Brian Johnson has signed a deal with Penguin Books to release a collection of thoughts and anecdotes he has recorded over the years. The AC/DC frontman recently elaborated on the project and shared an amusing story about the first cars he ever owned, back in his native England.

"I like humor a lot, and cars have been a big part of my life," the hard-rock vocalist told Southwestern Florida's Herald Tribune newspaper. "I'm lucky enough that I'm able to buy some of the exotic ones. Instead of doing drugs, I did motorcars. I'm not sure which one is more expensive.

"There's one story about me buying my first car, a Ford 100E," Johnson says. "It was a rust bucket, obviously. I got in the car and drove about 100 yards and the seat went through the floor. I sat there on the road, and the guy who had sold it to me said, '[Bleep], you've just fallen through the [bleeping] floor. Ahhhh, you should've checked that before you took it, me son.' That was me first hard lesson in motorcars."

Johnson then shared a tale about another beloved yet untrustworthy ride he once owned: "I took my first girlfriend out to a place called Shield Field," he said. "I had a Ford Popular. It was horrible. It was beige on the outside with a salmon pink interior. It was very old-fashioned, certainly not a chick magnet, but it was all I could afford.

"I took the girl home on a Sunday night and said, 'I have to go home and go to work tomorrow.' She lived in a cul-de-sac, so I had to reverse out. It only had three gears, and when I got to the end of the cul-de-sac, it was stuck in reverse. So I drove home nine-and-a-half miles in reverse, over a busy bridge -- it was dusk.

"I got home and I was sweating, and my father said, 'How are you gonna get that fixed, young fella?' I didn't know anything about cars and neither did me father. Me father's tool box consisted of a big hammer. He went out to the car, he hit the gear box with this hammer and says, 'Try it now,' and it worked."