![]() ![]() Its music video features the band on stage, often being swung back and forth from a cable. Released as the third single from 1984, “Panama” reached #13 in the US, becoming the album’s third top 20 in a row. a hot woman – who is into some hard partying! (see also: “Little Red Corvette”). Of course, the car described in the song only serves as a metaphor for…. The nickname for that blue 1969 Kadett Caravan was “Panama” cuz that was the farthest south that you could possibly go and still have a really corrupt good time. The car they wrote “Panama” about is either a drag racer named Panama Express or Diamond Dave’s Opel Kadet: “Panama” reportedly was inspired by a time Van Halen was criticized by a reporter for writing songs solely about hard partying, hot women, and fast cars, to which David Lee Roth responded that they’d never written a song about a fast car. ![]()
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