There's more. Here's a pic of the car from his SHOOBop video: https://files.catbox.moe/nsovos.PNG The red ’51 Merc custom shown in the mind-blowing Panama video, in between scenes of a presumably coke-smuggling biplane transforming into a flying David Lee Roth and some very un-provocative pole-dancing, is not the car named Panama. The red Mercury is Roth’s personal car (or its clone -- the first was built by George Barris, and the second, by Kustom Merc King Dick Dean). Dubbed “California Girl,” the low-riding four-door convertible appears in the music video for Roth's cover of that Beach Boys song and is the subject of legends of its own. In one, Roth raced it across the country to win a spur-of-the-moment bet, before or after mounting it on a late-model chassis (which would help explain the "power steering" reference in Panama). In a more recent, and probably more sober, telling of the tale, he had the car clandestinely flat-bedded for the long haul before driving the last leg of the trip. Depending on which strain of Van Halen lore you subscribe to, “Panama” is either the name of David Lee Roth’s 1969 Opel Kadett Caravan wagon or a drag racer he saw named “Panama Express.”