As does Don Garlits' Museum of Drag Racing just outside Ocala, Florida (right next to I-75, a few miles north of the junction of I-75/Florida's Turnpike).

If you want to get anything from the gift shop autographed by Big Daddy himself, call ahead and make sure he'll be there when you are.

See more at www.garlits.com

You'll have to PAY* if you want to use the name "Problematic" with your plug-in hybrid, pally!

(*The greater of 26 "Little Tree" air fresheners or $1 billion.)

It was an idea that took longer to post on here than it did to flash across my brain...sort of like what transmission you'd find in the next-year successor to the " '58 Bulgemobiles" dreamed up by Bruce Mccall.

BTW--i'd like to see the vehicles that the other gearboxes on this list would go into (or fall out of).

I can't fathom the fact that Clarkson is two years younger than I am!

That car would have been something on the dirt shrt-tracks that NASCAR ran most of its races on back then.

Honest.

("Here" being Riverview)

Their website is still up:

www.pvilleparts.com

Example: California requires a blend of "clean air gasoline" that is not made anywhere else that's close (so needed supplies could be trucked or pipelined in). Also, since a publc uproar over MTBE caused that cancer-causing "clean air ingredient" to be replaced with ethanol, Cali-grade gas can't be shipped by pipeline.

(It's the same way for a lot of big cities/urban areas, like Chicago.)

This led to Cali gas being about $.60-.75/gallon more expensive than gas you can get in Arizona. I saw that in a big way when I moved out of Cali last year...gas got cheaper the further East I went!

Also, thanks to "clean air gasoline", you can't get any higher than 91 octane (which they call "premium") at any gas station statewide...for any higher octane, you've got to buy race gas, and pay through the nose accordingly.

Even in bare metal without all the chassis bits on it, it looked fantastic.

Kudos to Kevin Bradley & his crew of master craftsmen who built it!

Somehow, "Magical Misery Tour" (from that same National Lampoon album as "Deteriorata") seems strangely inappropriate here.

Ernie Kovacs died at the wheel of a Corvair station wagon (the most tail-heavy 'Vair body style)...with a blood alcohol content of .11%, while leaving a party...while trying to light a cigar while rounding a wide, sweeping curve during a California-in-January rainstorm...& after he'd been awake for 24+ hours working on a comedy special for ABC-TV & a TV-series pilot with Buster Keaton.

On his tombstone: "Nothing In Moderation."

My black '86 GT fastback was my company car.

From the day I got it, the '80s stopped sucking.

Last year, on set-up day at the Sacramento Autorama, i was looking for cars to photograph for my soon-to-be-ex-rag, and Gene recognized me, came over, said hello...and for the next hour or so we wandered around, not only looking at the stuff that he did that was in the show, but other cars & trucks that he thought were kewl (some of which wound up winning more than a few of the big awards at that historic show!)

@Isetta: The first Caprice was the four-door hardtop, which appeared in the middle of the '65 model run. The 2-door "boxtop" hardtop and faux-wood-trimmed wagon joined it at the start of '66, so you're sorta right ('66 was first year Caprice was a series of its own).

I've already told the story of how our family's acquisition of a Candy Apple Red '66 Country Squire (& Mom letting GM stylist and former neighbor Dave Holls know that's what led us to choose the Squire of a non-faux-wooded Pontiac wagon) led to the faux wood on GM & Chrysler wagons from '67-on...it's still true...

BTW: Will there be "Odorama" cards for folks to scratch & sniff the various olfactory attractions in the movie (i.e. fresh-roasted coffee, roasted clutch discs and tires, roasted...oh, never mind.)?

One bit that he mentioned is worth mentioning here. He said regarding newly-built cars, if anything's bound to break, come loose or go wrong, it will likely happen in the first 200 or so miles. So, before going on any long trips with your newly-built ride, he recommended taking a short (no more than 100 miles each way, out and back) "shakedown cruise," to see, hear & feel how you're car is running--and ifsomething does go wrong, you aren't that far away from help.

His influence was also apparent in another field of hot rodding and car-building. Namely, it influenced those who prize mechanical skill, traditional methods and metal-crafting excellence over the ability to write checks for all manner of high-$$$ parts on ultra-high-$$$ cars. Those are the guys who you see at Billetproof every year...thanks (in a way) to Boyd, even if it was 180 degrees away from what was going on in the Boyd Coddington Garage.

I'd make a Cardiff Giant reference, but I don't know how many folks here are up on that century-plus-old bit of Central New York hucksterism & prime example of people believing what they want to believe....

This, on the other hand, looks like it was based on the Origami V12.

You should post that parody dealer ad that's also on that same old-car-ads page at TVParty (though it may be NSFW for some folks...)

Also,it's really entertaining when a car's up for bids when they cut to a detail shot along the right side of the car, you invariably get some 50-something's butt taking up much of the frame.

All I learned about what to do at auctions like this I learned from seeing Cary Grant in Alfred Hitchcock's movie "North By Northwest."

In the Kaiser, it's big enough so you can wear a fedora and a big double-breasted suit AND have room for at least three similarly-attired friends.

Room inside the Kaiser, that is.

You mean falling out, right?

"Chim-Chim Shits In Hand, Throws It In Face Of Goldman Sachs Analyst"