5 Of The Coolest Cars In 1980s Music Videos


The Love Shack is a little ol’ place where we can get together, but to actually get there, you need a proper set of wheels. That place is in the middle of nowhere, so you’re not walking to it. Luckily, the members of the B-52’s knew how to travel in style in the “Love Shack” music video, cruising the backroads in a 1965 Chrysler 300 Convertible.

The lyrics of the song go, “I’ve got me a car, it’s as big as a whale,” and “I’ve got me a Chrysler, it seats about twenty.” That’s perhaps a bit of an exaggeration, but the 300 was still pretty hefty. The 300 could comfortably seat around four passengers, plus the driver, and the large, flat trunk also doubled as a sturdy platform for the rear passengers to sit on and flail their arms around to the beat.

Some fans have speculated that the car that’s “as big as a whale” being alluded to in the song is actually a different Chrysler; Jason Torchinsky of Jalopnik believes the vehicle in question is the 1954 Chrysler Crown Imperial, a massive production vehicle with enough seating to comfortably haul around 15 people. Maybe the B-52’s could’ve brought that car to the Love Shack, but they needed to save some cash for jukebox money.


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