If your brain is fried after the workweek, I’ve got great news—it’s time for another installment of Car Connections! You won’t have to figure out how three words from the Random Word Generator can possibly be linked to cars in some way because I’ll do all the thinking for you.
This week’s words are prosper, occupation, and first. I have to admit that these aren’t the most exciting options, but that makes them a little more challenging, so I’ll give them a shot. Here goes!
Prosper: The first thing that comes to mind is the quote “Live long and prosper” from Mr. Spock in the original “Star Trek” TV series, which also starred William Shatner. I could just stop at Shatner’s former 2011 Porsche Panamera Turbo, but I’ll go a couple of steps further. Shatner worked with one of my favorite musicians, Ben Folds, in the short-lived group known as Fear of Pop in the late 1990s, and Folds was the producer of Shatner’s 2004 album “Has Been.” In 2014, Acura and ELS Studio Premium Audio from Panasonic sponsored Folds’ Live Performances Tour. Long story short: Acura.
Occupation: Ford! Another word for occupation is job—and as the following 1983 commercial shows, at the Ford Motor Company, “Quality is Job 1.”
First: “First is the worst . . .” Bratwurst. Bathurst. Australia. Peter Weir, who directed “The Cars That Ate Paris.” The trailer for that 1974 movie shows the flaming shell of a Jaguar 3.4 Sedan.
How would you associate these words with cars? Tell us in the Comments section below. And be sure to share your ideas for random words to use in a future installment of Car Connections.
