So the other day at the studio we were listening a CD with the Matrix soundtrack and there was this song called Dragula, now a excerpt of the lyrics says “… and slam in the back of my dragula…”
Now, the first thing to come to my mind when I heard that word was a Transilvanian , undead bloke with a penchant for blood and putting on womens clothing singing “We Are Family” on a Miami nightclub.
But I don´t think that fits the context of the song, so what is it then?
It was Herman Munster’s race car. Watch the video to the song and you’ll get the reference.
BTW, It’s by Rob Zombie.
Ahh… thanks.
That’s what I always thought this song was about. Sort of a hard-rock version of Dr. Frank N. Furter.
Actually, Herman lost the family car in a drag race so Grandpa built Dragula to win back the family car. Dragula is the coffin body car 
It was more than that. Various model companies combined their monster lines and their hot rod lines to produce monsters driving strange cars with odd names (Frankenstein’s Flying Fliver is a nice example). Dracula’s dragster had a nice alliterative sound. Shortening it to Dragula was common.
The liner notes for the album (I don’t have a copy. So, I can’t give you specifics. A friend was playing the CD when I noticed the liner notes.) are done in the style of the horror magazines of the 60’s and 70’s, Eerie and Creepy in particular. Rob Zombie introduces each song the way Uncle Eerie, Cousin Creepy, the Crypt Keeper, or the Old Witch would. Some pages of the notes even include fake ads for monster masks. IIRC Rob Zombie designed the notes himself. Dragula is unquestionably a homage to those magazines.
If you need further proof of Zombie’s love of old horror, he’s lent his name to a comic titled Rob Zombie’s Spookshow.
I must confess that, despite “Dragula” being the title of the song, for a long time I thought he was singing “slam in the back of my JUGULAR”. Because, you know, like…vampires and veins and things.
“Dragula” is sometimes seen as an alternate spelling of “Dracula”, predating the song. I don’t know if there’s any sound historic or linguistic basis for this, although I do know that the “g” spelling does not appear in Stoker’s novel.
I have performed in drag as “Count Dragula” (second from top). That’s female-to-male drag though, so not really like Frank. I did use a snip from “Dragula” as my walk-on song, although I didn’t perform to that number – I thought it would be rather difficult to dance/lip sync to.
Let’s nor forget the fabulous “Dragula, Queen of Darkness” sequence from National Lampoon’s Disco Beaver from Outer Space.
I could never forget that sequence, because its airing in my home was the only time ever that my father ordered my brother and me away from the television and refused to allow us to watch the end of it. It was never on HBO again at any time that I’ve had access to the channel so I’ve never seen it all the way through.
The photo in the link in my last post is the enlargement from this page, which has text about the car.
Totally non-contributory post to this thread, because I cannot this morning think of how to work it in sensibly, but I just had to use the phrase “Transylvanian transvestite.” 
Which was probably based on a 1971 comic book parody feature in the magazine (I haven’t seen the movie). The gist of it is that we have a gay vampire who goes around biting guys and making them all become stereotypically homosexual. Very funny, and very offensive, as per the NatLamp norm. Almost as inspired as “Son 'o God” comics.
Sounds like Curse of the Queerwolf (which I haven’t seen).
Considering “Dracula” comes about from a word for dragon, it’s not that odd.
Well, I may have had the wrong model of car, but watch the video and you’ll see it’s about some kind of car.
(duffer, Rob Zombie fan for over 10 years)
