"Riding in a three grand Deutsche car" refers to a Daimler-Benz that the band hired to tour Germany in around 1971/72. Alan Lancaster used to sit in the back, roll his window down, lean out and punch the driver's window to put the shits up whoever was driving!
It would be great to hear your reaction to the 1972 live version of Paper Plane that was filmed at the Marquee Club in London it's so heavy! The 3 grand Deutsche car was a Mercedes I think that cost £3000.
ALL Rock Stars back then, were on some kind of 'Mind Expanding drug' so a lot of the songs were written while they were 'High' Now they're 'Clean' Them and other artists can't even remember writing their songs! 😆 That's ROCK N' ROLL 😆
Never a fan of their acoustic tour stuff, although I appreciate the reason it was done. This is one of the better numbers from it as far as I'm concerned, but it will never beat the rockin' original! Check that out sometime 🙂