Welcome to the Weekly Weird and Wonderful, wherein we, your faithful BaT editorial staff, present a curated list of cool, unusual, interesting, or otherwise noteworthy vehicles currently live on BaT. This is of course but a small fraction of the ~1,000 listings that await you over on our live auctions page, so once you’ve finished reading, feel free to make your way over there and spend the rest of your weekend clicking away.
Enjoy this week’s selection of Weird and Wonderful BaT auctions, and let us know what else you think should be on our list!
“The Munsters” Drag-U-La Re-Creation
Without the heroic antics of Drag-u-la, the Munster Koach might have been lost to history—tucked away in the garage of neighborhood bully “Leadfoot” Baylor, who won it from Herman Munster while racing for pink slips down at the local dragway. Thankfully, Grandpa Munster’s ad-hoc racer triumphed at the strip (despite some sabotage involving the drag chute), and the Munster Koach came back to its rightful owners. The lesson here, kids, is always double down on your mistakes.
Both of the Munsters’ cars were built for the show by George Barris, and the car currently up for auction is somehow the second Drag-u-la tribute that Bullet Motorsports has brought to BaT. This one is not street-legal, and there are a couple elements (other than the obvious) that would make it a death trap on public roads. The pedal arrangement consists of a brake on the right and clutch on the left, while the throttle is controlled by a T-handle on the dash. That alone would take some getting used to, but low-speed driving is out of the question, as the radiator has no cooling fan and the built 302 is very much not a prop.
Ford Econoline-Bodied, Six-Wheeled, Mid-Engined Custom “Economac”
The “why” rarely matters with builds like these, but we’d certainly like to tap into the mind of the creative maniac behind the “Economac.” Built over more than a decade by the current owner’s father Dale, this machine was designed to resemble a vintage Mack …
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