Commercial Auto Dealers

It’s amazing what auto engineers are coming up with nowadays to add to vehicles. I was checking out the trucks at the GMC truck dealer down the road from me and I was amazed! Here are some of the available features that I found on the genius GMC Arcadia truck for today’s driver.

• The audio controls in the cargo area. I can’t count how many times I’ve been just hanging out with my friends by the lake or something and had to get in the driver’s seat just to turn up the radio. With this available feature, you can control everything while sitting on the tailgate without ever leaving the fun!

• The touch-screen navigation system was great! How much easier does it get than simply touching the options to get what you’re looking for?

• How many times have I backed into something and dented my car? Too many to count. But with the Ultrasonic Rear Parking Assist System, that’ll never happen again. It alerts you when something is behind you so you can stop backing up before bumping into it.

• The one year subscription to OnStar is perfect for me. I would get the service anyways, but I’ll take it for free for the first year if they’re offering it up.

• How genius is it to have heated windshield washing fluid? Being from Michigan, I can certainly appreciate this feature. On some of those frigid winter mornings, it’s simply too cold to stand outside and scrape the windshield. This feature should solve my problem.

Halloween Horror Nights is an annual event at Universal Orlando. In recent years, it has also been presented at Universal Hollywood. The event has revolutionized the Halloween season, drawing guests from around the world in an annual pilgrimage. Started in 1991 as “Fright Nights,” the event continues to grow in scope each year. Last year, Halloween Horror Nights featured eight haunted houses, four shows and several street scare zones and performers.

Although the event changes completely in theme and design each year, a few icons remain the same. One example is the Bill and Ted Excellent Halloween Adventure. Hosted by Bill S. Preston, Esquire and Ted “Theodore” Logan of the Bill and Ted films, this high energy show pokes fun at the previous year’s pop culture, movies and music.

However, there is one icon that stands perhaps above all others. She is known simply as the “Rat Lady.” The Rat Lady began as a scare inside the Dungeon of Terror house in 1991. She was a scare actor located in a plexiglass coffin below the floor accompanied by dozens of live rats. Guests entered the room in total darkness. Once they were inside, the Rat Lady illuminated the coffin and began screaming.

She proved so effective that by 1992 she was already a legend. Soon the Rat Lady was removed from the haunted house and placed into a fully enclosed plexiglass coffin. The coffin is now attached to an old-fashioned hand-drawn hearse, which is pulled by scare actors dressed as pall bearers.

The Rat Lady effect is real. A live girl lies in the coffin while numerous rats crawl on and around her. In fact, the girls who trade off the role are the only scare actors who are required to receive tetanus shots.

If you are a fan of horror, Halloween Horror Nights is truly not to be missed. Fans of antique hearses should be sure to catch the Rat Lady as she makes her way around the park. Although the hearse is a replica, the detail is truly stunning.