I cannot stress this to Jewish parents enough: do NOT send your kids to an Ivy or bespoke private college. Send them to a school with a gigantic football stadium. They will love it, have a wonderful time, get a great education, make loads of friends, and crush life.
Or how about Rita Haworth and her 1941 Lincoln Continental? Later, patriotic Rita would donate its rear bumper as part of a memorable photo op to promote the WW2 scrap metal campaign. 
Turbonique was the brainchild of raconteur Gene Middlebrooks, a Georgia Tech alum and mechanical engineer who worked at Martin-Marietta on the Pershing nuclear missile program. In his spare time he designed AP (auxiliary power) superchargers for cars that didn't rely on drive from the engine; at first electric, and then "Thermolene" (his tradename for N-propyl nitrate rocket fuel). 
40% of the population of the entire United States watched it. 24 hours later guitar sales went through the roof and the barber shop industry lay in ruins
The story of this car is true lore among my co-religionists in the hot rod & custom sect. In 1964, 17 year old San Fernando Valley high school student Steve Scott saw a fanciful Ed Roth-style concept Model T drawing by a classmate, and said to himself, "I'm going to build this in real life." 
Car shows go back to the turn of the 20th century but the idea of an auto show concept car, as a styling exercise and vision of things to come, didn't occur until 1938. That was the Buick Y Job, here with GM styling studio chief Harley Earl behind the wheel. 
Rickenbacker's bio reads like an over-the-top Hollywood movie; boy of humble origins, father killed in a dispute at work, forced in to family breadwinner at 13, race car champ, fighter ace, car designer, founder of Eastern Airlines, writer of comic strips, owner of Indianapolis Motor Speedway, survived 24 days at sea without food after a plane crash in the Pacific doing a secret mission for the US military in WW2. 
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