This song dates back to Dave Mustaine's days with Metallica, which he joined in 1981. Mustaine says that he had this song when he joined the band, and when he worked it up with Metallica, they ended up incorporating it into a song called "The Four Horsemen," which was released after Mustaine was fired in 1983. Mustaine included the song on the first Megadeth album, Killing Is My Business...
Complete with references to bulging pistons and hard shifting, this song takes driving and auto repair deep into the sexual realm, something that is very common in the blues tradition (Robert Johnson did it in 1936 on this song "Terraplane Blues").
The original Metallica version (titled "The Mechanix") can be found on the band's 1982 demo tape No Life 'Til Leather, which was reissued in 2015. The lineup at the time was Mustaine, James Hetfield (vocals, guitar), Lars Ulrich (drums) and Ron McGovney (bass).
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