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The song struck a chord with the public due to its "free love" message and its ties to the "vansploitation"<ref>A portmanteau of "vans" and "exploitation"; the term references films that prominently featured a van as essential to the film's plot.</ref> films of the 1970s. In it, a singer (singing in first person) picks up an attractive female who is hitchhiking, and ultimately the two engage in sexual intercourse in the back of his [[Chevrolet]] van. Afterwards, he drops her off in a small town with "a dirt road Main Street" that was "so small, you could throw a rock from end to end", and laments that he "won't be passing through again".
The song struck a chord with the public due to its "free love" message and its ties to the "vansploitation"<ref>A portmanteau of "vans" and "exploitation"; the term references films that prominently featured a van as essential to the film's plot.</ref> films of the 1970s. In it, a singer (singing in first person) picks up an attractive female who is hitchhiking, and ultimately the two engage in sexual intercourse in the back of his [[Chevrolet]] van. Afterwards, he drops her off in a small town with "a dirt road Main Street" that was "so small, you could throw a rock from end to end", and laments that he "won't be passing through again".
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