and here are a couple close ups
And the same artist did the set work of Don Rickles' character's bar
below photo has a couple cool dragsters on the wall behind the musician's stage
Tommy Ivo's famous "Showboat" , in the below video, which has the movie clip of it running down the track, Tommy explains how he engineered the 4 engines to work simultaneously
Don Rickles in the red jumpsuit, his character runs the dragstrip and owns the bar "Big Drag's Pit Stop" at the beginning of this post
There were about 10 sligshot dragsters on the movie set, the Manta Ray, and the Show Boat
Pontiac Tempest or Bonneville wagon for a team push car, way cool rims
And they even went so nuts as to include a guy in a chimp suit thoughout the entire movie, and even had it drive a Harley Davidson Topper scooter, http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/06/how-did-harley-owners-ever-reinvent.html but with a sidecar... I've never seen a Topper with a sidecar... quite kooky