Plus on April 2, 1956, the very same plane in that photo ditched in Puget Sound after the flight engineer failed to close the cowl flaps after takeoff, resulting in 5 deaths:

OK, I'll click on EXPAND...

Now that we've got the obvious ones out of the way, let's give a nod to 1975's Race with the Devil:

I'll have what he's having.

Wingfoot? I guess after 95 years they forgot about their Wingfoot Air Express, which on its maiden flight caught fire in mid-air and crashed through the skylight of a Chicago bank, killing 13 (three in the blimp, ten on the ground).

LeCarzilla?

(Kidding! Take it easy, just couldn't resist!)

This. The height of American exuberance.

Too bad legendary L.A. sportscaster Jim Healy didn't live to hear this - he would have played it as much as the Tommy Lasorda or Jerome Brown rants.

Angrier eyes!

'58 Cadillac and Brian Griffin. https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3879/147964901…

Ugh. Hate to say it, particularly on Jalopnik, but I failed the test on my first try at the very last moment. The mall parking lot where the license office was had two two-lane driveways going in and out; I was asked to make a left turn to pull up in front of the office and I made the turn from the right lane (which…

So why did your grandpa's Caddy have a different license number when you drove into the Atomic Broiler?

Or a Hertz commercial.

Ah. Never mind... request withdrawn! Come to think of it, Aladdin was kind of on the young side too, wasn't he?

No Emperor Kuzco? And I don't mean the llama version.

Imperial convertibles. From 1957 to 1968, production of this great-performing Mopar luxobomb went into four figures exactly once (1167 in '57); the rest of those years it averaged only 589 a year. Cadillac just had the luxury convertible market sewn up and Lincoln's novel four-door convert took most of what sales were…

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Kurt Russell as Elvis.

And Euell Gibbons, natural-food author who found fame in 1974 shilling for Grape-Nuts cereal ("Reminds me of wild hickory nuts!") died a year later of an aortic aneurysm at 64.