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I first heard this in an audio-book. I do understand the implicit meaning but I always wondered what this really means and the background of this phrase.

I have tried searching the Internet but all I could find were lyrics of a song and other places where this is used.

I am not very good at English idioms, so please bear with me if I am asking something that's well known.

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It seems to come from a 1964 Beach Boys song Fun, fun, fun.

According to this link:

This up-tempo classic suggests that life is somehow less enjoyable if one lacks access to a Thunderbird. It’s said to be based on the true story of a girl who drove her father’s car to a hamburger stand instead of the library and subsequently had her driving privileges revoked. Ford’s popular T-Bird was already in its fourth generation by then and packed a choice of V8 engines.

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    I'll just mention that Ford T-Bird is short for Ford Thunderbird, in case that isn't obvious.
    – Spehro 'speff' Pefhany
    Commented Mar 20, 2014 at 15:08
  • Surely daddy was aware that life in the fast lane requires fast food?
    – Edwin Ashworth
    Commented Aug 26, 2020 at 10:04
  • I'm going to slightly disagree with the Forbes quote in that while the girl thinks her fun is over, the narrator of the song reassures her that "... we'll have fun fun fun now that daddy took the T-Bird away". And now, wildly off-topic, but related to the song, I wonder if the German band "Kraftwerk" was taking a bit of a pun on this beach boys song, with their song Autobahn, which goes like this: "Wir fahr'n, fahr'n, fahr'n auf der Autobahn" azlyrics.com/lyrics/kraftwerk/autobahn.html
    – michaelok
    Commented Jul 19, 2021 at 20:02

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