The song tells the true story (according to a June 1976 interview in Sounds magazine with guitarist Billy Gibbons) of himself and a friend with the help of a foreman weld together a spherical steel cage (inside of which is a VW-Bug seat fitted with a seatbelt), place the cage into the bed of their truck and at night, after reaching a speed of 60 mph , on Highway 6 near Houston (also known as Jack Rabbit Road), propel the cage from the back with the hapless narrator and friend taking a ride inside.