| STOLEN CAR - V1 take 1 | 4:34 | LM-6 / ATMF |
| STOLEN CAR - V2 take 2 | 4:08 | LM-6 |
| STOLEN CAR - V3 | 4:14 | DBTR / SYMKB |
| STOLEN CAR (Vs.1) - V4 take 3 | 4:18 | TRACKS / RIVER: SINGLE / TTTBR / DROC2 |
| STOLEN CAR - V5 | 0:56 | LM-7 |
| STOLEN CAR - V6 | 3:21 | LMEC2 |
| STOLEN CAR - V7 | 2:10 | LM-13 |
| STOLEN CAR - V8 | 3:39 | LM-13 |
| STOLEN CAR - V9 | 2:40 | LM-13 |
| STOLEN CAR - V10 | 2:55 | LM-13 |
| STOLEN CAR - V11 | 7:42 | LM-15 |
| STOLEN CAR - V12 | 6:14 | LM-15 |
| STOLEN CAR - V13 | 7:31 | LM-15 |
| STOLEN CAR - V14 | 7:58 | LM-15 |
| STOLEN CAR - V15 | 3:50 | RIVER |
Note: "Stolen Car" is actually the tale of two songs. The first "Stolen Car" was written, recorded and sequenced for release on the aborted album, The Ties That Bind, between June and September 1979. Springsteen later re-wrote and re-recorded the song and released it on The River in October 1980. "Stolen Car" was first recorded at Power Station on June 20–21, 1979, with takes attributed to the latter date. V1, the first take, contains different lyrics and is longer. V2 is referred to as "The Stanton Lake" version, because it started with that line. Take 3 (V4) was selected for The Ties That Bind, with final dubbing and mixing (by Bob Clearmountain) on September 24, 1979. It was later officially released on Tracks in 1998, and on The River Single Album in 2015, now dubbed "Stolen Car Vs. 1". V3 is the fourth and last distinct take of this arrangement. It was this take that was on a tape that fell into the hands of bootleggers, subsequently dubbed "Son You May Kiss the Bride", and pressed into a vinyl LP of the same name. It contained four unreleased River tracks, the title track, "Loose Ends", "Where The Bands Are", and "Don't Do It To Me" (aka "Little White Lies").
Despite the song being completed, Bruce was dissatisfied and decided months later to radically alter the musical arrangement. V5 is less than a minute of a solo take, and in V6, Springsteen sings over a tape of a band rehearsal of "Restless Nights", both recorded in January 1980. V7–V14 were recorded on January 16, 1980 at Telegraph Hill, and feature revised arrangements. The end result was V15, which was recorded at Power Station on January 21 and February 20, with overdubs and mixing undertaken on April 1 and 9, and May 9, 1980. The final mix for The River was by Toby Scott, at Clover Recorders, Los Angeles, CA in May–July 1980, with Springsteen watching over his shoulder.