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“She Has Funny Cars” is a psychedelic rock song by the band Jefferson Airplane. It is a collaboration between vocalist Marty Balin (lyrics) and guitarist Jorma Kaukonen (music). The song appeared as the opening track on their influential breakthrough album, Surrealistic Pillow - released in 1967. The song discusses materialism in American society. It has also been said that the song is about one of Spencer Dryden’s girlfriend’s “funny cars”. A funny car of the ’60s was a modified drag-strip stock car, usually of the current model year or close to it, that had been stripped of much of its chrome and other decorations, raked so either the front or back is tilted, and sported a motor of anywhere around 6,000 horsepower. While it is blended nicely, The Airplane’s baseline... Read on...