Several years back, I drove a blue GMC van (Babe, like the Blue Ox). There was enough room inside to host a small rodeo. Someone may have at some point. That would explain the smell.
Before that, I drove a white Subaru Forester (Gump). After the GMC van came the Toyota van, then the white Stay-Puft Stormtrooper van. Now I’m driving a maroon version of the Stormtrooper Dodge van. Oh my, even before all these was the white Dodge Caravan. Yes, the Dodge Caravan with multiple transmission personalities is where it all started. What am I talking about?
Paradise by the Dashboard Light. Everyone remembers the song by Meatloaf, right? Well, I thought the coolest thing for a folksinger on the road would be a pair of fuzzy dice hanging from the rearview mirror. These fuzzy dice have been in every vehicle I’ve had for the past eight years or so. They're hanging above my studio door right now.
A Pair of Dice by the Dashboard Light.
Disclaimer: The following haiku is in no way associated with the above story. It’s just something that hit me in the head and bounced off on this page. 
Who recalls who called
Here before the Fourth? Not I,
Out since the third fifth
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Peace, Y’all
Hey, how was your fish?
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