@beercheck

I can imagine that thing with "Wipeout" by The Surfaris playing (until you jiggled the handle)

Not only is it wrong, it's a '57.

Did those advertising geniuses use this clip for inspiration?:

Yesca...one of my road-trip car-tape favorites...it wound up on one I made in college in '78, as the track before the live version of "I Shot The Sheriff" by Bob Marley & The Wailers.

Fortunately for the civilized world, he didn't reverse the bodily recepticle in which he stuck the pipe.

Steve Fossett was going to try for 800 MPH in Craig Breedlove's former car..and I was going to write a preview article about it for my (now-former_ publication/employer.

Once, while flying from Ontario to Sacramento, the lady in the seat next to me said this while we were talking about driving in SoCal:

...mmmmmm....beer.......

Two questions:

Good find, and thanks for sending along the pics. It's the type of car that's worth keeping in (as close to) its original condition as possible. (What is the Czech translatiuon of "It's only original once"?)

@mike spinelli:

@mike spinelli:

Best: The LT-1 of 1970-72...370 horsepower in Corvette form (360 in the Camaro Z28), and Car & Driver Magazine built a Camaro around it (The "Blue Maxi") a year before this engine was a Chevy factory option. (They knew a guy who knew a guy...)

Whoever's going...if you get the chance, have Steve Evans' excellent drag-race-commercial-compilation "BE THERE!!" cranked while you're on your way to the track.

Don't forget the front-engined Top Fuel racing (where they're running in the mid-5's at around 255 MPH with engines that are, essentially, fifty years old.)

Fart extractors.

Now I really know why my folks' '70 Bonneville kicked the Caprice's ass. it was roomier, with a much bigger trunk, and a run-all-day-at-70-on-the-freeway 455, for starters.

@sassycaddy: They stopped when pitchers started jogging from the bullpen to the mound, taking the shortest route in the process.

@charlesbarrett: The X-Body cars that GM was putting as much engineering work into (at the time the first "Star Wars" movie came out) as the guys in the video put into their T-65.