the pseudo-clever stuff that barris continually alluded to about his own vehicle probably bore some resemblance to reality , the reality of arctor 's own modified car , because many of the radio gimmicks which arctor carried were sop and had been demonstrated on late-night tv , on network talk shows , by electronic experts who had helped design them , or read about them in trade journals , or seen them , or gotten fined from police labs and harbored a grudge .