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The confluence of Halloween and local Dodger-mania led me to post this.

If you watch the full episode,* there is a brief cameo by Elroy "Crazylegs" Hirsch at the very end. Hirsch was a native Wisconsinite who played football for the UW-Badgers and went on to play professionally for the LA Rams. He was then GM for the Rams during the Munster era. He returned to Wisconsin to head athletics at the UW in 1969 up until 1987 which is when (and where) I became familiar with him.
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George Barris' shop built both the "Munster Koach" and "Drag-U-La" used in that short clip.

Barris is a living legend. Born in Chicago to Greek immigrant parents, he and his brother started customizing cars in the 1940's. They began doing custom work for Hollywood in the 1950's and became best known for creating the Batmobile from a unique Lincoln Futura. Barris kept the Batmobile until quite recently, selling it for $4,260,000.00. That seems like quite a profit, but consider that the original Lincoln Futura was never commercialized and cost around $2,200,000.00 to produce in 2015 dollars. So George roughly doubled the value.

Here's a link to some of the cars his shop produced through the years: Link

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I can move mountains, I can work miracles, but nothing's going to get "Marilyn's Diary" at Lem's.