Dracula's Ride

There are cars that are designed to be comfortable. Spacious, well insulated; they surround you in a world all your own. There are cars that exist to give the driver the illusion they are behind the joystick of an F18 fighter, as you are pinned against the seat with a hart-stopping G Force.

There are cars that seem to have been created just to say to the world " I've made it."

But then there those special few that hark back to your childhood fantasies before you were necessarily aware of what cars cost; they were cars of Television or the movies, the cars that Super heroes drove. These were famous, "One-of-a-kind autos where the driver was better known even than the car. These were the cars that were in our Hot-Wheel collection when we were nine years old; and as my wife reminds me, men seldom really grow up, or grow past that nine year stage especially when it comes to cars.

Buy the Black Beauty and you become the Green Hornet. I doubt there are more than a handful of men that have bought an Aston Martin that did not ask for a martini "Shaken- not stirred. While any adult male would recognize the impracticality of trying to make the daily commute to your office in the Batmobile; given the opportunity, it would be a difficult car to turn down.

The Munsters TV show was responsible for producing not one, but two amazing vehicles. The Coach, a cross between a model T, an 18th century funeral coach, and a full out dragster - This was best discribed as the "Family Car". The car show here was GrandPa's personal toy for when he wanted to "Fly by" on four wheels rather than as a bat. This was yet one more of the cars to come out of Barris along with the Coach.

I have to admit, even we would have a tricky time getting Herman SR-22 insurance on this baby.