Fun facts - The MonkeeMobile was a pretty legit drag car. It was a 1966 Pontiac GTO, with a bunch of fiberglass bodywork, and a 6-71 supercharger(gold-plated for looks), giving it about 650-700 horsepower - pretty impressive for the day. It also had a solid mounted live rear axle(no springs), and removable extra weight in the back, so it could pop massive wheelies if they wanted it to, and had the fenders flared at the back to sufficient size to accept big, wide drag slicks when necessary. And of course, it’s got a fully functional drag chute.
If you’ve ever been near one running - both the Monkeemobiles are painfully loud. No cats, no mufflers - It’s just a straight(well, curvy, but nothing between motor and exit) pipe leading to a trumpet tip.
In the end, they had to swap the blower for a non-functioning replica, because it was so powerful that it was extremely difficult to drive. One of them retained the working supercharger, and was used whenever they needed the car to go fast, as well as drag shows on tour, and so on.
For a goofy, synthetic pop group, their car was fucking badass.
