Dep is still around after a few incarnations of his name, he is a bit quieter now after 13 years
Interestingly enough I didn't hear "six tail lights" in the song posted and after further review I was right there were 3 versions of the song
"Three versions of "Dead Man's Curve" were released:
Version #1: Original version from the 1963 Drag City album
Version #2: Single "hit" version with added horns, strings, additional backing vocals and sounds of a car skidding and crashing; from the 1964 Dead Man's Curve/The New Girl In School LP
Version #3: An earlier rejected studio mix from the 1966 Filet of Soul album.
Live versions appear on the 1965 Command Performance and 1971 Anthology albums
There are a few minor lyrical differences between versions #1 and 3 and version #2 listed above:
Versions #1 & 3 - "my frenched tail lights", "the strip was deserted" and "pulled her out and there I was"
Version #2 - "my six tail lights", "the street was deserted" and "pulled her out and there we were"