I watched the 1967 movie "Thunder Alley" - starring Annette Funicello and Fabian.

But I didn't expect to see Annette Funicello swilling hard liquor from a bottle and driving drunk in a stock car...

Fabian: You crazy broad! What's gotten into you?

Annette: Thatshh right, I'm a crazy broad. But you don't care...

Fabian: I'd kiss your silly-looking face if you didn't smell like a brewery...

Annette sang a pretty song (in a hideous peacock-eye dress), and I decided I wanted the out-of-print vinyl soundtrack. And at that same moment someone was selling it on eBay...

"I HAVE A TON OF RECORDS THAT WERE IN STORAGE FOR A VERY LONG TIME. MANY ARE IN REAL GOOD CONDITION. BUT THEY MAY HAVE AN ODOR AND HAVE A BIT OF SOILING FROM BEING STORED..."

Amazingly, the winning bid was 99 cents!

Let's free-associate some more on those moments gone by. Here's the movie's lurid taglines...

Days of screaming wheels.
Nights of reckless pleasure!

Their god is speed...
Their pleasure an 'anytime' girl

And enjoy this moment of existential angst from the movie's theme song by "The Band without a Name."

They give him a number then they gave him a car
And maybe with guts and luck he's gonna go far.
They say they've a buckle, and you'll be a star
but I wonder if he'll make it through
      Thunder Alley

He knows that there's danger riding down by the tracks
He knows there's no way of hiding when it looks black.
He's gone through the middle and there's no turning back
but I wonder if he'll make it through
    Thunder Alley

There isn't a way to win that he hasn't tried.
You get in his way he's gonna push you aside.
But when he gets there will he still have his pride?
And I wonder if he'll make it through
        Thunder Alley?

Lyrics by Guy Hemric and Jerry Styner

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