Dragula
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- This article is about the car in the television programme, The Munsters. For the song by Rob Zombie on the Hellbilly Deluxe album, see Dragula (song).
Dragula was one of two cars built by George Barris for the TV show The Munsters.
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[edit] The Car
The body was Fiberglass built in the shape of a coffin and featured a 350HP 360CI Ford Mustang V-8 engine, with a four-speed stick shift. The engine had two four-barrel carburetors and got 4 miles to the gallon. The two rear tires were 11-inch Firestone racing slicks mounted on custom 10-inch Rader aluminum wheels. Each hubcap was decorated with a large silver spider. The front tires were Speedsport English buggy wire wheels on 4-inch Italian tires. Rather than use traditional exhaust pipes, Barris installed four organ pipes on each side of the car, and mounted antique lamps on the front and rear to extend the gothic motif.
The front of the vehicle sported a marble gravestone with the words: "Born 1367, Died ?".
Dragula reportedly was able to go between 160mph and 180mph and had a functioning parachute it used to stop.
The driver sat in the rear of the vehicle behind the engine, under a plastic bubble.
[edit] The Munsters
On The Munsters, Grandpa Munster created the vehicle to win back The Munster Koach after Herman lost it in a drag race.
The 1966 movie [Munster Go Home] featured Herman Munster driving Dragula in a cross-country race, surviving various attempts on his life until at the very end of the movie he wins the race by sliding backwards across the finish line because of an oil slick.
[edit] Trivia
Rob Zombie titled a song Dragula for his album Hellbilly Deluxe. The Hot Rod Herman remix by Chalrie Clouser of "Dragula" was briefly played in the movie "The Matrix", and featured on the soundtrack album.
Rorry Dragula, the stage name for Rory-Michael Desmond, is the drummer for metalcore band A Mortuary Tribute.
Twisted Metal 4 features the song, and the car as a playable character. Also, in Grand Turisumo 2.
Dragula is also the name of two gay drag queen Dracula parodies, one pornographic, both from the 1970s.
