Grandpa’s "DRAG-U-LA," a dragster, was built from a real coffin. It was illegal to sell a coffin without a death certificate so Richard "Korky" Korkes, who built the car, made a deal with a ...

A replica of the famous Munster Koach will highlight the 35th annual Wheels of Time Rod & Custom Jamboree.

FORSYTH — Larz Cothern checked the last item off his bucket list on Thursday when he got to drive the Dragula, Grandpa Munster's race car.

To win it back, Grandpa Munster builds this: a fiberglass coffin wrapped around a drag car drivetrain. He wins the race, the Koach goes back home, and everyone's happy.

The Munsters went off the air in 1966, but the iconic Drag-u-la from the show is going up for auction. Created by Dick Dean – who also worked on the ECTO-1 ambulance from Ghostbusters and the ...

NEW YORK - Al Lewis, the cigar-chomping patriarch of “The Munsters” whose work as a basketball scout, restaurateur and political candidate never eclipsed his role as Grandpa from the ...

Al Lewis, the cigar-chomping patriarch of "The Munsters" whose work as a basketball scout, restaurateur and political candidate never eclipsed his role as Grandpa from the television sitcom, died ...

"The Munsters" itself featured some unique automobiles — the family car known as the Munster Koach and the Dragula, a drag racing car built by vampire character Grandpa Munster in the series.

TV legend “Grandpa” Al Lewis, who rose to cult icon status as the cigar-chomping patriarch on “The Munsters” and as Officer Leo Schnauser on “Car 54, Where are You?” – and later ...

“Richard, it’s Al Lewis calling.” How I dreaded those five words. I heard them often during my 13 months as news director of KPFK, the left-of-center Los Angeles radio station. &#… ...

FORSYTH — Larz Cothern checked the last item off his bucket list on Thursday when he got to drive the Dragula, Grandpa Munster's race car.