I like to think they could have been related. That side of town always smelled SO TASTY, and their little brown truck was always a welcome sight. He tended to show up after the milkman. And yeah, they did have those newfangled motorised conveyances so popular with the humans at that time. I bet Nashville was still nice back then; wish I could have experienced that, but I did not escape from the clutches of the west coast [albeit it briefly] until the early 90s.