the head or by obtaining aluminum heads as aftermarket parts.
Walk a Thunderbird - Win a race against a Thunderbird
Ported - The passages in the head where the air flows have been opened up
Relieved - The wall surfaces of the combustion chamber have been relieved where the valves are for better flow.
Stroked - The crankshaft has been reground to produce a longer stroke
Bored - The cylinders have been bored out, both for increased displacement
Competition Clutch
Four on the Floor
Lake pipes
Pink slip
Pushed out of shape
Get Rubber