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1. a long, narrow, flat-bottomed boat, rowed by an oarsman at the stern: used on the canals in Venice, Italy. 2. a passenger compartment suspended beneath a balloon or airship. Compare car (def. 3). 3. an enclosed cabin suspended from an overhead cable, used to transport passengers, as up and down a ski slope. 4. Also called gonâ²dola car`. an open railroad freight car with low sides.
It turned out to be a sideshow operator from Illinois who displayed it for a time as the 'Ed Gein Ghoul Car' (See the car that hauled the dead from their graves!) Eventually, however, venues began to be nervous about such an attraction and the car vanished into history.