DRAG-U-LA, along with The Munster Koach, was one of two cars designed by Tom Daniels while working for George Barris and Barris Kustom Industries for the TV show The Munsters.

The car

The fiberglass body of DRAG-U-LA was shaped like a coffin. It featured a 350HP 289CI Ford Mustang V-8 engine, with a four-speed stick shift. It had two four-barrel carburetors.

The two rear tires were 11-inch Firestone racing slicks, mounted on custom 10-inch Radir 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. To extend the Gothic motif farther, Barris installed four Zoomie style organ pipes on each side of the car in lieu of standard exhaust pipe, and mounted antique lamps on the front and rear.

The front of the vehicle sported a marble gravestone with the legend: "Born 1367, Died ?". The radiator was formed to look like a small brass coffin. The driver sat in the rear of the vehicle behind the engine, under a plastic bubble.

The original car is now housed in a Planet Hollywood in Atlantic City, New Jersey, where it hangs from the ceiling.

In The Munsters

On The Munsters TV series the car was created by Grandpa Munster so he could win back The Munster Koach, which Herman had lost in a drag race.

The 1966 movie Munster, Go Home features Herman driving DRAG-U-LA in a cross-country race.

In pop culture

Rob Zombie titled a song on his Hellbilly Deluxe album "Dragula", the Hot Rod Herman remix (by Charlie Clouser) of which was briefly played in the films The Matrix, The Watcher (film) and Training Day, and was featured on the soundtrack albums. Episode footage of the drag race was included in Zombie's horror film House of 1,000 Corpses.

The DRAG-U-LA is a playable vehicle in the car combat video game Twisted Metal 4.

External links

• Pictures of Grandpa's Dragula
• George Barris' RAT-ULA page (a remake the original DRAG-U-LA)