The Grateful Dead and hot rodding.... whats the connection?

The cover of this album was done by Stanley "Mouse" Miller

"I found the original image in the stacks of the San Francisco Public Library," said painter Stanley "Mouse" Miller. "It was created by an artist named Edmund Sullivan to illustrate a poem in The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

His work with the Dead continued through many classic albums, including Workingman's Dead and American Beauty.

http://mentalfloss.com/article/52066/stories-behind-22-classic-album-covers