ever heard of a streamliner that was used as a roadside attraction? The Thunderbowl Comet was one, near Acton on the Sierra Highway, it was on a stretched L29 Cord chassis and eventually was bought and dismantled for its Cord parts.

the Golden Eagle aka Thunderbowl Comet. 

Although the car's story varies from one teller to the next, it did at least portray a Muroc Dry Lake LSR contender in a 1936 Jimmy Stewart B-movie called 'Speed', turning up years later as opening act at the Carpenteria Thunderbowl, a quarter-mile dirt track near Santa Barbara, California

from the Reservatory 6, a good blog that only lasted the 4 heyday years of blogging, 2011-2014

https://reservatory6.blogspot.com/2012/11/thunderbowl-comet-again_16.html